Sentence examples for is to be worthwhile from inspiring English sources

A database must be actively maintained if it is to be worthwhile, so one of the most important jobs to be assigned in the group is that of the database manager.

Or, as Ward et al. [ 11] put it, "the factors which influence staff attitudes towards [the IT systems] become increasingly significant if the investment is to be worthwhile" (p.93).

Auden wrote that poetry makes nothing happen; Kent thinks theatre must, if it's to be worthwhile, change the world, if only a little.

It was hard enough for her to believe that the memoir I had in mind was to be worthwhile and not a hurtful exercise in family exposure.

Much of the play is necessarily pruned, though not as much as it could be - the two comedy drunkards need to be more strongly cast than this if they are to be worthwhile.

It is uncertain which hypothesis is to be preferred, but it would be worthwhile repeating the analysis on longer, more frequently sampled data.

Diligent editing and proof-reading are vital if a book is to be considered as a worthwhile read.

To learn that Harvey Weinstein's "legendary tantrums … made it all worthwhile" is to be none the wiser.

I think it is all going to be worthwhile".

"I am deeply convinced that it's going to be worthwhile".

But analysts said the company indicated last year that the alternatives were proving to be too expensive to be worthwhile.