Example sentences of "worth [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | These whiskers are sensitive not only to touch but to taste , so the fish can tell what on the river bed in front of its mouth is worth eating and what is not . |
| 2 | I think also you would expect children who are really quite young , well before the first year , to be showing social interest in other adults around , and if they 're not it might be worth checking that there is n't some problem with the child . |
| 3 | I think also you would expect children who are really quite young , well before the first year , to be showing social interest in other adults around , and if they 're not it might be worth checking that there is n't some problem with the child . |
| 4 | Yet the high-momentum electrons and positrons observed must eventually be explained somehow and it is perhaps worth remarking that it is not new in physics for novel phenomena to be observed when looking for something else . |
| 5 | From what you told me , you seemed to feel the opposite : life might have been worth living if he was n't there . ’ |
| 6 | Either the place was worth searching or it was n't . |
| 7 | It is worth noting that there are not a few cases where constructions containing postverbal adjectives are equivalent to different structures having the same subject and the same adjectival and verbal properties , but with the former now in ordinary predicative position and the latter replaced by an adverb : ( 61 ) Mario seemed regretful Mario was apparently regretful ( 62 ) the sharks remain dangerous the sharks are still dangerous This is exactly what could have been expected , given structure ( 47 ) . |
| 8 | It is worth noting that it was not the Committee 's objective to assert directly the primacy of English over classics , but instead to capture for their subject some of the cultural authority invested in classics for an altered social and educational purpose . |
| 9 | And , well , I just felt it had been worth trying but it was n't going to work . |
| 10 | It 's worth mentioning that you 're not automatically insured on dry ski slopes so it 's worth arranging some personal cover — accidents are n't especially common but you never know . |
| 11 | I thought that was very interesting , for Richard had obviously never thought it worth mentioning that she was n't white . |