Example sentences of "it [is] [prep] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 31 | Erm , I think it 's worth saying that er us j just reiterating on what councillor has just said and that is that I think most tenants are very well aware of the right to buy and er er the motion being unnecessary but what happens with the motion is that it possibly attracts people who really in many ways can not actually afford to buy er to take advantage of their rights but who might be persuaded by very persuasive tactics to do so . |
| 32 | Yes , we have a parent governor , a teacher governor and a student governor and I think it 's worth saying that our student governor was elected by thirteen hundred out of our sixteen hundred children this year . |
| 33 | Or , said someone else , it 's like insisting that the walls of buildings are made thin enough for the FBI to listen through them . |
| 34 | ‘ We 've always done it this way ’ is as daft an excuse for an industrial manufacturing process which has become fossilised as it is for saying that fossils have a life of their own . |
| 35 | Yet reading is of vital importance in language learning : it is through reading that children can acquire not only new vocabulary and structures , but a real ‘ feel ’ for the language . |
| 36 | It is through suffering that we learn obedience and trust , and God , in his wisdom , will lead us through stages of growth that feel like anything but growth to bring us to Christ-likeness . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | ‘ 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 ’ |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | I think it is worth emphasising that the agreement does not commit the Trust to anything more than regular monitoring of the Little Mill . |
| 42 | ( 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 . ) |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | At this stage it is worth emphasising that we still deal with personal injury litigation under an adversarial system . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | 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 . " |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 ’ . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | In passing , it is worth remarking that the ultimate recipients of monopoly profits are the monopolist 's shareholders . |