Example sentences of "not [prep] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ Most people have a jaundiced idea of sermons as boring and not worth listening to . |
| 2 | That 's not to say that it 's not worth listening to : it clearly is , and it grows larger the more you hear it . |
| 3 | But if I do n't have nine I 'm not worth talking to , really . |
| 4 | Well on previous experience er , that 's not worth going to . |
| 5 | Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) : ‘ The point Director of Studies is making is , are our good pupils pushed enough … is it not worth saying to them , ‘ invest in paints ’ ? ’ |
| 6 | The teacher is condemned , not for trying to be strong , but for being unsuccessful in her attempt to reassert authority : |
| 7 | Well , then we went to the theatre ( I am sorry to make such a letter of it , but is it not like going to one of the Basingstoke Assemblies with Jane Austen ? ) . |
| 8 | In order to catch and hold students ' attention , Minton was not above resorting to certain tricks . |
| 9 | I guess it was like the primitive interrogation techniques both malais and FAKINTIL were not above resorting to : you could see the stratagem but that did n't stop it from being effective . |
| 10 | It will have instructed the Parliamentary Draftsman on the preparation of the Bill ; he will have drafted it ( though probably not without returning to the department on a number of occasions for clarification of instructions or to point out to the department any legal or constitutional difficulties encountered in implementing the instructions ) . |
| 11 | I know I ca n't run 27:08 , at least not without resorting to recreational narcotics , and I ca n't honestly see myself reaching the real top level at 10,000m . |
| 12 | He looked slightly abstracted ; and I noticed for the first time that his habit of addressing remarks with head bowed — often appearing to contemplate the floor or the ‘ figure in the carpet ’ — had begun to bring about that slight spinal curvature which became accentuated later in life though not without adding to his dignity of bearing . |
| 13 | One of the accusations used and levelled against er against Christianity against the , the evangelical message , against things like the , the mission of Graham and , and others is that it , it does n't meet the needs the , the material needs of people but if you deal with the persons spiritual needs , if their sins are forgiven , those problems that are causing the material problem , it 's amazing how there are dealt with as well , the best way to sober up a person , the best way to deal with a person who 's an alcoholic , the best way to deal with a person who is a drug addict , the best way to deal with a person who , who commits adultery is not by telling them the wrongs of those things , it 's not by trying to , to , to do , to , to , you know , to , to counsel them it 's presenting the gospel allowing Jesus Christ to come into their lives and to forgive them , that will make the person sober quicker than all the counselling in the world and Paul says I brought you the most important the fundamental thing , that Christ died for our sins Paul again when he 's writing to the Romans in chapter five and verse eight he says but God demonstrates his own love towards us , in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us so God did in Jesus Christ what we could n't do for ourselves , so all of you have sin , so all of my sin , and he came and he died on the cross and as he was dying there was that transmit there , for he was n't dying for his own sin buy he was dying for your sin and for mine , it was all piled on him and so when we except what Christ has done , when we come to that place and yes I believe that you died for me , |