Example sentences of "be worth [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is an alternative to either of these courses which may be worth considering and that is that the Government should take the line that they have come to the conclusion that , while some restriction ought to be made in the infliction of the death penalty , the time has not yet come for its complete abolition . |
| 2 | It seems to me to be important enough to be worth tabling if that can be arranged . |
| 3 | It may be worth mentioning that some candidates achieve Grade " A " without mentioning any historian or writing down a single quotation . " |
| 4 | They may be able to order bricks of a particular type if they do n't have them in stock , or it may be worth investigating whether second-hand bricks are available from demolition contractors in your area . |
| 5 | At this point it 's worth mentioning that one of the best approaches to persuasion in any situation can be to ask yourself : ‘ What 's in it for them ? ’ and to consider what needs ( as mentioned earlier in this chapter ) you can meet . |
| 6 | While we had n't asked for a film sample it 's worth knowing that all bureau should be able to offer this service — it can save time and money at the printing end . |
| 7 | ( However , it 's worth remembering that many readers skip the advertisement sections . ) |
| 8 | It 's worth remembering that all drugs are open to abuse , and that people offer what they believe to be plausible explanations for such abuse : " To escape my problems ' ; " To relieve boredom " ; " To stay awake at parties ' ; " For self-confidence " ; " To be one of the crowd " ; " To help me get on with people " ; " To stop me worrying " ; " To become more creative " ; " To help me study all night " ; " It blows my mind " ; " For a pick-me-up " . |
| 9 | ( It 's worth noting that all of these experts are freelance and NOT available on the ‘ phone . |
| 10 | Finally , it 's worth noting that most colleges have an extensive range of services offered by the college or student union . |
| 11 | Although a range of sociological theories has suggested that crime is due to deprivation of one sort or another , it is worth stressing that many middle-class children also engage in delinquent behaviour . |
| 12 | It is worth stressing that all of this teaching is done by the prisoners themselves rather than by prison officers . |
| 13 | It is worth stressing that both modelling and experimental results show that Xdisp can become strongly positive in these cases ( up to +2Å ) indicating that the rotation of the phosphate groups towards the minor groove pushes the base pairs away and into the major groove . |
| 14 | It is worth stressing that this study did not arise out of a leisured academic interest but out of an urgent need for material to use therapeutically with highly-disturbed young people . |
| 15 | Finally , at a time when the demand for public accountability has never been greater , it is worth remembering that many museums receive substantial grants towards what is supposed to be their educational provision for the general public . |
| 16 | Whilst the sale itself can be effected only by acte notarie , it is worth remembering that many of the contracts drawn by sellers ' Agents are prepared without a sight of the title deeds . |
| 17 | It is worth remembering that many contemporary historians using conventional paper archives are already very much dependent upon archivists for access to material , and for guidance in identifying and selecting sources . |
| 18 | Well intentioned as the EEC goal is , it is worth remembering that four out of five cars would be unable to run if the lead were removed . |
| 19 | It is worth remembering that simple sentences are more likely to be grammatically correct than long , involved ones . |
| 20 | Finally it is worth remembering that general SVQs can be taken alongside other ‘ extra ’ modules , such as foreign languages , or modules requiring a higher level of competence . |
| 21 | It is worth remembering that one of Ælfric 's patrons , and the founder of his abbeys of Cerne and Eynsham , was the nobleman Ætheær who may have retired from court rather than face the growing influence of Eadric Streona . |
| 22 | It is worth remembering that most accidents happen within a few miles of home . |
| 23 | Perhaps it is worth remembering that most steam trains on the mainline need support from modern forms of traction . |
| 24 | It is worth remembering that most editorial staff will not be in the office much before 10.00 or 11.00 am . |
| 25 | It is worth remembering that most people cope quite adequately with the practical problems of old age if they have financial security and decent housing , and it is on the provision of these we should concentrate . |
| 26 | It is probable that one can not properly speak of such a thing as a career as a mufti in the same sense that one can of a career as a muderris or a kadi ; but to the degree that there does appear to have been some hierarchical gradation of muftiliks , it is worth emphasizing that these did not lead to the office of the Mufti , which rather , from the sixteenth century on , was approached by the route of the medreses , mevleviyet kadiliks and kazaskerliks . |
| 27 | Though this section looks only at government regional policies and labour mobility policies , it is worth mentioning that these represent only a small proportion of government expenditure on aid to industry . |
| 28 | This is worth emphasising since monetary control regulations often include references to ratios of various sorts . |
| 29 | Nevertheless it is worth considering whether some implicit model of accountability underlies all forms of evaluation whatever their stated purposes ( an issue that was raised at the very beginning of Chapter 1 ) . |
| 30 | It is worth saying that this Bill has nothing to do with privatisation or the Rothschild report ; it will give the tools to British Coal so that it can compete successfully for the coal contract post-April 1993 . |