Example sentences of "is worth [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using some scraps of board , it is worth experimenting with exposure times to optimise the UV time period . |
| 2 | In this situation , it is worth comparing in detail the advantages of continuing the development of the unit exactly as required but on a limited range of systems , as against modifying the design so that it can be implemented on a wider range . |
| 3 | But it is worth investing in brand new , state-of-the-art equipment for what is argued by some to be an unhealthy form of cooking ? |
| 4 | Only the second type is a chaotic motion , but the first is worth mentioning for comparison . |
| 5 | The line of dramatic form running from primitive arrow dance to Pinero is worth bearing in mind . |
| 6 | So it is worth bearing in mind , when considering the later reign of ‘ the Scot who was a Frenchwoman ’ , that the story of Albany frantically ‘ cramming ’ on Scottish chronicles on the ship which brought him from France is a good pointer to the attitude of a man who managed , with some success , to understand and deal with the domestic problems of Scotland , even while caught in the intolerable welter of shifting relations between France and England , with their rival demands for Scottish support . |
| 7 | But it is worth bearing in mind that he is a fine iron player and , until his seven at the 10th hole in the third round of the Players ' Championship , he was jointly leading the field . |
| 8 | It is worth bearing in mind , too , that a judgment in the industrial tribunal may bind the High Court and vice versa . |
| 9 | It is worth bearing in mind , however , that the de-criminalising of an activity ( the removing of an activity from the scope of criminal law ) does not mean that it necessarily becomes generally accepted . |
| 10 | It is worth bearing in mind that reformers chose compulsory part-time day continuation schools as the principal means through which to preach the effectiveness of the doctrine . |
| 11 | It is worth bearing in mind that , in terms of the wider system , the data on the forms was subject to a number of validation checks , and failure of the procedure at section level would not have had any disastrous consequences . |
| 12 | It is worth bearing in mind , though , that his three oceans are in fact all part of one , and that their individual behaviours are all part of the overall behaviour of the planet 's hydrosphere , where all winds and currents , ambient temperatures and barometric pressures — and , just possibly , all human behaviour too — are part of one hugely complicated , ever-mobile , mathematically-insufferable and only marginally predictable global machine . |
| 13 | To pursue the question of whether that is so , would go beyond the limits of the present discussion , but it is worth bearing in mind , when the relations are discussed of biology to the social sciences , that an essential social science is likely to prove to be history . |
| 14 | Our efforts to meet the company have so far been unsuccessful , but as far as we understand from the AEU ( which has a single union agreement with Montupet ) , there are no special mechanisms to target recruitment and training on the unemployed and it is worth bearing in mind that the code of practice of the new Fair Employment Act puts the idea of the merit principle above that of equality of outcome or the achievement of social justice . |
| 15 | Above all , it is worth bearing in mind that Britton 's work has little to say directly about writing development . |
| 16 | Finally , it is worth bearing in mind that if , as now seems likely , the process of cephalization occurred independently in several arthropodan lineages ( see p.5 ) , interpretations of the head which rely on comparisons between the insects and other arthropod groups no longer have the validity ascribed to them in the past . |
| 17 | In this connection it is worth bearing in mind that a hospital birth will be recorded in the registration district in which the hospital stands and not in the district which contains the parents ' home . |
| 18 | It is worth bearing in mind just how much data we are talking about . |
| 19 | It is worth bearing in mind that disputes are likely to arise not out of the terms themselves , but , often , because one party seeks to escape from the effect of the contract . |
| 20 | However , it really is worth persisting with flash . |
| 21 | However , it really is worth persisting with flash . |
| 22 | One of the many compliments that can be paid this finely produced book is that it is worth reading from cover to cover . |
| 23 | If such people with planned social care can be kept in their own homes it is worth pressing for flexibility of resources to put in the extra help needed . |
| 24 | For an insight on the complex intertwining of religious , political , and constitutional elements , it is worth quoting at length from a newspaper account which , despite some odd punctuation and grammar , gives the gist of Paisley 's speech : |
| 25 | In an affidavit , which is worth quoting at length — if only because information of this kind is so rare from the pen of a security officer — Massiter stated : |
| 26 | It is worth quoting at length for a number of reasons : it is the only detailed eyewitness account available of a CPRS Chequers presentation to ministers during the Review Staff 's thirteen-year life ; and , perhaps most important of all , it captures the banality and desperation of top-level discussions on intractable problems at a time of crisis . |
| 27 | Despite its state-centrism , it is worth quoting at length as it catches some key specifics of the practices of the communications industries ' project for global consumerism . |
| 28 | It is worth arriving at midday for a positive fanfare . |
| 29 | This is a major problem in the Sahel zone where cash cropping has been mooted by Earth Report ( 1988 ) as one of the major causes of environmental degradation , and while the case presented may be oversimplified it is worth reiterating since cash cropping in general is not ( if past performance is taken as a measure ) the answer to Africa 's development problems . |
| 30 | There is no need to go quite that far with the pop scribes of this world , but the principle is worth keeping in mind . |