Example sentences of "[noun] would [vb infin] [be] worth " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was only a modest puff of inflation by subsequent standards : by 1974 the 1950 pound would have been worth only one-third of a pound . |
| 2 | At yesterday 's prices that stake would have been worth £7,900 . |
| 3 | When he had finished the hearings quickly wound up with no incisive questioning of the last three witnesses , Shultz , Weinberger and Meese , although their tales would have been worth hearing ; the committees , after all , had contracted to finish by early August , whether or not the full story had been told . |
| 4 | The contract would have been worth five million pounds . |
| 5 | Cliff 's contribution to the Palace cause would have been worth recording if it had stopped there at the end of 1962–63 , with Palace safely in mid-table but , twelve months later , and courtesy of 20 goals from the big man himself , we were back in Division Two after an absence of 39 years . |
| 6 | So far as I know , she never gave a coherent account to anybody of her recollections , and there is no reason why she should have done ; but just as any scrap of information about Shakespeare — from anybody , a servant , amanuensis , ostler , for instance — would be of the greatest interest , so a testimony from one so close as Miss Hinson would have been worth having . |
| 7 | ‘ A few years ago this painting would have been worth about £3 million , now it is a third of that . ’ |
| 8 | Nor would the letting of the house at £400 a month be advisable , because the accommodation in the hotel that the Povah family would need is worth considerably more in terms of income . |
| 9 | Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ? |