Example sentences of "worth [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And it 's always worth remembering about the Crimean erm episode that Austria in essence intervenes on the side er er intervenes not so much on the side of Britain and France but against Russia .
2 To give an idea of the syllabus for an LLB student it is worth looking at the typical curriculum in individual years .
3 What really drives the case for co-operative R&D ventures is the existence of technological spillovers , and it is , therefore , worth looking at the empirical literature on different methods of appropriation , the determinants of imitation costs and imitation times , and estimates of the size of spillovers .
4 It is also worth looking at the smaller , regional building societies .
5 It is also worth looking at the smaller , regional building societies .
6 It is also worth looking at the smaller , regional building societies .
7 He hemmed and hawed and rambled through a number of subjects before making a sideways approach to what he really seemed to need , which was any useful or memorable detail that would be worth noting about the previous night 's client .
8 It should be worth waiting for the last in which Mick Ryan 's Les Amis ( 3.40 ) is well drawn and must be fancied on her two lengths defeat of Quinta Royale at Folkestone .
9 During the last few years , Yugoslavia has been running a substantial surplus in its trade with the Soviet Union because , while there has been a sharp fall in the quantity of oil imported from the Soviet Union , as well as a fall in its price , the Yugoslavs have been unable to find other products worth buying from the Soviet Union .
10 For a somewhat less biased view of the global scene it 's worth sending for the latest Report on the State of World Population from the UN 's Fund for Population Activities ( 485 , Lexington Ave .
11 I told Northcliffe that if his people would make enquiries at our Central Office , he would find that our nightly regiment of speakers was at least as well worth reporting as the Radical contingent , but that I realized that from the Press point of view , no doubt , our speakers did not play up to the reporters by handing them their speeches in advance , and by other tricks of the kind to which the Radical orators have recourse .
12 Nevertheless , the topic is undeniably an important one and it is worth sketching in the legal rules .
13 In Daniel Waley 's admirable Italian City-Republics there is a map featuring some sixty or seventy Italian towns with a history worth recording in the mid and late Middle Ages ; of these roughly half could reasonably be called ‘ hill towns ’ , and most of them lie in Umbria and Tuscany .
14 When Neill and Buchanan challenge what is many boxing fans ' most cherished theory , it is worth delving into the social backgrounds of all the world champions and many leading contenders .
15 It is worth knowing about the following aspects of your teenager 's life :
16 And they know everybody who 's worth knowing in the househunting jungle — which makes them the ideal people to recruit the rest of your team .
17 They certainly will not go out of their way to be critical — and if they do they are not worth knowing in the first place !
18 Such people are n't worth knowing in the first place .
19 Er now I I would expect , I do n't know whether it 's worth talking about the general principle that we 're talking about different routes here and as i understand , the purpose today was to talk about the need for relief roads and I would expect at some future date , at a public enquiry when er I 'm defending er the outer blue er the outer northern route , to defend why that was chosen as opposed to an inner northern route and not rely upon the key diagram in the structure plan and the stars that are shown on there .
20 Whatever hardware you choose , it is essential that it is securely fixed , and it is worth thinking about the actual fixing point at your initial planning stage .
21 There are numerous cloughs worth exploring in the Dark Peak , but some of the most impressive can be linked by a demanding outing starting from Greenfield on the west of Black Hill , taking in major cloughs on Bleaklow and Kinder before finally scrambling down the head of the Grindsbrook above Edale .
22 Penwith and Kerrier hundreds were obviously poorer than the eastern parts of the shire ; a high proportion of men were taxed on wages who had not been thought worth mentioning in the earlier survey , many of them poor immigrants variously described as tinners or labourers .
23 It started as a movement , that is again the critics that is that again the critics picked it up and made something of it worth discussing in the mid-sixties .
24 For the moment it is worth concentrating on the shared concern for speech which is typical of both the written arts and , increasingly , of sociology .
25 As ta ; tends to unity the types become progressively more far sighted , so to ensure that it is still not worth engaging in the permanent imitation of z = 0 the benefits from following the equilibrium strategy are increased .
26 It is worth working through the logical notation , however , for ease of reference later .
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