Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] be worth while " in BNC.

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1 Population screening programmes may be worth while .
2 A highly sensitive immunohistochemical technique was used ( avidin-biotin complex ) and it is unlikely that any improvement on the methodology would be worth while .
3 Hall argued , however , that even this least satisfactory outcome would be worth while if it meant some of the long-term unemployed in the inner cities obtained jobs , and were thus able to climb up the skills and income levels .
4 Regardless of the physical relevance ( or otherwise ! ) of some of these studies , this process will be worth while as long as the study of chaotic ordinary differential equations remains the Pandora 's box it is today .
5 Rapid testing of women at risk may be worth while
6 In animals much smaller doses of morphine will prevent sensitisation of the nervous system to pain than are necessary to suppress it , indicating that pre-emptive analgesia might be worth while .
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