Example sentences of "be [adv] worth [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | feelings such as anger , worry and guilt are only worth having if they provoke you into doing something effective . |
| 2 | Look out for similar promotions elsewhere and even if there 's no discounts , the right products are still worth having if they help you do a good job . |
| 3 | Th the reality is that elsewhere in West Sussex erm the business allocations are erm reasonably generous or indeed slightly over generous and er therefore er overall the concern i is very much reduced erm but it might also be just worth mentioning that erm although er there is clearly an opportunity for this committee , this planning authority , the strategic planning authority to , to question figures of this nature and to challenge local plans if they are significantly adrift erm that has to be done in the context of the the local plan enquiry by er in the form of an objection almost and past experience has been that the inspectors and the Secretary of State have allowed a certain amount of leeway depending on the erm proportional er deviation from erm th the figures that were in the structure plan and depending on what is happening elsewhere and on the state of the economy and whilst it would be something which erm it was possible to prepare a case for erm i it is o on , on the balance of erm er the various things that are , that are taking place in West Sussex that the recommendation i is , is put to you that and it seems to be the reasonable course of action , particularly bearing in mind the downturn in , in er erm the er business activity and the er amount of developments taking place . |
| 4 | Signor Matarazzo personally looks after the comfort of his guests , and , if you decide to sample his restaurant , you can be certain that whatever is on the menu of the day will be well worth eating and reasonably priced . |
| 5 | That is one of the NI 's most famous phrases , which would be well worth updating and remembering every year . |
| 6 | This enterprising tour should be well worth following as it is the first time cricketers of this age from South Africa have toured in England . |
| 7 | They are a race of roses that are well worth exploring and are yet another example of the inexhaustible resources of the rose to come up with something new and different . |
| 8 | There are some very distinctive and interesting roses to be found among the species which are well worth exploring and looking for , as you will see from the following examples . |
| 9 | These are well worth considering since listening is such an important activity in language learning . |
| 10 | Er it 's thirty six pound a year to be a member there but if you are a keen sportsman their facilities are well worth using because it 's a very very good sports centre indeed . |
| 11 | ‘ Having decided to make it a musical , ’ wrote Alexander Stuart in Films and Filming , ‘ William Sterling should have had his team work on the songs until they were really worth including until they added something to the tale . ’ |
| 12 | The only problem is it 's only worth buying if you 're buying a reasonable sized piece . |
| 13 | This approach is only worth attempting if full ab initio methods are used , as semi-empirical methods such as CNDO , INDO and MNDO are incapable of dealing with ions in states which have incompletely filled core orbitals . |
| 14 | It is perhaps worth remembering that both Epstein , Akhmatova and Nevinson knew him as solitary and an intensely private man . |
| 15 | It is perhaps worth remembering that the Beveridge Report was published as early as 1942 ; it embodied the aspirations of so many who had been disappointed by the failure of Lloyd George 's ‘ land fit for heroes to live in ’ to materialise . |
| 16 | Finally , and outside the university context , it is perhaps worth mentioning that the Camden library service has a good loan collection of African writing . |
| 17 | For those who have never seen or handled one of the Miller Dictionaries , it is perhaps worth mentioning that the eighth edition ( 1768 ) weighs 17½ lbs ( c.8kg ) , contains 333 folio sheets and measures 430 × 90 mm ( 666 sides of text ) . |
| 18 | It is perhaps worth mentioning and passing on through SMT that the Partnership Sub Committee of the National Committee discussed this at their first meeting and made the following points ( reflected in the Minute of SCAC 19th March 1991 ) . |
| 19 | As to the application of legal procedures deriving from Napoleonic law , it is perhaps worth considering that arrangements formulated in the days of the horse and cart may not be appropriate to a supersonic age . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This is only a metaphor , but the point is perhaps worth making that the insistence on ‘ independent contractor ’ status on the part of the GPs and local competition for patients ( which necessitates collective regulation through ‘ professional ethics and etiquette ’ ) , weakened their bargaining position with both their hospital colleagues and with Government . |
| 22 | Just how remote this stance in fact is from the aesthetic is a matter for further debate , but it is perhaps worth interpolating that the implied valorisation of the products of these engaged avant-gardes as a function of their engagement is defeasible . |
| 23 | Elizabeth 's famous Armada speech — ‘ I know that I have the body of a weak and feeble woman , but I have the heart of a king and a king of England too ’ — and Mary 's much-quoted desire to live the life of a soldier , wearing a Glasgow buckler and sleeping under the stars , are testimony to one ( it is perhaps worth adding that the context for Elizabeth was fighting Spain , for Mary fighting her half-brother ) . |
| 24 | It is perhaps worth adding that the phases we have identified are the ones which the self-conscious discipline of International Relations itself regards as significant . |
| 25 | In this context , it is perhaps worth noting that the body politic oscillates between two contradictory modes of address towards the civil population . |
| 26 | ( It is perhaps worth noting that if the whole-tone scale had been that which begins on D♭ the degree of conflict would have been less . ) |
| 27 | I think there 's a third fact that you touched on earlier that I think it 's just worth mentioning and that is that we know it 's also a genetic pre-disposition to anorexia nervosa , in other words , we know that in certain families it is a disorder that will run from one generation to another . |
| 28 | It is nevertheless worth emphasizing that the estimates of population , storage capacity , agricultural yields and food consumption are all based on incomplete evidence ; so , interesting though this line of thought may be , no conclusions can be reached yet . |
| 29 | In such situations , it is always worth considering whether it is safer to have another launch and fly the glider to the hangar . |
| 30 | De Niro is always worth watching and here the mixture of confusion and hurt pride he brings to his character 's plight is very convincing . |