Example sentences of "was not [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not worth the sulk and you 're ashamed of me are n't you that he could keep up for three days when required . |
| 2 | Assailed from both sides , the masher decided that the game was not worth the candle , and , dodging by Neil , to the latter 's great relief , he scuttled off towards the Haymarket . |
| 3 | One foreign ministry clerk in the early years of the twentieth century " soon decided that it was not worth the trouble to go to the office to sleep when I could sleep more comfortably in my own bed or pass my time in more interesting or more amusing tasks " , while an Italian ambassador is said to have spent only fifteen days of a year in residence in a post which he disliked . |
| 4 | Labour supporters in Bristol had considered canvassing known overseas voters but decided it was not worth the expense . |
| 5 | It had not taken long for her to realise that it was not worth the risk of her position and Stephen 's love . |
| 6 | The students at Beida , some of whom were on the verge of taking to the streets , probably feared the possible repercussions and with the end of term imminent , they decided that open protest was not worth the risk . |
| 7 | It was not worth the plaintiff suing the driver as he was uninsured and had no money . |
| 8 | ( He should have won a Nobel Prize for general relativity , but the idea that space and time were curved was still regarded as too speculative and controversial , so they gave him a prize for the photoelectric effect instead — ; not that it was not worth the prize on its own account . ) |
| 9 | Spending most of each day in the house , she had no one except Maria to talk to and Maria was not worth the effort . |
| 10 | For the first time , a public debate began over whether doctors , in consultation with parents , had the right to terminate life because they believed that the life concerned was not worth the living . |
| 11 | It was not beyond the wit of any surgeon worthy of his calling or apothecary worthy of his phial to have been able to perform superficial embalming , and it is highly unlikely that assistance was asked for at the London end . |
| 12 | Yet it was not beyond the power of reason and foresight to know that the days of the Indian Empire were numbered , if not in years , still in decades : the best and the wisest of the British in India had known and said it from the beginning . |
| 13 | 1.2 Extension of the principles In recent years there has been an extension of the principles behind the restraint of trade doctrine so as to embrace : ( a ) restraints in contracts which do not fit neatly into what was hitherto regarded as amounting to a restraint of trade ; ( b ) situations where the contract in question was not between the plaintiff and defendant and to which the plaintiff was not privy although he was affected by the working of the contract ; and ( c ) situations when no contract existed at all but the plaintiff could claim that a set of rules or certain conduct affected him prejudicially . |
| 14 | But when he had finished eating he seemed to want it known that he was not of the company . |
| 15 | So far as the Yek were concerned any man who was not of the race of the True people — the Yek , the N'pani , the Ch'noze — was an alien , barely human , and as such was forever suspect . |
| 16 | Lord Reid went on to point out that this case was not of the type which would usually have been described as in restraint of trade ; there was for example no provision which prevented the plaintiff from working once the contract had run its course . |
| 17 | Even though the defendant knew the names and addresses of all customers , the quality of contact was not of the degree required in order to establish that he was ever regarded as " being the business " or even had any influence over the customers . |
| 18 | An emergency prohibition order was served on the restaurant and joint proprietor Mohammed Uddin , 29 , was later charged with selling an item which was not of the substance of the food demanded by the purchasers . |
| 19 | The warden pointed out that time was not of the essence as it has taken since 1977 to strengthen the bell tower and rehang the bells , all carried out by villagers , needless to say I did not visualise the same time cycle for my part of the job . |
| 20 | It was held that time was not of the essence . |
| 21 | Though , when he did speak , it was not of the detestation of an interview at all , but to enquire loftily , ‘ How do you plan to get to Prague — they 've returned your car ? ’ |
| 22 | Ramsay certainly obtained a kiss and a hug from Mariot in farewell , but in front of the others it was not of the sort to analyse carefully ; indeed he got a similar embrace from Black Agnes . |
| 23 | The Royal Commission rejected the proposal for a number of reasons , and it was not to the fore of government thinking when the Police and Criminal Evidence Bill was being drafted . |
| 24 | When Stewart said the boom in consumer credit during the previous decade had been phenomenal and some said dangerous , the danger to which he was alluding was not to the consumer/borrower who might incur overindebtedness , but to the professional finance houses . |
| 25 | When at length Isambard moved his hands to his belt it was not to the hilt of his sword , but to the buckles from which it hung . |
| 26 | He suddenly felt horribly drunk , but his wits had not altogether left him and he had a nasty inkling that his speech was not to the point . |
| 27 | This was not to the liking of the Social Democrats , who took a more nationalist position , placing national unification above Western allegiance in their order of priorities , and advocating a spurious ‘ third way ’ between East and West , a kind of German ‘ special path ’ . |
| 28 | This made geographical sense : both valleys drain west to the River Lune and the Irish Sea and are separated from the rest of Yorkshire by the barrier of the Pennines ; nevertheless , the breaking of traditional ties was not to the liking of all the inhabitants . |
| 29 | … If there are problems we must and shall follow the path of peace ’ , although this was sound advice , it was not to the liking of his audience . |
| 30 | When he was shown up , it was not to the office of the Internal Accountant , but to that of the General Manager . |