Example sentences of "not worth the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally it 's not worth the candle to try and dodge the revenue authorities . |
| 2 | It was not worth the plaintiff suing the driver as he was uninsured and had no money . |
| 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 | You can eat it but it 's small with hardly any flesh so it 's not worth the effort to collect . |
| 5 | Now this is where I think the Japanese score dramatically , they spend many many hours defining things which we say it 's not worth the effort to define . |