Example sentences of "[that] it [be] [adv] [prep] [verb] " 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 | We should remember that it was ill the employers " interests to claim that it was not worth providing women with a long training because they would waste it by leaving early ; while it was in the trade union 's interest to claim that women were incompetent because they had only received a short training . |
| 20 | The Church argued that it was not worth spending such high sums on the building 's repair . |
| 21 | Always confirm that it was overhead by calling until a reciprocal is received . |
| 22 | Marjorie had opened the long sash windows and pushed the table near them , so that it was almost like eating in the garden . |
| 23 | He was firmly convinced that it was only by consolidating working class effort to meet capitalist effort that they would win through to salvation … |