Example sentences of "it is [adv] worth [v-ing] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 It is however worth remembering that black and white TV sets are now very cheap , and if , for instance , you are setting up previewing facilities for teachers a small black and white monitor or TV set is all you need .
2 It is equally worth noting if the class is so tightly controlled as to inhibit seriously pupil response .
3 However a hand drill can be a useful extra tool for making holes in locations remote from a power supply , or simply for a one-off drilling job in the workshop for which it is not worth unpacking and setting up a power tool .
4 because it is not worth litigating or suing for claims below a certain sum ;
5 It is nevertheless worth emphasizing that the estimates of population , storage capacity , agricultural yields and food consumption are all based on incomplete evidence ; so , interesting though this line of thought may be , no conclusions can be reached yet .
6 However , it is surely worth noting that in September 1980 the South African Journal of Science carried in article by Vines ( vol 76 , p 404 ) in which he considered the prospect of extended drought conditions in South Africa in the mid-1980s .
7 It is well worth visiting and contains facsimiles of many fine and interesting manuscripts , but be prepared for the fact that it is geared to schools and is therefore rather didactic .
8 It is well worth checking that the pupil 's chair and desk or table make this possible .
9 It is also worth considering whether historians have a role to play in developing SGML-aware software and/or conversion utilities which will enable us to fulfil our favourite processing aims while reading and writing TEI-conformant files .
10 It is also worth mentioning that even if the courts did allow an individual shareholder to bring a derivative action , that individual would still be unable to secure a direct remedy .
11 Townshend is most famous for beating his guitar against speaker stacks , but it is also worth remembering that , on stage at The Ricky Tick Club , Windsor , in May 1966 , he attempted the same stunt against the head of Keith Moon .
12 I am going to criticise modern farming methods , I promise you , but before I do it is also worth remembering that the primary beneficiary has been the consumer .
13 It is also worth remembering that choice of topic is affected by the power of the subjects of the research to resist the investigation .
14 It is also worth remembering that since it is the older type of housing that lacks basic amenities , elderly people are more likely to live in such accommodation .
15 It is also worth remembering that the way to hold someone 's attention is to look at them .
16 It is also worth remembering that an increased assessment does not necessarily reflect prosperity ; there is evidence of considerable urban decay , for example , at Coventry , despite the town 's greater tax liability .
17 It is also worth remembering that when they put in for an application for ten flats , the advice from the Authority was that was only development and no parking ,
18 It is also worth saying that spouses provide invaluable support during their partners ' periods of office and , in some cases , are very much involved in district society affairs .
19 If we find that industries are now disappearing fairly rapidly , it is also worth realizing that they arrived on the landscape quite suddenly .
20 It is also worth noting that correlations between ERPs and behaviour are never perfect , perhaps because of masking of some of the ERPs by random fluctuations of the background EEG .
21 In what is normally seen as a male-dominated play , it is also worth noting that Hands and Barton give the women unusual prominence .
22 It is also worth noting that , whereas the mills of the Lancashire cotton trade on the west side of the Pennines are mostly of brick , the wool mills of Yorkshire , on the east side , are of the readily available stone .
23 It is also worth noting that , as the analysts became immersed in the detailed examination , there was a tendency to forget that this was still part of the systems thinking stage , and that the models , activities and related information needs were those that were desirable in systems terms , and not did not necessarily reflect the real situation .
24 It is also worth noting that , due to the fact that people have fewer sense receptors in the neck , it is very difficult to tell when you are tensing your neck muscles and when you are not .
25 It is also worth noting that an operating lease transfers the risk of obsolescence from the lessee to the lessor .
26 It is also worth noting that parents briefed the assistants more often than professionals such as educational psychologists , doctors , speech and physiotherapists .
27 It is also worth noting that there are several teaching points that could usefully be made at a draft stage in Thomas 's work , notably the need to review the time sequence of the verbs in the penultimate sentence .
28 It is also worth noting that wherever a manager 's utility " depends partly upon income , a bonus scheme of the Finsinger-Vogelsang type is likely to improve performance , whereas other controls we have discussed ( e.g. rate of return on capital ) need not improve efficiency .
29 It is also worth noting that in Edinburgh Scottish English , phonologically prominent syllables are typically uttered with raised or high pitch and need not have the type of pitch movement associated with phonological prominence in descriptions of standard southern English ( cf.
30 It is also worth noting that Lawton claims that the HMIs may be pushing a model of curriculum planning ( based upon statements of aims and objectives ) which is out of date an issue we return to later in the chapter , and in Chapter 8 .
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