Example sentences of "[is] [prep] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | part of it , have a look at it , Sandra , if you pa if you pass it onto each other and then just say that I think that 's worth getting cos we do have the money now er to start and look at things like that . |
| 2 | It 's worth mentioning that I asked a lot of people in Spain , when I was there , at the Spanish you know what they knew about it , and nobody did . |
| 3 | Coney Island is about staring and he seemed to enjoy being a spectacle even for dirty children with candysmeared mouths . |
| 4 | Eubank had a perfect reply : ‘ It is not about belts , it is about winning and I beat you . |
| 5 | It is worth knowing that you do not have to type in the dollar signs for yourself . |
| 6 | Recent advances in medical treatment of HIV mean that some doctors now think that it is worth knowing if you have an HIV infection . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In this connexion it is worth remembering that it takes a little longer to change where cymbals are concerned ( owing to the way in which they are held ) but from bass drum to side-drum , triangle , or tambourine , or from any of these to any other , is a matter of seconds . |
| 9 | This axiom is worth remembering as we enter the second year of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction , declared by the UN . |
| 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 | Though some feminists have criticised Gilligan 's work on both theoretical and methodological grounds , and its point should therefore not be taken as unquestionably proven , it is worth discussing because it has had enormous influence . |
| 12 | It is worth repeating that it stripped for ever from folklore the idea that British Rail was wholly independent and could do what it liked , that the Government had no connection with it and were not concerned in the day-to-day running of its affairs , and that there was a chasm between British Rail and the Government . |
| 13 | However , it is worth considering because it does offer , at least in theory , an alternative . |
| 14 | His letter is worth quoting as it shows the depth of feeling and suspicion in the Services at that time . |
| 15 | Although detailed consideration of these lies beyond the scope of the present book , l it is worth noting that they raised more specifically social and economic grievances than the risings of the fifteenth century . |
| 16 | The importance of context in establishing the boundaries of given and new elements is worth noting because it suggests that analysing written language in terms of given and new is feasible . |
| 17 | This last point is worth amplifying as it does affect the poetry . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | To suppose that we have to choose between mentalism and behaviourism is like saying that we have to choose between saying that the words ‘ trump ’ and ‘ revoke ’ designate feelings of triumph and embarrassment , and saying that they designate triumphant and embarrassed behaviour . |
| 20 | ‘ It is in giving that we receive ’ . |
| 21 | It is in suffering that we discover the things that matter ; in sorrow we discover ourselves . |
| 22 | Although awareness outlasts attention , it is by attending that one arrives at , maintains and renews it . |