Example sentences of "[being] worth " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Raskolnikov was to have mounted an assault of something like Grand Inquisitor proportions , if he was to have expatiated on the whole God business not being worth the pain of one misused child , then the time was n't ripe ; we must wait for Ivan Karamazov . |
| 2 | Minto airily spoke of being worth £1,000 and able to raise a further £2,000 as a mortgage , but this was not the case . |
| 3 | Weapons and armour , measured in the equivalent of cows , have been quoted as being worth as much as : |
| 4 | It 's this version which is now recognised as the rarest Dylan record in the world and valued in Neal Umpred 's Goldmine Price Guide To Collectible Record Albums as being worth $10,000 , though a bid of over $12,000 eventually secured a deal . |
| 5 | The package is so complicated that it could , in fact , be described as being worth almost anything between zero and $13 billion , depending on definitions . |
| 6 | Not long ago she had begun to talk of life not being worth living again and she had demanded that Harry should tell her , once and for all , why it was worth living . |
| 7 | Industry encroached , roads ribboned , and the previously attractive landscape became dreary wasteland as farmers abandoned the small cut-off parcels of arable land as no longer being worth the effort . |
| 8 | Overall the Calculator accessory is the only one that comes close to being worth its price , the others are either too basic or liable to crash to be considered seriously . |
| 9 | I began to think erotically of Alison again ; of the dirty week-end pleasures of having her in some Athens hotel bedroom ; of birds in the hand being worth more than birds in the bush ; and with better motives , of her loneliness , her perpetual mixed-up loneliness . |
| 10 | The remaining car being worth £450 , the seller 's loss on the resale was £850 minus ( £450 plus £350 ) equals £50 . |
| 11 | Its biggest project was the Leith Docks swing-bridge over the River Liffey in Dublin in 1879 , but despite the contract being worth £8,143 , when the bridge first swung open Skerne Iron Works ' finances were swaying perilously . |
| 12 | Yet the few fish which manage to return to Scottish rivers are estimated as being worth several hundreds of pounds each to your economy because of the revenue they create . |