Example sentences of "it [is] worth [verb] [that] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To avoid confusion in this connection , it is worth stressing that while the stylistics of embellishment is also concerned with the relationship between the language and content of texts , the relationship there is confined to general questions of tone . |
| 2 | It is worth recording that before these expenditure reductions were announced Western Isles council received 98.4 per cent . |
| 3 | It is worth noticing that while the subsidy was levied on the income from land , it fell on the capital value of other forms of property and was therefore heavier for merchants and townsmen . |
| 4 | It is worth noticing that since the Government came to power , pensioners ' income from savings has risen by 8.6 per cent . |
| 5 | Although there are several reasons why passive sentences can be useful for the writer , then , it is worth noticing that if passives are overused they can produce writing that is unappealingly arid . |
| 6 | It is worth noting that while it would be a gross aesthetic blunder to introduce music of more classical times ( from the Baroque onwards ) into contemporary music , one can introduce earlier music quite successfully . |
| 7 | It is worth noting that although the children produced passages which facilitated greater learning , the changes which they made were not necessarily ones which would be picked up by a readability formula . |
| 8 | It is worth noting that although the product is only just released commercially I have been using an ‘ engineering ’ version on the PC for some two months while the actual review tests were done on a genuine US release version . |
| 9 | It is worth noting that although the profit on a long share can be infinitely large , this is not so in the case of a ‘ short ’ investment . |
| 10 | On the other hand , it is worth noting that although the proportion of English-language material which had been obtained by purchase was small ( 4% , as opposed to 93% in the case of foreign-language material ) , because the number of items involved was substantially higher , in numerical terms these items — many of them probably North American publications — outnumbered non-English-language purchases by a factor of three to one . |
| 11 | It is worth noting that although , during the Survey , untrained personnel were expected to assess the condition of books — an activity usually carried out by experts — considerable efforts were made to ensure the accuracy and consistency of the records which they maintained . |
| 12 | It is worth noting that whereas profit shares in manufacturing fell over the period , in the financial sector they were maintained at a high and even rising level [ Brown and Sheriff , 1978 ] . |
| 13 | Bearing in mind the course leaders ' concern to instil or reinforce responsible drinking attitudes and behaviour , it is worth noting that before the course 77 per cent of the participants agreed with the statement ‘ To enjoy yourself , it is necessary to have something to drink ’ ; yet by the end of the course 88 per cent disagreed with this attitude . |
| 14 | But it is worth noting that though the problems this produces for validation of theory are still not resolved in the social sciences , some researchers comfort themselves with the argument that different theories may agree at least on common working definitions , while a significant body of methodological writers has learnt to love the thorny creature by arguing ( after Max Weber ) that the theory- or value-component is a crucial positive factor in social-science explanation . |
| 15 | It is worth noting that when James Wolfe was sent as a young officer to restore order in the troubled clothing districts of the West Country , his sympathies rapidly shifted to the side of the weavers . |
| 16 | Australia and New Zealand , originally settled by white Europeans and still following a generally Protestant tradition , are usually regarded together — though it is worth noting that if their native aborigines and Maoris still dominated their populations , both countries would be regarded as South-East Asian , joined ethnically and culturally across the Arafura Sea . |
| 17 | It is worth noting that if the Sun were an oblate spheroid ( squashed at its poles ) , this would also have the effect of causing the orbit of Mercury to precess . |
| 18 | Firstly , it is worth noting that if the Lorenz equations ( Section 24.2 ) are considered as modelling convection in a loop ( Figs. 17.4 , 17.5 ) , then the chaotic solutions of the equations do not correspond to turbulent flow in the loop . |
| 19 | Similarly , although the smallness of the samples of 16th , 17th , and 18th Century publications in need of repair means that conclusions about them must be treated with some caution , it is worth noting that if all pre-1800 items are treated as a group and the proportion of them allocated to each of Categories 3–5 calculated , their pattern of distribution ( ‘ Poor' 78% ; ‘ Bad ’ 18% ; ‘ Fragile ’ 7% ) comes close to matching that already established for all defective items . |