Example sentences of "it is [adv] [prep] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( It is rather like dropping a cork into water : at first it bobs up and down a great deal , but as the ripples carry away its energy , it eventually settles down to a stationary state . ) |
| 2 | But this is no independent check : it is rather like buying a second copy of the same newspaper in order to check on whether the first was telling the truth . |
| 3 | It is rather like having a door handle to be opened . |
| 4 | ‘ It is rather like tackling a marathon without training or throwing yourself into a game of squash when you are out of condition . |
| 5 | If you marked two , the chances are definitely increasing , and with three or more it is well worth considering a change of diet to see if this helps . |
| 6 | Once the basic knitting techniques are mastered it is well worth buying a KR850 Ribber attachment to create a professional finish to all ribbing . |
| 7 | It is well worth taking a careful look at the teaching of St. John 's Gospel about the Spirit as Paraclete . |
| 8 | It is well worth keeping a special watch for fossils of this kind when hunting in Cambrian localities — it is still perfectly possible to discover a completely new kind of echinoderm ! |
| 9 | If you have only a 25mm or 50mm thickness in your loft , it is well worth adding a new 100mm layer of insulation over the top . |
| 10 | It is well worth spending a few minutes setting up the rails and lace carriage to see how it works even if you do n't want to knit with them at present . |
| 11 | The external doors , of course , admit the greatest number of draughts , so apart from fitting excluders , it is also worth hanging a heavy curtain over the inside of the front and back doors . |
| 12 | It is also worth overcoming an approach to computer-aided historical research which assumes that the complexities inherent in disambiguating and interpreting fuzzy information and of representing idiosyncratic data types are at all unique to history . |
| 13 | And it is also worth noting a curious , unsubstantiated but fascinating book , The Jesus Scroll , by an Australian writer , Donovan Joyce . |
| 14 | It is just like having a child 's kite on the end of your line in a strong wind . |
| 15 | There is not a great difference between the serum cholesterol level in the fasting or in the fed state and it is certainly worth using a random cholesterol as a screening test . |
| 16 | It is certainly worth paying a little extra for better cloth , finer details and a better cut . |
| 17 | The larger the pack the more liberal the usage so it is often worth incurring a packaging cost penalty . |
| 18 | Since many negotiations seem to break down at the implementation stage it is often worth making a prior commitment to monitor progress jointly and to meet again shortly after implementation is supposed to start . |
| 19 | The first time I get on , it is often after spending a few hours with them , and I kinda transfer over from the stable door to their backs . ’ |
| 20 | It might not happen , but it is never worth taking a chance . |
| 21 | It is really like putting a deco card into the card holder on the Duo 80 so that the little teeth fit into the holes of the card . |
| 22 | It is always worth taking a fresh look at the toys and apparatus which are put out daily , to decide just why they are there . |
| 23 | Editor , — The important moral of David Bowsher 's editorial on paradoxical pain must be that if any analgesic drug is not effective it is always worth trying a chemically dissimilar drug of the same class before deciding that the pain will not respond to that form of analgesia . |
| 24 | It is always worth having a look at the roughs plotted over time , and thinking hard about what has been discarded in the smoothing operation . |
| 25 | Finally , several novæ have appeared in Aquila during recent years , so that it is always worth making a check — though do not be deceived by a slow-moving artificial satellite ! |
| 26 | It is only by keeping an up to date total cost plan , which is revised to incorporate all new forecasts , that realistic comparisons with the budget cost can be made . |
| 27 | Generally , though , the effect is one of stillness , of supreme design : it is only in passing a family raising picks over their heads to break the deep brown clods that you consider the huge effort which has made this landscape . |
| 28 | It is perhaps worth mentioning a recently developed crag which is just off the Moustiers road , about four kilometres outside La Palud . |
| 29 | In relation to the ‘ content versus form ’ issue , it is perhaps worth mentioning a possible link with the more general debate about what is called ‘ moral reasoning ’ . |
| 30 | Having stressed the problems , it is perhaps worth taking a look at the advantages . |