Example sentences of "[vb past] it worth [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the book 's greatest association interest is that another , and greater , poet found it worth studying for its content and craftsmanship . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , he found it worth enquiring , as Presidents of the BAAS were wont to do , whether ‘ sufficient facilities for education in science exist or are in progress in our country ; and whether Government or other important bodies provide sufficient encouragement and reward for its prosecution ’ . |
| 3 | Someone once felt it worth fortifying ; beneath grey-white nun Can , a castle stands at the roadside , formidable and hostile even in bright warm sunshine . |
| 4 | Nourse LJ thought it worth mentioning Lord Blackburn 's comment , based on Blackstone , that ‘ the sheriff also was bound to raise the hue and cry , and call out the posse comitatus of the county whenever it was necessary for any police purposes ; in so doing he was acting for the Crown ’ . |
| 5 | THE UNDERTAKER 'S CLOTHES had been found on Tuesday evening , and if the news reached Fleet Street news editors , none of them thought it worth mentioning . |
| 6 | She did n't attach any importance to it at the time and it was only when she heard we were interested in anyone who had seen Garland between Saturday and Wednesday that she thought it worth mentioning . ’ |
| 7 | I thought it worth checking to see just how far this had gone . |
| 8 | After seeing the RA Salas label in the last issue , I thought it worth showing my contribution to further illustrate our free subliminal advertising campaign . |
| 9 | It is disappointing that so few teachers thought it worth attending to express their views either on the resolutions put forward or to raise other matters . |
| 10 | Gerald Seymour-Strachey 's name coming to the forefront of the picture so unexpectedly made it worth looking more closely at him — in the past as well as the present . |
| 11 | This would all have been uninhabited malarial marshland until the post-war boom made it worth draining . |
| 12 | What made it worth recording several centuries later was that Ella was successful ; for the next fifteen years or so he established his authority in the south by force of arms , firmly ‘ pacifying ’ recalcitrant Britons . |
| 13 | After a Goodwood win last May Brittain considered it worth letting him take his chance in the Budweiser Irish Derby in which he finished eighth to St Jovite and Dr Devious . |