Example sentences of "[pers pn] is worth [v-ing] that " in BNC.

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1 It is worth emphasising that the period spanned by the lives of El Greco and Velázquez saw in Latin America the consolidation of colonial government and of the Christian church , the establishment of the Spanish language and of European culture , the introduction of new methods of exploitation of people and resources .
2 It is worth emphasising that a return to first principles of traffic safety for children does not give support for the abolition of shared space ’ approaches in favour of either ‘ Radburn'-style pedestrian-vehicle segregation … nor a return to Roads In Urban Areas ’ styles of design with relatively wide , fast roads in residential areas ’
3 However , it is worth emphasising that the stages and the measures on which they are based are derived from a grammatical description and that , in the case of children with language difficulties , it can not be assumed that structurally based measures are predictive of functional skills ( Blank et al .
4 Indeed , it is worth emphasising that from the seller 's point of view , he is simply receiving ‘ money ’ ; he has no way of knowing when , where or how it was created .
5 I think it is worth emphasising that the agreement does not commit the Trust to anything more than regular monitoring of the Little Mill .
6 ( It is worth emphasising that the question is only one of judging whether the eye can determine the experimental set-up , and has nothing to do with the measurements . )
7 It is worth emphasising that the technical and vocational aims and objectives are not simply by-products of history teaching and study but are an essential part of the historical method .
8 At this stage it is worth emphasising that we still deal with personal injury litigation under an adversarial system .
9 It is worth mentioning that the final is not so theoretical as perhaps believed : 40 per cent of the marks are allocated in the practical paper .
10 As a counter to this strongly argued view , it is worth mentioning that it assumes that ‘ biggest is best ’ and that the potential benefits of synergy will actually accrue .
11 It is worth mentioning that Professor Gower , in his study of investor protection in the financial markets — the so-called Gower Report — did not employ any significant law/economics analysis .
12 I do not by any means place all my faith in so-called Urtext editions , but it is worth mentioning that the Lea Pocket Scores of Beethoven 's works were reprints of the nineteenth-century Breitkopf und Härtel collection edition .
13 Although we can not go into the technicalities of Ohmann 's method , it is worth mentioning that the apparatus he used was that of an earlier version of Transformational Grammar , one which subsequently underwent profound modifications . "
14 On the other hand it is worth mentioning that the hypothesis of decreased left hemisphere activity during the hypnotic state has been supported by other workers using different response measures .
15 Though this section looks only at government regional policies and labour mobility policies , it is worth mentioning that these represent only a small proportion of government expenditure on aid to industry .
16 It is worth mentioning that the anticompetitive practice provisions of the Competition Act 1980 , which enable the Office of Fair Trading ( OFT to investigate particular practices and produce a report which may then lead to an MMC reference , have often involved vertical restraints .
17 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 ’ .
18 It is worth considering that hands long formed to the sword , reins , shield and other military accoutrements become stiffened and calloused and it may be that the use of a small stylus or quill was physically difficult for Charles ; we can be in no doubt about his energy and intelligence .
19 It is worth considering that in part at least the malaise of modern society is the result of ill-considered and reckless policies of demolition and redevelopment .
20 Although this chapter is concerned with how you as an individual use power , it is worth considering that the global perspective on power is starting to change .
21 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 .
22 Nevertheless , the fact remains , these are exceptional cases , and it is worth remarking that even in the two cases cited , the freeholders concerned had not come under any previous commitment to a rival candidate .
23 Reference has , of course , already been made to the fetva given by Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi sanctioning the execution of Seyh Bedreddin In Mehmed I 's reign : with respect to the general question of the nature of in the early state , it is worth remarking that no clue is given as to why Burhaneddin was selected beyond the fact that " he was at the side of Sultan Mehmed " in Serez when Seyh Bedreddin was brought .
24 In passing , it is worth remarking that the ultimate recipients of monopoly profits are the monopolist 's shareholders .
25 Having made the point , it is worth reflecting that by all reasonable standards , many headteachers and education officers are remarkably successful .
26 It is worth stressing that in each year since 1980 there have been examples of serious street disorder ( Benyon , 1984 ; Benyon and Solomos , 1987 ) .
27 Although a range of sociological theories has suggested that crime is due to deprivation of one sort or another , it is worth stressing that many middle-class children also engage in delinquent behaviour .
28 It is worth stressing that this study did not arise out of a leisured academic interest but out of an urgent need for material to use therapeutically with highly-disturbed young people .
29 It is worth stressing that all of this teaching is done by the prisoners themselves rather than by prison officers .
30 It is worth stressing that Hume 's argument does not attempt to derive a sceptical conclusion from the fact that I might be wrong ( as in a way the first argument does ) nor from the fact that I have been wrong ( as the second argument does ) .
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