Example sentences of "[vb base] 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 | For a good lively read it is worth dipping into The Whitbread Rugby World ‘ 90 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | P You know it 's like living in a moving caravan , but you 're coming along anyway ! ( not acceptable for shared yacht bookings ) |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , I know it 's like crying wolf , ’ Harriet nodded . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I believe it is worth taking a chance that FLOWN , who has plenty in hand at his best , goes on the ground . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We feel it 's worth staying here just to order breakfast by the pool ! |
| 12 | Now that so many other pubs sell cask ale , I feel it is worth reminding people to continue supporting those which pioneered the trend . |
| 13 | and anything that needs to be photocopied you 've got er a teacher resource it 's about feeling nervous , you know , what can you do ? |
| 14 | Before I start it is worth pointing out that this problem is largely restricted to the users of the Apple Macintosh — PC-based software running under either Windows or GEM seems to be rather better behaved although , in the case of the former , installing downloadable fonts is so much of a pain that many people simply do n't bother anyway ! |
| 15 | I think it 's for taking stuff to the factory and that . |
| 16 | I think it 's worth looking at . |
| 17 | Er on the envi environmental aspect , I think it 's worth emphasizing because clearly this is the major concern of both Scotton and er the Residents ' Association and er that the County Council has and perhaps to some extent I think it 's certainly the public consultations or the exercises I 've been involved in at this stage in a major scheme has done far more work in trying to assess those effects than is normally the case at this stage in a ma major highway scheme . |
| 18 | No , but I think it 's worth knowing |
| 19 | But I I mean we I do n't know whether you think it 's worth contacting or not . |
| 20 | Peskibe continues to thrive , operational profits there are now well over a million a week and I think it 's worth remembering that one subscriber may have three subscriptions say to two movie channels and one sports channels and if you count these individually , it means that we now have four point nine million subscriptions achieved during the second worst recession , recession this century . |
| 21 | I erm , I think it 's worth correcting some of the financial mistakes again , that Mr , and then perhaps give him some more facts on that . |
| 22 | We might look at it and think it 's worth doing it 's interesting . |
| 23 | I think it 's worth identifying cos it might sort of alleviate this sort of problem |
| 24 | I think it 's worth investigating . ’ |
| 25 | It is a question of priorities and what people , you think it 's worth paying for . |
| 26 | Erm , I think it 's worth saying that er us j just reiterating on what councillor has just said and that is that I think most tenants are very well aware of the right to buy and er er the motion being unnecessary but what happens with the motion is that it possibly attracts people who really in many ways can not actually afford to buy er to take advantage of their rights but who might be persuaded by very persuasive tactics to do so . |
| 27 | Yes , we have a parent governor , a teacher governor and a student governor and I think it 's worth saying that our student governor was elected by thirteen hundred out of our sixteen hundred children this year . |
| 28 | Well a very ordinary thing has happened there , but it has happened on such an extraordinary scale that I think it 's worth saying . |
| 29 | I think it 's worth having a chicken for the soup do you ? |
| 30 | Sorry , I think it 's worth noting some of the circumstances giving rise to Mrs Brown er committing the offences which bring her before the court today . |