Example sentences of "it is [prep] [verb] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | At this stage it is worth emphasising that we still deal with personal injury litigation under an adversarial system . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Even though some presenters use music merely as a vehicle for their own performances , it is worth remembering that they would all find it very difficult to do their job without the music base . |
| 6 | Yet it is worth remembering that they were fuelled by intense speculation about her marriage . |
| 7 | It is worth remembering that we are dealing with ‘ popular ’ music . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is worth remembering that it is useful to the Bank to know what their customers think of the services they receive : it enables them to improve upon the services they offer . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is worth knowing that you can run Qbasic from a floppy only system and using earlier version of MS-DOS all you need are the three files listed to be stored on the current drive . |
| 12 | It is worth knowing that you do not have to type in the dollar signs for yourself . |
| 13 | Further analysis of the above five steps could be conducted ( for instance , it is worth noting that they are made up of ( I ) non-drama — 1 ( 2 ) nun-drama — 1 ( 3 ) drama — 1 ( 4 ) non-drama — 1 ( 5 ) drama activities ) but it is not in the matter of graded steps within a sequence that drama resembles a game : the game element of drama is inherent within each stop . |
| 14 | These two techniques are primarily intended for use in table searching in main storage , and are only incidentally usable for direct files ; it is worth noting that they are intended to eliminate the order-preserving properties of division , while using division as a convenient randomizing algorithm . |
| 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 | As the person to whom the original impetus was often attributed , it is worth noting that he was able to distinguish the project investment from associated developments , pointing out with approval that : about 20% of the library Project money has been spent on … stuff that I have asked for quite specifically in terms of expeditions and integrated studies … |
| 17 | It is worth noting that it was not the Committee 's objective to assert directly the primacy of English over classics , but instead to capture for their subject some of the cultural authority invested in classics for an altered social and educational purpose . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ It is in giving that we receive ’ . |
| 20 | It is in suffering that we discover the things that matter ; in sorrow we discover ourselves . |