Example sentences of "[verb] [det] be worth " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Maybe they did n't think that was worth a car . ’ |
| 2 | Minister Michael Howard says this is worth paying because global warming is ‘ an issue of concern to everyone ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ What would a rap like that be worth ? ’ |
| 4 | What have I got that 's worth stealing ? ’ |
| 5 | Yes , I would have thought this was worth a hundred only . ’ |
| 6 | And what in God 's name , Wexford thought flabbergasted , did Hatton have in his power to do that was worth five hundred pounds ? |
| 7 | Keynes thought this was worth the whole of the rest of the White Paper put together . |
| 8 | What we 've done , won one of the points I think that is worth er making perhaps is that on er over the last few years we 've seen a complete change in world export philosophy where not only are the Russians exporting all over the place but clearly er there are a number of western aircraft in different parts of the world and therefore what we have also done is to , in comparing er our aircraft against other western ones , we 've also looked at them as potential threats because it 's possible that er erm western aircraft in certain hands could end up being used against us so we have also compared those . |
| 9 | I think that is worth paying for . |
| 10 | Anyway I think that 's worth checking . |
| 11 | I think that 's worth briefing . |
| 12 | part of it , have a look at it , Sandra , if you pa if you pass it onto each other and then just say that I think that 's worth getting cos we do have the money now er to start and look at things like that . |
| 13 | I think that 's worth the effort , yes . |
| 14 | But by the time the DTI and other City institutions wake up to the severity of Norton 's plight , will there by anything left that 's worth saving ? |
| 15 | ‘ Qui plus fait , mie[u]x vault ’ ( ‘ Who does most is worth most ’ ) , the refrain in the Livre de chevalerie written in the middle of the fourteenth century by Geoffroi de Charny , the standard-bearer of King John II of France at the battle of Poitiers , who preferred to stand and die rather than run away in the moment of defeat , aptly sums up the chivalrous attitude to war . |
| 16 | Get , but , get this , however , if you have n't got a twelve hundred , and get this , version and control yourself , the fact that you 're missing much is worth it |
| 17 | Do you feel at this point in time that it 's all been worth it ? |