Example sentences of "[is] [prep] [verb] [conj] a " in BNC.

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1 Course it 's worth bothering because a lot of young men that was unemployed come down to the school where I 'm the caretaker and they said , we know that you 're running short is there any chance of getting in on the scene ?
2 It is worth remembering that a sparrow has more vertebrae in its neck than a giraffe .
3 When trying to date an early key , it is worth remembering that a distinctive feature of a Roman key is the placing of the bow horizontal in relation to the shank .
4 It is worth remembering that a deeply discounted rights issue is merely one which has had some of the qualities of a scrip issue added to it .
5 It is worth emphasizing that a fit is made to pulse measurements extending over more than a decade , i.e. over 3 x 10 8 s , with an accuracy to 10 7minus4 S or better !
6 ‘ It is worth emphasising that a return to first principles of traffic safety for children does not give support for the abolition of shared space ’ approaches in favour of either ‘ Radburn'-style pedestrian-vehicle segregation … nor a return to Roads In Urban Areas ’ styles of design with relatively wide , fast roads in residential areas ’
7 It is worth seeing whether a historical development can be detected .
8 While this increase is startling , it is worth noting that a concern over ‘ crime waves ’ , and rising levels of juvenile crime in particular , is not a new phenomenon .
9 For the longer term , it is worth noting that a number of the member states have a more independent system of audit , under which a company 's accounts are audited , not by its own accountants , but by auditors who primarily owe a public interest duty .
10 It is worth noting that a number of subjects did not answer the b question in terms of truth or falsehood of fact , but according to what the speaker , in asking the preceding question , had appeared to presuppose .
11 It is worth noting that a difference in temperature is the same for both scales .
12 It is worth noting that a matching problem arises akin to that discussed in Section 15.3 ; the sample can be selected to mimic the population distribution of stratifying variables either individually or in combination .
13 Without wishing to get too involved in technicalities , it is worth explaining that a fail-safe structure is one in which there are one or more pieces of redundant structure ( i.e. not subject to loading in normal flight ) which are capable of carrying the flight loads in the event of a failure of the primary load bearing structure .
14 Information is correct at the time of going to press , but museums may have to vary their hours from time to time and it is worth checking before a special visit is made , especially around Christmas , Easter and Bank Holidays .
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