Example sentences of "and it is [prep] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it is worth taking a little time to look at this personage . |
| 2 | This is a crucial and extremely innovative part of the Highlander education ‘ system , ’ and it is worth spending a little time stressing the importance of this . |
| 3 | There are constants , all the same , and it is in tracing the way the attributes of adventurous children — their courage , their resourcefulness , their loyalty — change yet remain the same , that the traditions of the adventure story can be verified . |
| 4 | Although the relation is the same in both cases , the psychological aspect of compresence has the epistemological priority and it is by considering the " private compresence " of the parts of one total momentary experience that we must begin in trying to explain the possibility of an objective order in physical space-time . |
| 5 | But the important point to remember is that we do not observe these sociolinguistic patterns directly : it is the speech of individuals in conversational settings that we observe and describe , and it is by analysing a large quantity of spoken language from many speakers that we can then demonstrate the patterns that emerge from our data . |