Example sentences of "n't [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An Alliance Party worker said : ‘ The election in Northern Ireland is n't about a penny off income tax or hospital beds . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | Now , you wo n't about the Wrexham . |
| 4 | It is n't about the dress at all — it 's a personal matter . ’ |
| 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 | The cults in this country are n't worth a damn , we all know that . |
| 7 | ‘ Then our lives are n't worth a beggar 's shit . ’ |
| 8 | After a clash with ITV interviewer Gary Newbon , Benn rounded on the ‘ armchair critics who said I 'm washed up ’ and blasted : ‘ They are n't worth a hand job . ’ |
| 9 | the feathers have a certain length of life and that 's it , they 've had it , and it is n't worth the mess anyway |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Nuclear workers told cancer risk is n't worth the worry . |
| 12 | I heard her say I ai n't worth the air I breathe . ’ |
| 13 | It was n't worth the responsibility . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You can se , I me , you can see some of them ai n't worth the money though ca n't you ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | You 'll get nothing out of him , the man 's practically penniless , and he is n't worth the trouble . ’ |
| 21 | She was n't worth the effort , he decided . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | So far as I am concerned , wet-weather ferreting is n't worth the effort . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It really was n't worth the effort . |
| 26 | ‘ The place is n't worth the £800 , let alone £320,000 , ’ said Mary , who lives there with her 10-year-old son . |
| 27 | It was n't worth the arguments with her husband , she 'd reasoned . |
| 28 | If the rating is not marked on the switch or volume control it is n't worth the risk . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The experience was painful enough to ensure that no-one did it again ; it simply was n't worth the risk . |