Example sentences of "[noun sg] be worth " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some incidents at local level are worth recording . |
| 2 | Since Gladstone 's day , governments have accepted that literacy , learning and literature are worth more than the revenue from a tax on the product . |
| 3 | The words of Sir Keith Joseph , Kenneth Baker 's immediate predecessor at the DES , and an architect of the National Curriculum are worth quoting in this context . |
| 4 | The Report 's observations on the overall development programme are worth repeating . |
| 5 | The real question is whether any bits of the former Soviet Union 's industry are worth having ? |
| 6 | This book is based on the view that the general principles of judicial review of administrative action are worth studying . |
| 7 | The remaining car being worth £450 , the seller 's loss on the resale was £850 minus ( £450 plus £350 ) equals £50 . |
| 8 | But it is notable enough that the deal is worth 3.6 times the annual $125m sales value of these products . |
| 9 | The Henkel deal is worth $573m ; income from this and other sales will help to repay Nordbanken under the original agreement ( if it is upheld ) . |
| 10 | The deal is worth £125,000 , and Coda will supply cellular phone company Westel — the joint venture between state-owned Hungarian Telecommunications Co and US West Inc — with its integrated accounting system ; this runs on mid-range machines such as IBM Corp 's AS/400 , and Digital Equipment Corp 's VAX and Alpha . |
| 11 | The deal is worth $5m to NetLabs . |
| 12 | He claims that the deal is worth a cool $14.2 billion . |
| 13 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG has stepped up its relationship with Burlington , Massachusetts-based Xylogics Inc , and is to integrate the firm 's Annex communications servers into its Intel Corp-based MX and MIPS Technologies Inc RISC-based RM300 and RM6000 Unix systems : the deal is worth some $5.25m over three years . |
| 14 | Egypt 's Banque du Caire has signed up to use ICL DRS6000 boxes running Arabank , a branch banking application , at its Cairo headquarters and branches — the deal is worth £2.8m . |
| 15 | In India , the Bombay Stock Exchange is to use 50 Sun servers to support some 3,000 personal computers running alongside an ICL mainframe to automate its trading floor — the deal is worth a total of some $30m over the next 12 months : Sun 's contribution is being handled by its distributor Wipro Infotech . |
| 16 | Usually a deal is worth around $50 million . |
| 17 | The new deal is worth around £25,000 to the Scottish Golf Union , whose president , Douglas Rae , welcomed the sponsor 's renewed commitment in Glasgow yesterday . |
| 18 | One variant of the experiment is worth mentioning . |
| 19 | er to raise two matters or comments rather than matters erm seating er , new cushions have now been purchased and were used with great success at the October production and Alan has asked whether there are any comments we can draw about the success or otherwise of the October production and whether the experiment is worth continuing . ? |
| 20 | Before that engulfs us completely , the old Kinnock-Hattersley partnership is worth what Milton called ‘ the meed of some melodious tear ’ . |
| 21 | It seems clear that the introduction of systems that can complement and help guide good diagnostic judgement and reasoning is worth evaluation . |
| 22 | A malinger round the monument is worth your while , if only for the extraordinary view down Loch Shiel and to reassure yourself that you will soon be leaving behind all the people milling idly around their coaches , to whom 1745 means quarter to six . |
| 23 | Absence of status consciousness is worth commenting on further as an effect of national culture on scores . |
| 24 | If Keane is worth 3.75million , Speed is worth 4 at least . |
| 25 | THE Sega Game Gear is worth £99.99 and with its colour graphics screen is the most fashionable hand-held around . |
| 26 | The Sega Game Gear is worth £99.99 . |
| 27 | Critics seem to have it the other way round , so there 's a lot of stuff talked about me using different styles , but there does n't seem to be much said about whether it works , or whether it 's done with taste , or whether the end result is worth having . |
| 28 | Both singer and players have to envisage and sustain the long phrases called for , to avoid the very slow tempo from falling apart , but when achieved , the result is worth the effort . |
| 29 | Clearly , one aim is to ensure the election of a Parliament the House of Commons of which is of an efficient size , and the Members of which are elected in such a way that the vote of one elector is worth the same as another , neither more nor less . |
| 30 | The law says 16 years ' wrongful imprisonment for murder is worth £100,000 damages . |