Example sentences of "n't [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is n't about the dead hand of the past , the unsettled guilt-edged accounts of history returning to haunt the present . |
| 2 | It is n't about the dress at all — it 's a personal matter . ’ |
| 3 | But most of his lessons , to my surprise , are n't about the human body being a machine : they are about hospital administration . |
| 4 | And the the charge the pence in the pound , and I do n't about the forget the rateable value . |
| 5 | Entire and accessible to the front of his mind was what he had been trying to recall his wife had said about the picture , but it was n't about the picture . |
| 6 | But Lerner 's paper is n't about the obsessive types . |
| 7 | Now , you wo n't about the Wrexham . |
| 8 | Er the er the insides have got to be kept clean it does n't about the surroundings are dirty so you know , it 's quite okay to you know , throw your half-eaten bread out ! |
| 9 | My attitude is that if a band manages to release a second album of poor songs four months after their first album left number one in the charts , it is n't worth the rush . |
| 10 | They hope it will prove so complex and costly to implement that the company may finally decide that mining in Mayo simply is n't worth the trouble . |
| 11 | She was glad she had not got one ; it was n't worth the trauma . |
| 12 | She was n't worth the effort , he decided . |
| 13 | I heard her say I ai n't worth the air I breathe . ’ |
| 14 | It was n't worth the fine , so I retreated to climb every escalator , dream the impossible dream of a store in which silent night meant peace to shop , and not another glutinous accompaniment to wassailing wallets . |
| 15 | This is such hard work that you may decide that it is n't worth the effort and abandon your attempt to acquire the skills in question . |
| 16 | So far as I am concerned , wet-weather ferreting is n't worth the effort . |
| 17 | You 'll get nothing out of him , the man 's practically penniless , and he is n't worth the trouble . ’ |
| 18 | If the rating is not marked on the switch or volume control it is n't worth the risk . |
| 19 | ‘ The place is n't worth the £800 , let alone £320,000 , ’ said Mary , who lives there with her 10-year-old son . |
| 20 | With his visibility problems aggravated by the scar tissue around his eyes , he could n't see ; he thought it was just stupid to race under these conditions ; the world championship was n't worth the risk involved . |
| 21 | At some point during all this nonsense Meehan stormed out of the court , shouting that his free pardon was n't worth the paper it was printed on . |
| 22 | This would n't always be the case — the pigeon might be able to take cover and elude the peregrine , but the peregrine might equally decide that it was n't worth the chase . |
| 23 | they 're a band you love to hate , far more than the Manic Street Preachers , who crave to be loathed but simply are n't worth the effort . |
| 24 | We signed a year 's lease on this place but it ai n't worth the paper it 's written on . |
| 25 | It was n't worth the arguments with her husband , she 'd reasoned . |
| 26 | In the same vein of concentrated analysis ( and again , with rather an insufficiency of music examples ) Oliver Neighbour considers the authorship of certain anonymous keyboard pieces , most particularly a transcription of Byrd 's ‘ O quam gloriosum est regnum ’ Its procedures demonstrate the activity of a master hand ( not inconceivably Byrd 's own ) even if only to satisfy himself that the exercise was n't worth the candle . |
| 27 | ‘ We thought she was n't worth the bother of watching . ’ |
| 28 | It really was n't worth the effort . |
| 29 | Frankly , it is n't worth the memory space it takes up , as improvements with other than database programs are imperceptible , and access with database files are n't speeded up very noticeably . |
| 30 | • many valuations ( independently prepared of not ) were n't worth the paper they were written on . |