Example sentences of "[verb] it [is] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legal experts say it is worth protecting cheques until the new laws come in by making the alterations . |
| 2 | If the system has succeeded it is by enhancing that control . |
| 3 | Before discussing the evidence from research into the subjective risk experienced when driving it is worth clarifying the term subjective risk . |
| 4 | As they are the most common form met with in burial vaults it is worth looking at their construction in detail . |
| 5 | He says we ca n't until we 're properly married in the eyes of God as well as man ; he says it 's worth waiting for . |
| 6 | She says it 's like standing on the edge of a crevasse . |
| 7 | Unisys says it is considering making the software available to non-Unisys servers . |
| 8 | The old certainties that ruled computer industry analysis over the past 30 years are tumbling like autumn leaves , and commercial realities are now eating away at the traditional determination of Japanese companies to forget the bottom line and stick with major product sectors for the long term : Sony Corp says it is considering pulling out of Japan 's competitive word processor market to save the cost of developing and manufacturing new models , Reuter reports from Tokyo ; Sony began making word processors in 1985 and production reached a peak of 10,000 a month ; NEC Corp , Toshiba Corp , Fujitsu Ltd and Sharp Corp now dominate the market and Sony currently makes just 500 of the things a month , a drop in the 1992 market ocean of 2.6m machines . |
| 9 | Meat should not be eaten more than once a day ; and fish is increasingly thought of as healthier — oily fish is useful in the prevention of heart disease and arthritis — and you may feel it is worth substituting fish for meat as a main meal twice a week . |
| 10 | trained and nevertheless it is a disturbing thing and the development of this County has to do , not only with businesses succeeding and also with people who are actually making those businesses work and the only way you can do it is by having people employed doing useful things . |
| 11 | The only way you can do it is by pleading . |
| 12 | Essentially they will send a form out saying You 've recently got a grant estate , you 've said it 's worth say twenty five thousand pounds , we 're checking up please let us have a list of assets and liabilities . |
| 13 | For a good lively read it is worth dipping into The Whitbread Rugby World ‘ 90 . |
| 14 | Even if you are running an existing home accounts package it is worth having a look at this one , I feel confident that you will want to change . |
| 15 | Indeed , the only real way one can pinpoint it is by saying that in it the notion of suspense , of repeated and ever-growing suspense , predominates . |
| 16 | You 'll never guess it 's for collecting gases so we call it a |
| 17 | pulls you up do that goes that way , does that goes that way so you 're upside down you see , you 've not only got weight and gravity pulling you down you 've also got the thrust of the engine pulling you down as well , and the only way the helicopters going to be able to do it is by getting enough height so they can sort of drop like that and they start dropping and they can just pull it back |
| 18 | Well instead of going and destroying utility plants such as power plants and desalination plants , there are actually easier way and a less expensive way to do it is by attacking like sub-stations which erm actually you do n't destroy the power plant , you just destroy the erm source where you can distribute electricity to the whole country . |
| 19 | Pelota is a confusing and various game , and before going to watch it being played it is worth reading up on the technique and the scoring , if you want to follow it . |
| 20 | There are others who insist that games and exercises per se have no place in the drama lesson , that the best way to learn about drama and to learn how to use it is by doing it , that if the drama itself is powerful and effective there is no need to prepare children for it by doing something else . |
| 21 | P You know it 's like living in a moving caravan , but you 're coming along anyway ! ( not acceptable for shared yacht bookings ) |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , I know it 's like crying wolf , ’ Harriet nodded . |
| 23 | If you or your child are affected it is worth asking the doctor to change you to another type of antihistamine . |
| 24 | In this passage the Wordsworthian echoes of subject-matter and vocabulary are remarkable , though I suppose it is worth pointing out that Virginia Woolf was the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen , an ‘ agnostic mountaineer ’ whose interests owed a great deal to the reading of Wordsworth . |
| 25 | His diary has been well edited : to read it is like looking into a large egg-shell full of bubbles . |
| 26 | 18 carat gold is becoming more and more popular for gold jewellery and for something as special as your wedding ring it is worth spending that little bit more . |
| 27 | And therefore I believe it 's worth making the effort to use non-sexist language , because no one notices , and using sexist language may just offend and put off one or two . |
| 28 | I believe it is worth taking a chance that FLOWN , who has plenty in hand at his best , goes on the ground . |
| 29 | This is a major problem in the Sahel zone where cash cropping has been mooted by Earth Report ( 1988 ) as one of the major causes of environmental degradation , and while the case presented may be oversimplified it is worth reiterating since cash cropping in general is not ( if past performance is taken as a measure ) the answer to Africa 's development problems . |
| 30 | I 'll pass on this one and leave interested parties to contact John Watson , though I guess it 's worth adding that NME 's ‘ Dancing Master ’ cassette is now a collector 's item mainly because it contains a live U2 cut , ‘ An Cut Dubh ’ , recorded in March , 1981 and unavailable on an authorised recording . |