Example sentences of "[conj] it is [prep] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is worth stressing that Saussure 's work is open to a variety of interpretations , and although he himself did not use the concepts structure and structural , it was his idea of the arbitrary and differential nature of the linguistic sign , and therefore of the essential disjunction between language and reality , that became the foundation of the structuralist movement . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , these encouraging results have not been substantiated in prospective studies of special forms of treatment , although it is worth noting that no proper , prospective controlled study in which patients have been randomly assigned to either a treatment or a no-treatment group has been carried out . |
| 5 | Nor it is worth pursuing that the sandwiches at 10 Downing Street were probably very much better than those in The Centenary at Norton . |
| 6 | Swings often start by touching down with drift in a cross wind and it is worth remembering that , from the point of view of avoiding a bad swing into wind , it is better to overdo the drift correction . |
| 7 | I am certain they are not , and it is worth remembering that the majority did not vote Conservative on 9 April . |
| 8 | For such men , enclosure of their lands could be the next step ( 62 ) , and it is worth remembering that even John Hales , the mid-sixteenth-century opponent of enclosures , was prepared to admit that enclosure per se was not necessarily evil : his particular concern was with the turning of arable fields into pasture ( 58 , p.180 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Waiting is a bore , and it is worth noting that the chain continues to rotate after the disc has stopped , so beware fingers . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | That policy was overturned in two minutes flat but it is worth remembering that it had held sway since the inception of the service areas fifteen years earlier . |
| 20 | The great period of the spread of new , especially Egyptian , oriental and Thracian cults was the fourth century ( chapter 13 ) , but it is worth remembering that Kroisos ( Hdt. i. 146 ) in the sixth century , and the Athenian Kimon in the fifth ( Plut . |
| 21 | Evidence for road transport is hard to come by , but it is worth remembering that the fifteenth century saw a considerable amount of bridge-building ; old timber structures were replaced by stone ones , some of which still survive . |
| 22 | What we do not know is how far these were typical , but it is worth remembering that the letters of both the Pastons and the Stonors are largely concerned with family concerns rather than national politics . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Specialization of this kind was not , of course , the practice elsewhere in the civilized world ‘ but it is worth noting that the broad curriculum of Europe and America is almost equally under fire ’ . |
| 25 | But it is worth noting that at least for the criticism of popular culture , and of television in particular , this apparently postmodern move may have less to do with a radical change in the terms of value than with a fundamental shift of attention — and of political faith — from the text to the audience . |
| 26 | Mostly , these were people in lower socio-economic groups ; but it is worth noting that even in these groups people with high credit commitments , or people who said that if they had to arrange a loan it would be for a relatively large sum of money , generally said they would prefer monthly repayments . |
| 27 | Margaret Irwin herself accepted that the lack of success was caused by " the apathy of the women themselves … the woman does not take her industrial work as seriously as a man … [ she ] does not regard it as the permanent occupation of her life " .37 Margaret Irwin 's views are not to be dismissed lightly , but it is worth noting that she herself did not approach the question with any blazing convictions about equal pay . |
| 28 | But it is worth noting that even in China , the buyer of licenses is as much motivated by profit as is the copyright owner . |
| 29 | Whether the stance of ‘ being ’ makes any sense in the natural sciences is an interesting question , but it is worth noting that some physicists talk of a phenomenological or holistic approach . |
| 30 | These works examine infant development from the quite different perspectives of cognitive psychology and psychoanalytic studies respectively , but it is worth noting that , within the context of these separate disciplines , Piaget and Klein are both distinguished by their emphasis upon the early stages of infant development . |