Example sentences of "[that] it be worth [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | What was interesting about that was that at the time John Brown got into financial difficulties the banks and institutional shareholders took a tough but very constructive view that it was worth helping the company through a reconstruction rather than forcing it into liquidation , which had been an attitude prevalent some years earlier . |
| 32 | That evening , a consortium of dealers led the slightly worse for wear director to a riverside wine bar in an attempt to convince him that it was worth staying with the company . |
| 33 | They did however feel that it was worth coordinating the acquisition of reference material and the retention of periodical titles . |
| 34 | Doubts were expressed in Washington ; but in spite of Griffin 's assertion that the wave of communist risings in Indo-China were not economic , social or ideological , rather they were predominantly nationalistic , he concluded that it was because the Bao Dai government was itself so intensely nationalist that it was worth supporting . |
| 35 | He took the piece of paper away with him , the name filled in above the pre-signed certificate , and showed it to Barnett who was pleased and who believed that it was worth having . |
| 36 | Labour 's preoccupation in future will be to begin the long task of reconverting such people to the view many of them held in Clement Attlee 's day : that it was worth paying more in tax to produce better public services and a more just postwar society . |