Example sentences of "and it is [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Information is correct at the time of going to press , but museums may have to vary their hours from time to time and it is worth checking before a special visit is made , especially around Christmas , Easter and Bank Holidays . |
| 32 | Glare can also be caused by very light coloured ceramic floor tiles and it is worth keeping this in mind when choosing from the wide range of floor coverings available . |
| 33 | The Greeks strew their common thyme liberally all over roasted or kebabbed lamb , to its great enhancement , and it is worth applying this principle to all the cooking herbs . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | This can not be taken for granted , however , and it is worth fending off inevitable disappointment by making enquiries before signing any contract of employment . |
| 36 | Depending upon the size of your area and the arrangements with the local CAB they will sometimes carry brochures and it is worth asking if you can leave your specialist personal injury literature . |
| 37 | A considerable proportion will be greatly improved and it is worth waiting another couple of months to see further improvement before commencing drug therapy . |
| 38 | Whether this sermon to the reader is successful has often been debated , and it is worth contrasting at this point the more subtle approach of the painter , John Constable , addressing a London audience . |
| 39 | Here again , if any particular type of equipment is absolutely essential in the bathroom , and finance is a problem , the social services department of the local authority may be able to help , and it is worth approaching them before anything is purchased or installed . |
| 40 | It is difficult to exaggerate the strength of Protestant feeling about this issue and it is worth quoting Allister 's statement of the views expressed by many of the people I interviewed : |
| 41 | Williams put forward what is still an admirable rationale for politicised lexicography , and it is worth quoting him : |
| 42 | Erm , I I think we will encourage er , people with dependants to play a more active role in the er , business of this council and in , I think it is something that is worth er , considering and it is worth carrying forward . |
| 43 | We have a way of talking , and thus a way of thinking , about thoughts as if they were sentences in the head ; and it is worth noting that Fodor ( for example in Psychosemantics ) regards folk psychology as providing a rough but reliable account of mental life and behaviour . |
| 44 | Waiting is a bore , and it is worth noting that the chain continues to rotate after the disc has stopped , so beware fingers . |
| 45 | We established the same result in Section 9.2 by applying the CS conditions to LP* ( 2 , 0 , 0 ) and it is worth noting that the resulting inequalities typically involve more variables than if ( 9.8 ) is used , but ( 9.8 ) presumes a knowledge of the tableau as opposed to just knowing the BFS . |
| 46 | It would be wrong , however , to rely exclusively on the accounts of the teachers to whom we spoke , and it is worth noting that the evaluators ' observations temper this picture of dynamism and progressiveness . |
| 47 | There is competition , however , and it is worth noting that Basil Caplan , the editor of Organic Gardening Magazine , published his Complete Manual of Organic Gardening ( Headline , £25 , 0 74720515 9 ) to great acclaim last year . |
| 48 | Prison security has become an issue , especially since the troubles in Northern Ireland , and it is worth noting that the 1983 report of the Chief Inspector of Prisons suggested that the lessons of the 38-prisoner-escape from the Maze could be applied to England and Wales . |
| 49 | This would seem to mark Alcester as something apart from the general category , and it is worth noting that the site lies almost equidistant , as the crow flies , from the major cities of Wroxeter , Leicester , Gloucester and Cirencester . |
| 50 | The fall in population did not , however , mean a general decline in economic activity ; rising wages may have served to increase consumption and give some stimulus to production , and it is worth noting that even the magnate class , which was more likely to suffer from the changed balance of power between land and labour through declining rent rolls and higher payments of wages was still able to invest considerable sums in new building during Richard II 's reign . |
| 51 | The analysis of Lloyd LJ in Aswan was an exhaustive one of previous authorities and it is worth noting . |
| 52 | The concern in the present section is with purely reactive circuits and it is worth noting that in dual versions the frequencies at which the reactance becomes zero or infinite is the same , one circuit being resonant ( ) whenever the other is antiresonant ( ) and vice versa . |
| 53 | Nonetheless , certain things are always required in an adequate understanding of conversion , and it is in ignoring these that we leave openings for later doubts . |
| 54 | There is little excuse for allowing these situations to drift ; and it is in preventing such situations that professional practice based on research parts company from common sense and rules of thumb or the use of ‘ hunches ’ . |
| 55 | If our tunnel vision sees only disconnected fragments , the fault lies within ourselves and it is in remedying that ignorance to which our main efforts should be individually devoted . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | And it is by bringing this institutional dimension into focus that we may fully appreciate the influence of Laski , who was Professor of Political Science at LSE from 1926 to 1950 . |
| 58 | You can see how Dorothy Sayers did it by having the victim being supposed to be actively painting when in fact he was dead , and it is by using some such piece of lateral thinking , making the victim provide the alibi in this instance , that the trick is probably most easily brought off . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | 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 . |