Example sentences of "was not [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Quality of life ’ was at stake , and the courts concluded that Mr. Bland 's life was not worth preserving . |
| 2 | He said that the number of nuclear weapons at the disposal of the United Kingdom was not comparable with theirs and that , therefore , the matter was not worth discussion . |
| 3 | It had only been her bank book , and Edward had been quite right to say that it was not worth reading . |
| 4 | It had passed to Evelina in the days when a Burne-Jones was not worth twopence and goodness knew what Evelina had done with it . |
| 5 | Academic opinion was divided as to the merits of the house ; and Lady Birk , the minister involved , was constantly to refer to ‘ other voices ’ who whispered behind closed doors that the house was not worth saving . |
| 6 | ‘ And yet when you were sick and hungry , wanderin' through the streets , you had reached the point when you thought life was not worth livin' . |
| 7 | He played just two reserve games in December 1990 before Jim Smith , the manager at the time , decided he was not worth £300,000 . |
| 8 | Frequently they give her the exact day they decided life was not worth living , and sometimes even the time of day the decision was made . |
| 9 | Cleo knew it was not beyond Lady Claudia to have her neck wrung in order to remove any threat to the De Belving honour . |
| 10 | That there was no such party this year was not through lack of determination on Cranmer 's part . |
| 11 | Again the Cobblers held them to a goalless draw after being reduced to ten men , but this time it was not through injury : half-back Manning was sent off after twenty-five minutes for tripping Forest 's West from behind . |
| 12 | Thus the immediate issue at stake was not between Moscow and a former Tsarist dependency , but between the Soviet Republic and a hostile Great Power . |
| 13 | For Blake , the true antithesis was not between life and death , but between fallen and unfallen , youth and age , innocence and experience . |
| 14 | To suggest that the struggle was not between science and religion but over cultural leadership may expel the conflict through the front door , but it still returns through the back . |
| 15 | The choice was not between dependence and independence , but between dependence on Moscow or dependence on the bourgeois governments of the capitalist world . |
| 16 | In yesterday 's constituency profile , the picture featured was not of Mrs Jordan . |
| 17 | His canonry was not of Oxford but of Kobe , of the Anglican Church in Japan , but it was the Oxford Diocesan Clergy Cricket side which he captained and ran for 25 years . |
| 18 | The only real threat to them is pressure to sell books that are particularly valuable , as happened to John Ryland 's Library in Manchester a while ago , though that was not of course a private library . |
| 19 | In the case of legacy per damnationem , the legatee was not of course owner , but he was the beneficiary of a civil-law obligation imposed on the heir by the testator : the words used for such a legacy , damnas esto dare , generated a liability at civil law for the heir to make over the property to the legatee . |
| 20 | This was not of course found at the scene , but it was probably a flat plastic box pack , smaller than a crush-proof cigarette-packet , with a single flush button depressed by the ball of the thumb to effect detonation . |
| 21 | The idea was not of course original to Wordsworth , but his expression of it is unusually convincing ; and he is ahead of his time in his recognition of the ‘ subconscious mind ’ — this phrase had not yet come into the language , and Wordsworth 's ‘ workings of the spirit ’ — he has many other phrases — are not always seen to refer to this . |
| 22 | When he finally arrived in Calcutta he was not of course allowed to stay with us at the Sisters , which puzzled you children , but he stayed with the Oxford Mission Fathers and came over every day to see us , until a kindly businessman heard about us and took us along to his palatial house until we could decide what next to do . |
| 23 | Governmental pluralism was not of course peculiar to the early modern period . |
| 24 | This great outlay of capital was not of course achieved simply by the diversion of surplus income from office . |
| 25 | Few who lived when the aristocratic rule of taste prevailed would have questioned Sir Henry Wotton 's definition in the previous century of ‘ Every Man 's proper Mansion House and Home ’ as ‘ the Theatre of his Hospitality , the Seat of Self Fruition , the comfortablest Part of his own Life , the noblest of his Son 's Inheritance , a kind of private Princedom ; nay , to the Possessors thereof , an Epitomy of the whole World ’ , although , on occasions , this was not of course the reality . |
| 26 | Concern about the relation between national power and the strength of the population was not of course new . |
| 27 | Unless the size of the class has been exaggerated , it is , nonetheless , clear that merchant status was not of necessity synonymous with large-scale activities and great fortunes . |
| 28 | But the conversation between Kelly Connor and Nick Morley was not of matters of the heart , but of life , death and horses . |
| 29 | I just wanted a religion in which gender was not of significance . |
| 30 | This back-dating of the appointment was not of significance at the time but it is an early example of how masters in Stockport could come and go without the immediate supervision of the Company . |