Example sentences of "[adj] be worth " in BNC.
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| 1 | The current orders outstanding are worth £540 million . |
| 2 | The mathematics of this are worth contemplating — 27½ hours a week , 1100 hours in 365 days , about one eighth of a calendar year . |
| 3 | Roger , Lord North , admitted that as a subsidy commissioner he had let men off lightly in Cambridgeshire : everyone was known to be worth ten times his assessment in goods and six times in land ; some were worth twenty or thirty times their assessments . |
| 4 | ‘ A Marine is worth ten ordinary soldiers , Valence , ’ Tundrish quickly continued . |
| 5 | Many models can be fitted with double doors , so this is worth checking , too . |
| 6 | This is worth remembering if your employer tries to justify giving you a raw deal by interpreting a stringent contract of employment harshly , eg by insisting you move your place of work at short notice and without financial help from Leeds to Birmingham , as in one case — even where this is within the terms of an express contractual mobility clause . |
| 7 | Minister Michael Howard says this is worth paying because global warming is ‘ an issue of concern to everyone ’ . |
| 8 | A pentagram of solid gold lies on one table , wrapped in black silk ; this is worth 600 GCs . |
| 9 | This is worth considering . |
| 10 | This is worth unravelling , even at the expense of a brief excursion into the mathematical realm of complex numbers . |
| 11 | A small identity card is also issued to each member and this is worth the price of subscription alone . |
| 12 | ‘ This is worth it . |
| 13 | Do you really believe all this is worth it ? ’ |
| 14 | The best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour and this is worth keeping in mind as part of the assessment of risk . |
| 15 | This is worth emphasising since monetary control regulations often include references to ratios of various sorts . |
| 16 | And all and another thing I tell you th this this is worth knowing I 've seen you wo n't credit it but I 've seen a rowing boat in Street . |
| 17 | The Americans , who are inclined to guess high , reckon that all this is worth $4 billion-$5 billion a year . |
| 18 | However , to someone facing the weak poverty trap , and again with the illustrative numbers above , this is worth only 30 per cent of £40 , i.e. £12 , because the explicit tax rate applies only to the net-of-transfer income ; i.e. . |
| 19 | This is worth clearing up on the list now , before anything is sent , so what d'y'all think ? |
| 20 | You know I mean , you know people have got these beautiful big houses like Lacydere Well this is worth two hundred you know hundred and eighty five it 's got ta be . |
| 21 | And erm I always think it 's a bit funny about pass marks because I do n't think you know , this is worth fifty percent and then I think what 's a , now what 's the pass mer mark ? |
| 22 | This is worth twenty five quid . |
| 23 | The law says suggesting someone may be homosexual is worth £200,000 damages . |
| 24 | They are extremely special , are produced at great cost , and it is doubtful that the mere pleasure their harmony gives to a selected happy few is worth such large public expenditure . |
| 25 | The Lynx 2 is worth £99.99 and comes complete with a Batman Returns cart guaranteed to keep you occupied for hours on end . |
| 26 | For the 100-cow herd this was worth £20,000 a year . |
| 27 | Keynes thought this was worth the whole of the rest of the White Paper put together . |
| 28 | Yes , I would have thought this was worth a hundred only . ’ |
| 29 | According to his estimate , the result of perusing estate agents ' windows in Ipswich and Sudbury , Wyvis Hall by the end of 1972 was worth about £23,000 . |
| 30 | Some exported birds are endangered and as such are worth thousands of pounds to collectors . |