Example sentences of "[pron] it [is] worth " in BNC.

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1 Questions which it is worth keeping in mind when reading the remaining chapters in this book would be the following :
2 There may be some pleasures for which it is worth risking one 's life but to do so for a cigarette is an illustration of the sheer insanity of addictive disease .
3 I can promise you it 's worth insisting . ’
4 worth twenty pounds a year or whatever it is worth
5 He does not , however , retract his proposal that the precepts of the imagist manifesto are still the best rules of thumb for ‘ the neophyte ’ , the beginner in his ‘ prentice-work ; and for what it is worth my own experience in the workshop certainly bears that out .
6 My own opinion — for what it is worth in view of the two cases above referred to — is that trustees are the proper persons to be assessed in all cases in which the income of the trust estate received by them , or to which they are entitled , is not tax-deducted at source ; and that — in the case of income of the trust estate which is tax deducted at source — they could not be heard to ask repayment of the tax on the plea that the income did not arise or accrue to them but to others , whether such others were income-beneficiaries or capital-beneficiaries .
7 We were just watching 4 What It 's Worth about all those people who go on holiday to the sunny Mediterranean , having booked a sea view , and come back with gastroenteritis from living over the dustbins and now want their money back , when Elinor came running up the garden path closely followed by Nigel .
8 We had these two things , we had to try to get women involved so I had women fronting For What It 's Worth ( Penny Junor , Sally Hawkins ) .
9 But nonetheless — and for what it 's worth — this obsession with number seems to me sad , reductive and weird , and I wonder where it comes from ?
10 For what it 's worth my own advice would be that we I erm as you remember , increased the rental for the er coffee rooms from four thousand pounds when I er took over the post of chief executive and er to seven thousand five hundred in July eighty nine and we 've increased that yearly to a sum of twenty one thousand one hundred and fifty pounds per annum er from the first of August nineteen ninety one .
11 For what it 's worth
12 Me my my view is this , for what it 's worth , Er we have two sacraments in the Methodist church , Baptism and Holy Communion .
13 ‘ I wonder what it 's worth now ? ’ mused Lili , scandalizing my mother .
14 Erm for what it 's worth , I 'll give you my suggestions about what we should do as far as ticket prices are concerned er , having taken in a view of the most important factor of the treasurer 's comments but also bearing in mind that we did have high recurring expenses this year , which wo n't apply in future and we 're not here to make money .
15 For what it 's worth , my opinion in property , and my opinion now , is that we need to retain if we can , a viable unit for County Farms .
16 Joan for what it 's worth erm and this is just something you might want to think about a mobile is worth its weight in gold .
17 I have to confess , for what it 's worth , I do not really like Lewis Carroll , Alice through the Looking Glass , and Alice in Wonderland , they bore me stiff !
18 People want to know it 's cash value , they want to know what it does erm what it 's worth in very practical terms .
19 Monetarily , I have n't any idea what it 's worth , er it 's not everybody 's cup of tea , it is a cockfighting chair , but it 's very very interesting .
20 Monetarily , I have n't any idea what it 's worth , er it 's not everybody 's cup of tea , it is a cockfighting chair and it 's not particularly beautiful but it 's very very interesting .
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