Example sentences of "[verb] [is] worth " in BNC.

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1 Nor would the letting of the house at £400 a month be advisable , because the accommodation in the hotel that the Povah family would need is worth considerably more in terms of income .
2 A picture as they say is worth a thousand words and so it was that on the afternoon unemployment broke through the three million barrier I chanced a glimpse of the private feelings of John Major .
3 He starts by looking at DRG 's pension fund surplus , which he says is worth £25m .
4 The winners will receive an 18-week business training course — which the foundation says is worth £5000 — at Stirling University in the autumn .
5 Obviously , they take time to adjust to being someone 's pet , but the love they will give is worth any effort put in .
6 Therefore an adjective which has the effect of qualifying a property rather than an entity will not occur in ordinary predicative position ( nor in postnominal attributive position ) ; this prediction is confirmed by the unacceptability of sentences such as : ( 11 ) the sum of $300 she had to pay was total the lecturer who is to greet the Queen is mere a scoundrel complete must have taken my umbrella the cousins distant were put at a separate table If the adjectives in ( 12 ) are acceptable , reflexion shows at once that they are adjectives with more than one meaning , and the one which appears in predicative position is not that in which they are sense-qualifiers : ( 12 ) their village is distant and hard to reach burning his licence was wholly lawful the set complete is worth 1500 francs
7 ‘ Lying in hospital with plenty of time to think , one wonders whether racing is worth all the hassle .
8 One good bash on the head and you 're finished before you 've even started , so falling with your head raised is worth practising as well .
9 His own description of what followed is worth repeating : ‘ I found this location in Glasgow that I really liked and took about 15 shots of it .
10 The property is inspected by a valuer who tells us whether the place you 're buying is worth what we 'll be lending — not what you 're paying for it .
11 Something worth having is worth waiting for .
12 Certainly the message ‘ defeatists ’ need not apply' is worth making loud and clear !
13 The most difficult part of learning to read is learning that learning to read is worth the effort involved , and of being aware of the rewards of reading .
14 To reign is worth ambition , though in Hell :
15 Each can you save is worth nearly a penny to the Appeal .
16 There 's an old Jewish phrase which I think is worth repeating .
17 That is the price the Chancellor and the Prime Minister think is worth paying — the price of decline and despair for families , the price of the dissolution of industries upon which we in this country depend for our future .
18 Before we leave this discussion of basic theory and turn our attention finally to the modern world , there is one further point that I think is worth making and that is part of the answer to the second question asked above , namely , why do individuals go through the three stages in the conventional order ?
19 Eddie I think is worth sheer sort of opening teams up .
20 Now whether we would find in our strate if we were to have a strategic sites policy erm whether there 's an issue there that it might let in as it were too much of that kind of land use and not enough of the manufacturing or proper office kind I think is worth kicking around the table .
21 So let me just say a few things before he does arrive , and catch his breath and perhaps have a cup of tea , on , on a topic which we , it 's not fully listed but I think is worth just mentioning , and that is writing for the press , because it may occur to you and in fact you may yourself on occasions , write things for the press .
22 it 's a small expense which I think 's worth it .
23 I have covered all the major items of tackle that warrant discussion , but before this chapter is concluded I think that a comparison of end tackles is worth looking at .
24 What she wrote is worth repeating here :
25 If what he has to say is worth hearing , why is n't the interviewer recording what he says ?
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