Example sentences of "worth [v-ing] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before getting to grips with the corporatism as such , it is worth looking at the idea of the local state . |
| 2 | then it 's worth looking at the idea . |
| 3 | It is worth looking at the way the Soviet leader 's behaviour changed in the course of the crisis . |
| 4 | ‘ But would it perhaps just be worth looking at the petrol gauge ? ’ |
| 5 | It is , however , worth looking at the parent fish when spawning is completed to check that they have not been damaged . |
| 6 | So it is worth recalling at the outset of this discussion that it is in these senses that the female cross-dresser of the early seventeenth century could be described as an ‘ invert ’ or ‘ pervert ’ , and hardly at all in the sense of those words as coined and popularized by the nineteenth-century sexologists and , later , psychoanalysis . |
| 7 | It seems worth stating at the outset that there are two ways geographical research in this general area can proceed . |
| 8 | To one person this is an amusing fantasy , worth mentioning at the breakfast table , perhaps , but little more than that ; to the other it is a horrific nightmare which lingers in the memory for days . |
| 9 | Since some of what is in people 's heads is taken from social science , there is a complication worth mentioning at the start . |