Example sentences of "but it is [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may sound far-fetched but it is surely worth considering as a co-operative European venture . |
| 2 | Townshend is most famous for beating his guitar against speaker stacks , but it is also worth remembering that , on stage at The Ricky Tick Club , Windsor , in May 1966 , he attempted the same stunt against the head of Keith Moon . |
| 3 | But it is also worth while to check up at other times , because there is still a great deal about Epsilon Aurigæ which we do not know , and it may not shine quite steadily at any time . |
| 4 | It is worth spending some thinking time even on such apparent contradictions , but it is also worth examining problems to see whether they are difficult to solve simply because they demand the satisfaction of opposites at the same time . |
| 5 | But it is also worth noting that evidence has been found of burials and drainage channels that appears to be pre-date any of the recorded cathedral buildings , and it now looks as if the site has a longer ecclesiastical history than was thought . ’ |
| 6 | This level of interactivity is the most flexible but it is also of course the most expensive and the most complex to use . |
| 7 | But it is also about the unstable evolution both of homo erectus and his culture , all of which may be a vast illusion if what man does is simply continue his savagery while trying to repeat faint echoes of some suspect original grandeur . |
| 8 | The argument may seem to be about tactics ; but it is also about leadership . |
| 9 | It is indeed , but it is also about trade between Kuwait and Wales . |
| 10 | But it is also on him that many say the group 's future success hinges . |
| 11 | The difference is part luck and part circumstance ; but it is also in the driver 's mind . |
| 12 | In Latin America other schools of thought have arisen , such as those of Masi and Orthega , but it is yet to be demonstrated that they are any more effective than the guidelines laid down by Hahnemann in the sixth edition of his Organon of Rational Healing . |
| 13 | When he fragments and decomposes the objects in his still lifes and landscapes , it is not in order to strip form bare or to disengage some essential quality , but it is rather as a means of creating a completely new kind of pictorial space . |
| 14 | But it is exactly in phrases like this that one sees Tolkien playing with medieval notions of style , with ‘ loose semantic fit ’ , with a personal view of poetry . |
| 15 | We propose that that process should be concluded not later than April , but it is immensely to be hoped that it can be done far more speedily . |
| 16 | But it is firmly against heavy-handed regulation , such as a sharp increase in mandatory fuel efficiency for cars . |
| 17 | Borrowing looks an odd route to a ‘ balanced ’ budget , but it is mostly within the letter of the law . |
| 18 | It is just a little above that of Germany , but it is well below the EC average . |
| 19 | It is not easy to find training places on suitable farms , but it is well worth the search . |
| 20 | But it is well worth exploring the possibility as provision of care varies , depending on local resources . |
| 21 | ‘ Fostering is not an instant thing , ’ warned Jane , but it is well worth the wait . |
| 22 | We have already discussed this in relation to the acute anxiety spiral but it is well worth repeating that avoidance , prior to encountering the full experience of the feared situation , occurs because of what the person believes is going to happen . |
| 23 | Letts , of course , has moved in the other direction , into book publishing ( Blackwells ' Art & Poster Shop has seen a 500% increase in turnover of sales of their books this year , John Harvey-Jones please note ) , but it is well worth stocking Letts ' unbeatable range of the more traditional diaries for which it is so rightly famous . |
| 24 | It may take courage , it may take discipline — but it is well worth the effort . |
| 25 | Situated on the hillside which rises above the port of modern Thessaloniki the Church of the Holy Apostles is not easy to find amidst the poorer districts of the town , but it is well worth the effort of searching . |
| 26 | It wo n't be easy , but it is well within their grasp . |
| 27 | I have seen the report and am considering its implications carefully , but it is just worth pointing out that in 11 of the past 12 Budgets we have taken steps to encourage employee share ownership to the extent that by the end of March last year about 2.25 million employees had benefited under all employee share schemes and had received options or shares with an initial value of £6.5 billion . |
| 28 | But it is nevertheless worth looking at one market in some detail — that for grains . |
| 29 | Delay of this sort can also adversely affect the efficient conduct of government business ; but it is largely outside the control of either party or even of the courts themselves . |
| 30 | Amities. ’ , a joyful enough shout , but it is downhill after that . |