Example sentences of "[verb] been worth " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Washington , President Bush appeared in the White House press room to tell reporters ‘ Yes , it has been worth it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He has been worth every penny we have spent and every tear we have shed . |
| 3 | In Central Office , Patrick Gower consoled himself , ‘ It has been a strenuous year but it has been worth it and it has been fun . |
| 4 | Over the years Muir has been through thick and thin with Tranmere , and has been worth his weight in gold . |
| 5 | If the bonus had risen in line with prices since its introduction in 1972 , it would have been worth £48.85 last Christmas . |
| 6 | If either of these sentences were true , the story would not have been worth telling , since the conversion would have been a purely fanciful affair which bore no relevance to Lewis at the deepest levels of his being . |
| 7 | However , this would not have been worth as much as the Guardian payout to the average investor . |
| 8 | With child care costs added to reasonable travelling expenses , this alone would have been worth as much as £40 a week now . |
| 9 | I once saw a painted picture of something like it in the Rockefeller Centre — must have been worth a million dollars or more — but we never had anything like that , so that mountain was my art , something beautiful and eternal . |
| 10 | This was only a modest puff of inflation by subsequent standards : by 1974 the 1950 pound would have been worth only one-third of a pound . |
| 11 | When he had finished the hearings quickly wound up with no incisive questioning of the last three witnesses , Shultz , Weinberger and Meese , although their tales would have been worth hearing ; the committees , after all , had contracted to finish by early August , whether or not the full story had been told . |
| 12 | She sighed , and wondered if all she had done to help the young couple could possibly have been worth it . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm afraid not ; it should have been worth seeing . |
| 14 | Cliff 's contribution to the Palace cause would have been worth recording if it had stopped there at the end of 1962–63 , with Palace safely in mid-table but , twelve months later , and courtesy of 20 goals from the big man himself , we were back in Division Two after an absence of 39 years . |
| 15 | What with all those houses , plus the school , he must have been worth close to a million pounds , give or take the odd thousand . |
| 16 | It would have been worth overcoming your natural repugnance . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ A few years ago this painting would have been worth about £3 million , now it is a third of that . ’ |
| 18 | At yesterday 's prices that stake would have been worth £7,900 . |
| 19 | The Rock and Ice imprint must have been worth at least a grade . |
| 20 | That alone would have been worth the scramble round the cliff path . |
| 21 | Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ? |
| 22 | If the contract had been ‘ straightforward ’ then it would have been worth half the £1.31 million that he was to be paid . |
| 23 | As the income of the much smaller Missenden Abbey was given as £160 , compared with £262 net in 1535 , its goods may have been worth much more than the £140 assessed . |
| 24 | But when a lawyer asserts that A can sue B , what he means is that A can sue B , successfully ; if he meant his words to be taken literally , they would not have been worth the uttering . |
| 25 | Lehmann must have been worth at least two billion yuan . |
| 26 | ‘ It would almost have been worth it . |
| 27 | His parental maxim , ‘ if you do not serve others , you will not have been worth the upbringing ’ , is reflected in her dedication to a life of service to humanity . |
| 28 | But without her virtue , even if she had been beautiful , she would n't have been worth the weight of her little toe in dross . |
| 29 | The contents , the observer thought , could not have been worth five dollars . |
| 30 | Will it all have been worth it ? |