Example sentences of "[conj] it [is] [adv] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's not to say that it 's not worth listening to : it clearly is , and it grows larger the more you hear it . |
| 2 | He says that it 's not worth staying on if the place is going to be wrecked . |
| 3 | the odds will be such that it 's not worth doing for a , a place , but if you 're betting , I mean forget how much I got last year , but I think it came in about thirty to one or something . |
| 4 | Can I close by thanking Rod our Chief Racing Coach for what I thought was a very excellent presentation of the R Y A Ye Year of Youth Sailing and I have great pleasure in launching that initiative for ts er this year 's Earls Court Boat Show again it seems horribly self evident that it 's only through increasing the involvement of the young that we assure thriving clubs and associations and classes for the future but nobody up here is going to say that it 's easy and I believe though that the work that the official , the officers and the R Y A put together will make it easier than it once was and I hope that the literature that they have put together and the programme that they have put together will be a help to all of you so please make use of it . |
| 5 | At Procedure Roll a defender may , very occasionally , succeed in persuading a Court that the pursuer 's case is so hopeless that it is not worth allowing evidence to be heard because even if that evidence was heard , it would not make out a case which would entitle the pursuer to succeed . |
| 6 | You sometimes hear people say that it is not worth eating differently , or getting to the right weight ; they say they prefer a short and happy life to a long and miserable one . |
| 7 | I say encourage because three out of four dissatisfied customers simply go away disgruntled — having concluded that it is not worth complaining . |
| 8 | I am told it was never finished , that it never will be finished , that it is not worth finishing . |
| 9 | Or will our message be so weak and insipid that it is not worth having . |
| 10 | Somewhat like Storr he suggests that it is only in overcoming such psychopathology that effective creating can occur — an uncontroversial conclusion but one that scarcely illuminates our understanding . |
| 11 | It is my belief that anorexic speech ( or , more literally , behaviour ) consists of two quite separate and often contradictory texts , and that it is only by studying them both , in order to fit them together and so come up with an amended text , that we can understand what is going on inside the anorexic herself . |
| 12 | This repudiation of language is often associated with the more romantic forms of political radicalism , the idea being that language is one of several devices by which the ruling elite manipulates cognitive structures to its own advantage , and that it is only by storming the Bastille of linguistic tradition that human beings have any hope of being restored to a state of primaeval egalitarian fellowship . |
| 13 | I believe that it is only by going back to the basics and debating questions such as ‘ What do you want from the audit process ? |
| 14 | It is not just that we clearly do understand something ; rather we know in advance that it is only by understanding the sceptic 's argument as we are clearly expected to , that we could be led to believe that we understand nothing . |
| 15 | However they put aside their competitiveness ( the Caledonian and Balmoral in Edinburgh , for example , are fighting for exactly the same guests ) because they know that it is only by working together , as one body , that they will attract visitors to Scotland in the first place . |
| 16 | You can learn so much from simply watching their actions and reactions that it is always worth sacrificing fishing time to spend an hour or so studying their behaviour . |
| 17 | Finally , several novæ have appeared in Aquila during recent years , so that it is always worth making a check — though do not be deceived by a slow-moving artificial satellite ! |
| 18 | The moral to this little story must therefore be that it is always worth checking that the components you receive from a supplier are the ones that you actually ordered ! |
| 19 | Since , however , the cost of the program is 10 this means a reduction in pay-off of 6·5 , so it is not worth doing . |
| 20 | Since , however , the cost of the program is 10 this means a reduction in pay-off of 6.5 , so it is not worth doing . |
| 21 | We have only one body in this life so it is well worth looking after . |
| 22 | However , these bars are n't always clearly defined , particularly the ones on the caudal peduncle , so it is back to counting to be sure . |
| 23 | The larger the pack the more liberal the usage so it is often worth incurring a packaging cost penalty . |
| 24 | It also has excellent help , so it 's well worth getting hold of . |
| 25 | Geoclock UK is quite accurate and fun to use — so it 's well worth having a look at , even if you do n't have a real use for it . |
| 26 | Geoclock UK is quite accurate and fun to use — so it 's well worth having a look at , even if you do n't have a real use for it . |
| 27 | However , with BBC BASIC you can turn to a particular character in a file an the tedium only takes a couple of seconds , so it 's well worth doing . |
| 28 | Some improvements — such as replacing soft furnishings or general decorations — do n't qualify for tax relief , so it 's always worth checking with your local tax office . |
| 29 | You put this into a different mode , and it 's not worth messing about with that at all . |
| 30 | At the same time , d the Tories are on their knees , some people , as I said earlier , I think it 's just as relevant in this debate , seem to have lost their way and when you took , look at what they 're proposing in terms of say , the er the fifty percent , the , the er M Ps , fifty percent of the votes for er the Parliamentary leader which of course is very consistent with , right , fifty percent of the vote , you take that along with proportional representation and what I believe you 're seeing is the number of people who have given up the ghost and are preparing to restructure the Party around coalition politics , and that 's where they 're heading , and they 're heading completely in the wrong direction because we 're more in tune with what 's going on in this country , the po opinion polls are saying fifty nine percent of the people actually I think , believe that er the Labour government is possible and will be voting for a Labour government , the alternative road is to oblivion and it 's not about modernizing , the people who 're proposing this coalition politics are n't modernizers , they 're Victorian politics , that 's what they 're about , they 're about taking us back , back before we created the Party , before we learnt the lesson that we needed to represent ourselves politically , they 're going back to , let's skil see what we get out of the Liberals , the free trade Liberals , in the nineteenth century , that 's where they 're going back , that 's not about modernization , real modernization is about making sure that the Labour Party speaks for the working people up and down this country and that 's our contribution to make to that Party and therefore we should have a role in decision making and influencing the Party that enables us as an organization to express that feeling , and that understanding of what people actually want in this country , and that 's why we 're supporting the C E C proposals . |