Example sentences of "not worth the [noun] [pers pn] " 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 . |