Example sentences of "[is] [prep] [v-ing] [conj] [conj] [art] " 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 noticing that since the Government came to power , pensioners ' income from savings has risen by 8.6 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 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |