Example sentences of "[conj] it [is] worth " in BNC.
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| 1 | From Red Pike follow the ridge to High Stile ( 0.75 miles ) where it is worth wandering a little northwards along the summit spur to get the best views of Buttermere . |
| 2 | This is not the place to dwell on the answer to the first question , although it is worth remarking that there are significant nuances of opinion between Britain , on the one hand , and France and Germany , on the other , concerning the relationship with the United States . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , these encouraging results have not been substantiated in prospective studies of special forms of treatment , although it is worth noting that no proper , prospective controlled study in which patients have been randomly assigned to either a treatment or a no-treatment group has been carried out . |
| 4 | It does of course raise serious questions about reductionism ( Peacocke 1985 ) , although it is worth noting that reductionism between levels ( e.g. from the social to the biological or from the biological to the biochemical ) is different from reductionism within a given level ( e.g. the psychological as against the sociological , or the sociological as against the economic ) , which is a matter of perspective or aspect rather than level in Comte 's terms . |
| 5 | In the first place Braque had detached himself from visual appearances to a much greater extent than Cézanne , who while he was obviously very much aware ( if only instinctively ) of the purely formal or abstract side of painting , relied nevertheless , in his still lifes and landscapes , on an exhaustive study of the ‘ motif ’ as his point of departure , although it is worth mentioning that in his articles Emile Bernard had suggested that Cézanne 's vision ‘ was much more in his brain than in his eye ’ . |
| 6 | Although it is worth stressing that Saussure 's work is open to a variety of interpretations , and although he himself did not use the concepts structure and structural , it was his idea of the arbitrary and differential nature of the linguistic sign , and therefore of the essential disjunction between language and reality , that became the foundation of the structuralist movement . |
| 7 | Nor it is worth pursuing that the sandwiches at 10 Downing Street were probably very much better than those in The Centenary at Norton . |
| 8 | And , as Mark himself said , when asked whether he had any words of advice for those who might follow in his footsteps , ‘ I would tell them that it 's worth it if the alternative is that they die . ’ |
| 9 | Teams will do anything to stop a try being scored now that it 's worth more . |
| 10 | Last month I tried to convince you that it 's worth knowing more about the Windows INI ( initialization ) files . |
| 11 | A couple of handfuls scattered over the area surrounding the sett , an hour or two before dusk , will often convince the resident brocks that it 's worth staying a while longer before going off to forage . |
| 12 | Says Jim : ‘ It is a costly exercise , but we feel that it 's worth every penny . |
| 13 | Mention has been made to the paperwork , I think that it 's worth reminding ourselves that a lot of the paperwork that has been generated , is a direct result of Conservative government introduced legislation , particularly cri criminal justice er , legislation , which requires a considerable amount of paperwork , erm , to be completed by officers , quite often in long , in longhand , and not making use of technology , where in fact they er , a great deal of time and effort could be con , er could be er , saved . |
| 14 | So erm that 's , if you 're , if you 're getting behind on that it 's worth trying to do something about it soonish before you get too far behind to manage to catch up |
| 15 | I do n't feel that it 's worth doing . |
| 16 | Here are then , can have that one , do n't lose that it 's worth a lot of money |
| 17 | Or you could go in and say , ‘ Listen , , can I suggest two or three aspects of this that it 's worth covering ? |
| 18 | To suggest that it is worth the effort of destruction . |
| 19 | Accidents due to swinging on take-off and landing are so common that it is worth studying the causes in detail . |
| 20 | However , with a bit of training a step-up roundhouse kick or reverse roundhouse kick will convince the referee that it is worth a full point . |
| 21 | Guardian readers are sufficiently interesting and distinctive that it is worth tolerating the statistical uncertainties caused by our small sample and the Guardian 's small readership . |
| 22 | The problems of equipment-cost inflation have become so crucial in Defence planning that it is worth recalling briefly how the British weapon procurement system works . |
| 23 | It is certainly true that it is worth ‘ pooling ’ sovereignty in some areas since it makes more sense to do this than to act independently . |
| 24 | But if the importance of a facade to a street has been recognized once , the argument that it is worth retaining for its contribution to the townscape must be upheld . |
| 25 | A further point is that the Shotgun model includes a large number of carrier variables and that it is worth further investigation to see if a more parsimonious model provides a satisfactory relationship . |
| 26 | One of the many compliments that can be paid this finely produced book is that it is worth reading from cover to cover . |
| 27 | Some children never learn that it is worth the effort and so do not learn to read efficiently . |
| 28 | Although the technology was not microprocessor-based , and the events are now thirty years past , the study 's theoretical approach and empirical findings are of such interest and relevance that it is worth describing them in some detail . |
| 29 | His publisher may then decide that it is worth incorporating all the additions and corrections in another edition . |
| 30 | If screaming for sweets in the supermarket can occasionally be successful the child learns that it is worth having a go every time they pass the supermarket checkout . |