Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [conj] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is worth noticing that since the Government came to power , pensioners ' income from savings has risen by 8.6 per cent . |
| 3 | The agency requires studies to show how much spray residue is left on crops after harvesting and if the pesticide breaks down safely in water . |
| 4 | To imagine this is to be aware that the aggressive term which I have applied to Amis 's novelistic method , ‘ ventriloquism ’ , has the drawback of suggesting that when an author throws his voice , the character who receives it will necessarily be found to be inanimate , a dummy . |
| 5 | What hope have Western Samoa got of developing that if a conveyor belt of their top talent is forever being diverted into All Black hands ? |
| 6 | Denis , of course , likes to light up whenever possible , but he does recognise the propriety of waiting until after the Queen 's health has been drunk . |
| 7 | Bartocci was staring angrily at Zen , who realized that he had made the mistake of speaking as though the letter really existed , as if the kidnapping was genuine . |
| 8 | In place of saying that if the effect occurred so did the cause , we may say that the occurrence of the effect required that of the cause . |
| 9 | So what so traditional schools Thought that women did a lot of Recognized they thought that women did a lot of talking but that a lot of it was n't really any use . |
| 10 | Tell the plaintiff that the doctor will be keen to detect signs of malingering and that no attempt to exaggerate the plaintiff 's symptoms should be made . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 19 | In the mechanical analogy , this is like saying that when the marble is in stage A ( Logic 1 ) it is not in state B ( Logic 0 ) . |
| 20 | It is a bit like arguing that if the hypothesis that smoking causes lung cancer is to be believed , everybody who smokes must get cancer ; what is more nothing else ( such as asbestos ) can be admitted as having the same effect . |
| 21 | However , in abstract thinking it has always been our habit to assume the role of Ego perfectly isolated from spontaneity ; and even when in theory we have learned to distinguish the play-acting from real life , we are still liable to slip back into thinking as though the agent applying ‘ Be aware ’ were indeed an Ego unaffected by inclination veering with awareness . |
| 22 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that there was nothing in the policy of the Insolvency Act 1986 that indicated that Parliament intended to give the words ‘ carried on business ’ in section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) of that Act a meaning different from that which they had been held to bear in section 4(1) ( d ) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 ; that a debtor did not cease to carry on business for the purposes of section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) until all the trading debts of the business had been paid ; and that , accordingly , the registrar had been right in holding that since the tax liability had not been discharged the debtor was still carrying on business and that he had jurisdiction to make the bankruptcy order ( post , pp. 122B–E , H — 123A ) . |
| 23 | It goes without saying that once a person is charged his status is changed . |
| 24 | It goes without saying that when a charity do is well organized and welcoming , it can be the greatest joy and can give you a good deal more than you 'd ever anticipated . |
| 25 | It goes without saying that if the debtor has employed undue influence or misrepresentation in order to persuade the surety to enter into the transaction and the creditor has knowledge that this has happened , the security will be unenforceable . |
| 26 | It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I see no justification for concluding that if the service provided involves the use of professional skill and judgment , the provision of such a service to the society can not also constitute action by the society . |
| 29 | This is a sure recipe for ensuring that when the barriers do come down , those who think this way will be left behind . |
| 30 | Twenty two patients had colonic contractions during fasting and after the meal . |