Example sentences of "[adj] it is [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Before resorting to this it is worth ensuring that the injection technique is satisfactory and the injection sites are healthy .
2 Yet before deciding on the implications of this it is worth examining the texts of the other jurists .
3 ‘ If you succeed ’ , he went on , ‘ you will have hundreds of miles of country and thousands of men under your orders , and for this it is worth bartering the outward show . ’
4 On this it is worth quoting the comments of Lord Justice Lawton in a letter to The Times .
5 Though nothing came of this it is of interest because it anticipates the ‘ Cold War ’ methods by which Persia sought to infiltrate Greece in the second half of the century .
6 Much high praise has already come Mohicans ' way and it has done astounding US box-office business , but despite this it is on occasion a flawed film with a sometimes patchy pace and a structure that wobbles in the final 30 minutes .
7 Like this it is at once a moment of knowledge ( " to understand reality is to see and understand things in their connectedness and their interpretation , one to the other " ) and moment of praxis ( synthesis ) whose material embodiment is the process of modelling ( forming : here both in terms of cognitive modelling , including the modeling of meaning and the extension of this modelling , with all its reciprocal interactions ) .
8 Frankly , having spent two days looking at how different it is for Nirvana right now — or rather , how it was six weeks ago — I found it difficult not to .
9 Since ch'i occupies the place in Chinese cosmology corresponding to matter in ours , Westerners took a long time to grasp how very different it is from what we understand by matter .
10 So we might say , Well our overall confidence is two but our relative confidence which is saying how different it is from everything else is only one .
11 Where waters are quite clear it is worth spending as much time as possible gazing from bridges , the banks or trees .
12 Again we see how much easier it is to be absolute in allegiance to a doctrine rather than to enquire into the beliefs upon which it is founded .
13 The fitter we become and the more energy we expend on a regular basis , the easier it is for us to maintain our new figure .
14 If parents and nurses would only realise how much easier it is for the child to bend to the social and moral laws in later life , when trained from infancy , how much sorrow might be saved .
15 Thus , the more mobile a dipolar group , the easier it is for it to follow the electric field up to higher frequencies , whereas the less mobile groups can only orient at lower frequencies .
16 ‘ The more information we can get from the public the easier it is for us to tackle criminals and make life in the town better for everyone , ’ he said .
17 Also , if a contractor is to carry out the work the more information we can supply to them the easier it is for them to provide an accurate tender .
18 If the potential rewards are high it is worth pursuing , but knowing when to stop is not easy , and formalized methods of planning are not always easy to apply .
19 And it also tells me how high it is in the sky .
20 As in Chapter 2 it is worth stressing that for predictive valuation purposes P , i , t ; + 1 and D , i , t ; + 1 are uncertain quantities .
21 If the meme is a scientific idea , its spread will depend on how acceptable it is to the population of individual scientists ; a rough measure of its survival value could be obtained by counting the number of times it is referred to in successive years in scientific journals .
22 ‘ I should have thought anyone with a grain of sensitivity would realise how painful it is for all of us to have this all raked up again .
23 Most of the other examples cited in Bolinger 's article as adjectives capable only of sense-qualification do not seem to us to be properly so classified either ; if they are felt to be atypical it is for some other reason .
24 In one case the sheet folds in a way that is very similar to the formation of a neural tube ; in another it is very similar to the way the lens forms ; yet in another it is like the early formation of the gut in sea-urchin development .
25 We must allow and support the ethnic rights of local people to use their traditional resources , however distasteful it is to our urban and Western prejudices .
26 Okay to say how similar it is to one thing to another .
27 The year provides students with a personal knowledge of American culture , making them aware not only of its European origins but also of how distinct it is from its parent cultures .
28 As such it is of benefit to the whole organism and all its genes .
29 As such it is of great interest to the oil companies but for China the discovery of a province as big as the North Sea province or the Alaskan province would be of inestimable importance .
30 Although browsing may be considered as an alternative to the matching approach provided by keyword searching , in the online context it is equivalent to browsing the system 's indexes and as such it is of limited value .
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