Example sentences of "it be worth [v-ing] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | if it 's worth trying to hit anything I was on top of him |
| 3 | It 's worth pausing to examine the peculiar animosity which Rushdie seems to arouse , quite unconnected with Muslim wrath at his supposed blasphemy . |
| 4 | And it 's worth remembering to carry the nuts in a soft cloth bag and not a rustling plastic one . |
| 5 | It 's worth going to see is n't it ? |
| 6 | send the photograph and that gives me an idea whether it 's worth going to look at it at all . |
| 7 | It is worth getting to know and recognize the small black blob-like chrysalis that adheres to stems and leaf stalks because it can very easily be mistaken for caterpillar or similar droppings and knocked away . |
| 8 | Even so , it is worth getting to know and keeping a sharp look out for the signs from as early as May on , because if you act quickly enough it is possible to stop the attack before it spreads through the rest of the foliage by picking off , and , this is important , burning the infected parts . |
| 9 | Before going on to ask what happens in area 17 , it is worth digressing to point out that things are rather different in other vertebrates . |
| 10 | Before exploring the history of the dispute itself , it is worth pausing to ask why no men were working the Monotype machines . |
| 11 | Before looking at the day-to-day working of the system in London and Birmingham , it is worth pausing to describe the role of the school care committees , for in both cities they were the vital link in the attempt to make the transition an educational rather than an industrial process . |
| 12 | It is worth pausing to look at the degree of crowd disorder associated with these sports and the possible reasons for such profiles . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is worth pausing to consider ‘ deindustrialization ’ , the destruction of what Row thorn ( 1986 ) calls a ‘ workshop economy ’ , and of the role of space in this as identified by Massey ( 1984 ) . |
| 15 | However , it is worth pausing to question whether ‘ independence ’ in this AL is actually attainable by any adult person , irrespective of mental and physical ability . |
| 16 | It is worth trying to retain , in the ways McHale suggests , limits to the meaning of the term postmodernism . |
| 17 | Usually , these are sold in bulk to a dealer who can handle large quantities but it is worth trying to do a deal on smaller quantities if you can get in on the ground floor , so to speak . |
| 18 | These results may be due to chance , but the figures suggest that it is worth trying to do semi-automatic correction . |
| 19 | It is worth trying to get a distribution company to take your record on . |
| 20 | If the water is very low when you are constructing your map it is worth trying to imagine what the water will be like during a winter flood . |
| 21 | If you are being selected for redundancy in preference to one or more of your colleagues , it is worth trying to find out why . |
| 22 | Obviously it is worth trying to pin-point the cause of failure but that is quite independent of the amount of investment that has been made . |
| 23 | This situation is very difficult to handle and it is worth trying to avoid early escalation of treatment with sulphonylureas and then progressing to insulin . |
| 24 | This is a good start , but there will still be quite considerable differences within the remaining group and it is worth checking to see if you can usefully angle your basic release to fit at least some of these requirements . |
| 25 | In an ideal environment all the people within a single organisation would use the same software but as the ideal is seldom achieved it is worth checking to see if a package can at least handle the industry standard DIF ( Data Interchange Format ) file format . |
| 26 | It is worth reiterating to look out for cosmetic ranges labelled ‘ non-comedogenic ’ . |
| 27 | As a final comment it is worth attempting to put the accountability debate in some perspective . |
| 28 | He gaily continued to offend and reoffend , to the point where the police wondered whether it was worth bothering to pick him up . |
| 29 | Signs like these were enough to convince educated contemporaries that it was worth trying to maintain the pressure on the authorities which they had already begun to generate . |