Example sentences of "worth [verb] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Nothing is worth keeping because no love went into its making and stainless surfaces can never mellow with use .
2 At this juncture Chairman er it is I think worth reemphasizing that the County Council is progressing a further selective alteration to the structure plan , not a fundamental review of the strategic approach or indeed the policies which give effect to it .
3 It is well worth checking that the pupil 's chair and desk or table make this possible .
4 It is always worth remembering that no man 's credit is as good as his money .
5 It is worth remembering that a sparrow has more vertebrae in its neck than a giraffe .
6 It is worth remembering that the rarity of ancient coins can not increase , only decrease , so caution is advised when collecting them .
7 I am certain they are not , and it is worth remembering that the majority did not vote Conservative on 9 April .
8 It is worth remembering that the distance between the two Pointers in the Great Bear , Dubhe and Merak , is about 5 degrees .
9 It is also worth remembering that the way to hold someone 's attention is to look at them .
10 However , in such cases it is worth remembering that the product may be available more cheaply elsewhere and may thus reduce the credit needed !
11 However , in such cases it is worth remembering that the product may be available more cheaply elsewhere and may thus reduce the credit needed !
12 But while it is true that some Tory rebels would oppose any motion proposed by the Prime Minister , it is worth remembering that the vote is still about the Maastricht Treaty .
13 Indeed , it is worth remembering that the effect of birth order may vary with maternal age .
14 It is , of course , worth remembering that the region west of the Mississippi was still comparatively undeveloped .
15 Yet it is worth remembering that the line of movement skirting the margin of the Taklamakan Desert is amply documented in Chinese history .
16 Reference has , of course , already been made to the fetva given by Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi sanctioning the execution of Seyh Bedreddin In Mehmed I 's reign : with respect to the general question of the nature of in the early state , it is worth remarking that no clue is given as to why Burhaneddin was selected beyond the fact that " he was at the side of Sultan Mehmed " in Serez when Seyh Bedreddin was brought .
17 Benjamin ( 1979b , p. 226 ) wrote of the surrealist movement that ‘ life only seemed worth living where the threshold between waking and sleeping was worn away in everyone as by the steps of multitudinous images flooding back and forth , language only seemed itself where sound and image , image and sound interpenetrated with such felicity that no chink was left for the penny-in-the-slot called ‘ meaning ’ ’ .
18 Benjamin ( 1979b , p. 226 ) wrote of the surrealist movement that ‘ life only seemed worth living where the threshold between waking and sleeping was worn away in everyone as by the steps of multitudinous images flooding back and forth , language only seemed itself where sound image , image and sound interpenetrated with such felicity that no chink was left for the penny-in. the-slot called ‘ meaning ’ ’ .
19 While this increase is startling , it is worth noting that a concern over ‘ crime waves ’ , and rising levels of juvenile crime in particular , is not a new phenomenon .
20 It is worth noting that a difference in temperature is the same for both scales .
21 For the longer term , it is worth noting that a number of the member states have a more independent system of audit , under which a company 's accounts are audited , not by its own accountants , but by auditors who primarily owe a public interest duty .
22 It is worth noting that a number of subjects did not answer the b question in terms of truth or falsehood of fact , but according to what the speaker , in asking the preceding question , had appeared to presuppose .
23 It is worth noting that the increase in the acreage of wet gravel pit and reservoirs available to the species for nesting since 1962 , particularly at Chichester , has not resulted in any significant increase in nesting pairs .
24 It is worth noting that the word " religion " either does not naturally feature in some religions , or is regarded by many religious people with considerable disapproval .
25 It is further worth noting that the lack of confidence in the police by black people is now reaching other parts of the criminal justice system , notably the courts .
26 It is worth noting that the correlation coefficient between realized and forecast returns for this broker was 0.12 which is unexceptional by the standard of other studies .
27 By way of background , it is worth noting that the Church of England owns 16,700 churches , of which no less than 8,500 are pre-Reformation , and 12,000 are statutorily listed ( 2,675 in the highest grade ) .
28 This would seem to mark Alcester as something apart from the general category , and it is worth noting that the site lies almost equidistant , as the crow flies , from the major cities of Wroxeter , Leicester , Gloucester and Cirencester .
29 In this context , it is perhaps worth noting that the body politic oscillates between two contradictory modes of address towards the civil population .
30 It is also worth noting that the prevalence of H pylori in patients treated with NSAID was 34 of 64 ( 53% ) compated with 43 of 60 ( 72% ) ( p<0.05 ) in patients not taking NSAID , using the standard tests ( see Table III ) .
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