Example sentences of "of [noun] [modal v] be worth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anything you could take to slow or halt the onset of Aids would be worth knowing about . |
| 2 | A design on this sort of scale would be worth ten times the run-of-the-mill jobs she had completed just recently . |
| 3 | However , a cognitive therapy approach to helping the patient understand and reappraise her feelings of worthlessness may be worth trying ( Beck et al. 1979 ) . |
| 4 | Although this argument was also rejected the somewhat superficial reasoning employed by the court raises the question whether a further appeal to the Court of Appeal may be worth considering . |
| 5 | Your roll of wire will be worth an exploratory dig , tools become toys to be kicked around and chewed , and your jumper which you foolishly left hanging on the fence is now going to suffer a life-threatening crisis . |
| 6 | If you can not eat yoghurt , because of a sensitivity to milk , then commercial preparations of bacteria might be worth considering , but ask to see a bacteriological analysis showing how many live bacteria there are per gram ( there should be several million ) before buying . |