Example sentences of "that it [is] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last month I tried to convince you that it 's worth knowing more about the Windows INI ( initialization ) files . |
| 2 | Mention has been made to the paperwork , I think that it 's worth reminding ourselves that a lot of the paperwork that has been generated , is a direct result of Conservative government introduced legislation , particularly cri criminal justice er , legislation , which requires a considerable amount of paperwork , erm , to be completed by officers , quite often in long , in longhand , and not making use of technology , where in fact they er , a great deal of time and effort could be con , er could be er , saved . |
| 3 | A couple of handfuls scattered over the area surrounding the sett , an hour or two before dusk , will often convince the resident brocks that it 's worth staying a while longer before going off to forage . |
| 4 | So erm that 's , if you 're , if you 're getting behind on that it 's worth trying to do something about it soonish before you get too far behind to manage to catch up |
| 5 | Or you could go in and say , ‘ Listen , , can I suggest two or three aspects of this that it 's worth covering ? |
| 6 | I do n't feel that it 's worth doing . |
| 7 | Things like that it 's for letting that 's what words are for well numbers are for telling other people how much you how much do you Would you like a cup of coffee ? |
| 8 | I feel that it 's about creating the warmth and security at home , in school , wherever they are , from outside to help build up their sense of warmth and security from within , and to enable them to learn how to deal with some of these issues so that they can cope with the difficulties of life when they grow up . |
| 9 | It 's often put that hunting is good for the countryside that it 's about controlling foxes the scientific evidence rather puts that to pay the scientific evidence certainly indicates that fox hunting makes very little difference to control of foxes in the countryside and there is some evidence to suggest that fox hunting actually encourages more foxes to breed and that we end up with more foxes , so it seems to be self defeating in that respect . |
| 10 | It 's such a want when they have been there so long , that it 's like losing a human being . |
| 11 | Looking at this as one of the points of research avoids some of the narrowness of the kind of conception that has tended to dominate thinking about social research , namely that it is about testing theoretical explanations of the facts . |
| 12 | One of the many compliments that can be paid this finely produced book is that it is worth reading from cover to cover . |
| 13 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it is worth pointing out to young children that in 1950 it took a man on average industrial wages a week to earn enough to buy his Christmas turkey and that it now takes a person in a similar position just 90 minutes to do so ? |
| 14 | These questions are so plainly hard to answer that it is worth pausing to consider why they have not had more effect on the development of International Relations theories . |
| 15 | These results may be due to chance , but the figures suggest that it is worth trying to do semi-automatic correction . |
| 16 | Recent advances in medical treatment of HIV mean that some doctors now think that it is worth knowing if you have an HIV infection . |
| 17 | There is so much to see that it is worth buying a good guide book . |
| 18 | You may have to convince your client that it is worth bearing part of the cost of an expensive expert if their input into the case is going significantly to increase your chances of success or the amount of the award . |
| 19 | But so wide are the left 's woes — in the past few years , they have affected socialist parties from Britain at one end of Europe to Greece at the other — that it is worth considering the possibility that something else is at work , too : the body of ideas that socialists used to represent has lost so much electoral support that socialist parties , at least in their old guise , are doomed . |
| 20 | The story behind the rumour is so curious , however , that it is worth telling nonetheless . |
| 21 | Which shows that it is worth complaining instead of just accepting a raw deal . |
| 22 | If screaming for sweets in the supermarket can occasionally be successful the child learns that it is worth having a go every time they pass the supermarket checkout . |
| 23 | The problems of equipment-cost inflation have become so crucial in Defence planning that it is worth recalling briefly how the British weapon procurement system works . |
| 24 | But if the importance of a facade to a street has been recognized once , the argument that it is worth retaining for its contribution to the townscape must be upheld . |
| 25 | Although the technology was not microprocessor-based , and the events are now thirty years past , the study 's theoretical approach and empirical findings are of such interest and relevance that it is worth describing them in some detail . |
| 26 | This was only a small-scale study but the results are so striking that it is worth speculating on some of the possible causes of gender bias in the classroom . |
| 27 | I am certain that it is worth concentrating on a fishery for several seasons . |
| 28 | Indeed , manufacturing capability seems to have such a major impact on product development that it is worth examining in greater detail . |
| 29 | Accidents due to swinging on take-off and landing are so common that it is worth studying the causes in detail . |
| 30 | Guardian readers are sufficiently interesting and distinctive that it is worth tolerating the statistical uncertainties caused by our small sample and the Guardian 's small readership . |