Example sentences of "would [be] worth " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be worth knowing how many exhibition visitors obeyed these examination instructions . |
| 2 | What I am saying is that a lot of the common English objections to Ezra Pound have substance , and would be worth taking seriously , if only we could be sure that they were advanced in good faith , in humility , and with compassion . |
| 3 | The need for an element of surprise is also glaring , and it would be worth Cox 's monitoring the John Sheridan situation at Forest . |
| 4 | City analysts have put a price tag of as much as £60m on Hargreaves and some potential bidders , including the Irish group CRH , have intimated that the business would be worth more to an existing player in the market than a newcomer . |
| 5 | Undaunted I was sure it would be worth the effort of breaking them in — and it was . |
| 6 | He projected himself as a man who would be worth listening to . |
| 7 | If a performer is also a writer , then this society would be worth joining . |
| 8 | ( This meant borrowing money and suffering a lot of hardships ; but they thought it would be worth it , because it would mean they could not be so easily discriminated against . ) |
| 9 | A 1964 pound would be worth £8.96 today , so the £1228.46 for our Austin-Healey ( including overdrive , wire wheels , heater , telescopic steering column and seat belts ) equates to £11,006 . |
| 10 | McCloy would want the lion 's share of whatever the load realised and if Hatton , a mere decoy , got five hundred , the three henchmen would be worth at least five hundred apiece . |
| 11 | Now that would be worth having . |
| 12 | I did n't know what a kidney was , that it would be worth money . |
| 13 | I did n't know what a kidney was , that it would be worth money . |
| 14 | A similar boost to the imports of Eastern Europe ( excluding the Soviet Union ) would be worth some $7.5billion a year for five years . |
| 15 | None of this would be worth remark if the narrative carried us along by virtue of its own strength , but it hardly does . |
| 16 | Datastream 's end of decade calculations show that a £100 investment in the shiny yellow metal made at the beginning of January 1980 would be worth just £78 . |
| 17 | Treasury sums said the rebate would be worth £4m , but would cost more to fix . |
| 18 | That move alone would be worth around £2m . |
| 19 | Perhaps it would be worth buying a few feminine trifles to leave lying around ? |
| 20 | ‘ A snap of their slogan in national newspapers would be worth tens of thousands of pounds to them and our costs are peanuts next to that , ’ said Andrew . |
| 21 | The average outstanding debt on a credit card in 1979 was £95 , compared with £292 today — but , at 1979 rates , this would be worth about £124 . |
| 22 | We reckoned , however , that the privacy would be worth the extravagance . |
| 23 | The affronted lover tried to interrupt , to insist that Gaby was under his protection and that the arrangement was impossible , but Modigliani insisted that he had painted several portraits of Madame in the nude that would be worth ‘ thousands ’ one day and pressed one on her luckless lover . |
| 24 | ‘ If Czechoslovakia could persuade its utilities to buy efficient light bulbs , ’ Chandler says , ‘ then it would be worth building a factory to manufacture them . ’ |
| 25 | It would be worth doing even if one was n't paid anything at all . |
| 26 | I do not know of any direct evidence that sexually transmitted diseases increase the libido of sufferers , but I conjecture that it would be worth looking into . |
| 27 | In such cases it would be worth the trouble of introducing worms from elsewhere . |
| 28 | ( A band of this stature would be worth a costly legal battle ) . |
| 29 | Sunderland wanted £4,000 and their manager , Bob Kyle , said it would be worth it for the twenty goals Buchan was bound to score in his first season at Highbury . |
| 30 | Inspection of the scatterplot suggested that it would be worth trying to fit a line ; the task is to find one which will come as near as possible to the data points . |