Example sentences of "not [prep] the [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | she 's going over at half past eleven and she said to me if it 's not worth the money I 'm not changing and er , I shall tell him that I 've certainly got to go on the books you know |
| 2 | Since women are not worth the booze you buy them |
| 3 | ‘ There comes a time when it 's not worth the commitment you 've got to give ’ — ALEX WYLLIE ( retired All Black coach ) . |
| 4 | One reason for this resistance might be the common idea that language is ‘ trivial ’ , so linguistic reforms are not worth the trouble they cause . |
| 5 | All the carefully prepared summaries and analyses were not worth the paper they were printed on . |
| 6 | However , even when legal principles are committed to one constitutional document , set out in legal codes or reiterated by judges over time , they tend to remain highly ambiguous and not worth the paper they are printed on until somebody — the judiciary — interprets and defers to them in their judgments , and somebody else — the executive — enforces those judgments . |
| 7 | One , one might argue that erm one might argue that there is a cynical implication thereupon , one might argue that but , but in i i in exactly the same way at the moment you might argue that all the assurances they 've given on Hong Kong are , are not worth the paper they 're written on and , and , and as soon as the , soon as you get through to nineteen ninety seven they 'll walk in . |
| 8 | ‘ Without the money to pay for your promises , your manifesto is not worth the paper it is written on , ’ said Mr Lamont . |
| 9 | He did not feel that he would want to return to university , so he decided to apply for an unclassed ‘ War Honours ’ degree — ‘ probably not worth the paper it 's written on ’ , but perhaps enough to get him started in some profession , such as colonial service or , possibly , journalism ; he rather liked the idea of becoming a parliamentary correspondent for a newspaper . |
| 10 | The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea , Rabbie Namaliu , rejected the independence declaration as invalid , unlawful and " not worth the paper it is written on " . |
| 11 | A MINISTERIAL assurance of Government cash to extend two Darlington schools is not worth the paper it is written on , Labour 's education spokeswoman , Hilary Armstrong , claimed yesterday . |
| 12 | Once that is decided , the unimportant trifles are put firmly in their place , not worth worrying about , not worth the attention they clamour for . |
| 13 | Well he he he was a sinful person , as we all are erm , I think he did not as the way I understand it , you know Jesus came perfect in everything but he had a he had a a message to give and he could give it better , I think because he had experienced so many things . |
| 14 | I assure the hon. Gentleman that the smile was not about the issue he was raising . |
| 15 | Only she did n't need to think about it , not really , not about the lovemaking itself at any rate — it was indelibly printed on her mind in glorious Technicolor . |
| 16 | For once the camera did lie , not about the beauty she was becoming but in camouflaging the vulnerable personality behind her effortless capacity to dazzle . |
| 17 | However , I would not be here were it not for the Certificate which I shall outline briefly to you . |
| 18 | After a divorce there is a terrible sense of loneliness — not for the person you married but just being on your own . |
| 19 | If not for the operation it would only be a matter of months before she had to go on Dialysis . |
| 20 | It 's certainly not for the spectacle which peaks with three dozen chinese lanterns and a sprinkling of fairy lights in the stalls . |
| 21 | Firstly , the plaintiff was compensated for the loss he suffered as a result of the injury , not for the injury itself . |
| 22 | ‘ But not for the reason you think . |
| 23 | Oh , yes , thought Juliet , I 'm worried , but not for the reason you think . |
| 24 | She hesitated , but not for the reason he imagined . |
| 25 | She did need rescuing , though not for the reason he imagined . |
| 26 | Nuno 's ability is a matter of opinion , but the point about the Trantec ads is a matter of fact , although not for the reason your correspondent quotes . |
| 27 | Imaginative writers know as an important item in their craft , that the way to convey emotion with most lucidity and particularity is to choose the apt words , not for the emotion itself , but for the image or scene which activates it . |
| 28 | I do not know how I shall manage this winter and dread it not for the weather which is rarely fierce , but for the loneliness . |
| 29 | Riva would not hear them , were it not for the fact they speak in the same language , use the same gestures , and wear the same scars or armbands as her saints . |
| 30 | ‘ He did n't like to admit he 'd got hooked — not after the way he 'd been going on . |