Example sentences of "[adv] not worth " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Poems , think them all not worth a Straw . |
| 2 | Robbery enough existed near London , but Southerners may have suspected , especially after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715 , that there was no order or security in the North and so not worth the long , expensive journey there . |
| 3 | A practical lexicographer , however , would probably draw his line in a different place from ours : he might well argue that phrases such as fish and chips , bread and butter , etc. , while undoubtedly slightly opaque in the technical sense , present few problems of interpretation to speakers familiar with the normal constituent meanings of the parts , and are thus not worth listing . |
| 4 | Many trailers are dangerous much above 80 k.p.h. ( 50 m.p.h. ) and it is just not worth taking any chances going much faster . |
| 5 | Indeed , as I mentioned above , there is plenty of evidence from research with the very young infants that their input systems allow them to make appearancereality distinctions ( for example , apparent versus real shape ) at so young an age that the possibility that they have to rely upon records of their actions to do this is just not worth considering . |
| 6 | You can see that on busy days it is just not worth fishing there . |
| 7 | It 's just not worth it to get so angry . |
| 8 | It 's just not worth the risk . |
| 9 | ‘ Treble Boost ’ are garbage ; they 're just not worth discussing . |
| 10 | Her self-esteem is visibly low — no matter how many times we tell her you 're just not worth it . |
| 11 | It 's just not worth the candle . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ What will it take before you realise he 's just not worth the anguish ? ’ |
| 13 | It 's just not worth it . |
| 14 | ‘ The real question is not the rights and wrongs of the death penalty , because that 's just not worth debating . |
| 15 | just not worth the hassle . |
| 16 | that 's why you would n't when we do things sometimes , we wo n't fiddle about er , erm with poody things its just not worth it |
| 17 | It is therefore generally not worth spending time trying to research such purchasers . |
| 18 | Batman Returns ( Warner 15 , out now ) is better but still not worth all the hoo-hah . |
| 19 | As ta ; tends to unity the types become progressively more far sighted , so to ensure that it is still not worth engaging in the permanent imitation of z = 0 the benefits from following the equilibrium strategy are increased . |
| 20 | THE Questor Selection offers readers a choice of shares suitable for inclusion in long-term portfolios , with execution — only broker services provided through our arrangements with ShareLink — although it is usually not worth dealing in sums below £1,000 . |
| 21 | The other four INI files are usually not worth playing around with , but it 's useful to at least know what the control : |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This requires a V8 110 Bell housing and first motion shaft fitting to the gearbox , a major strip down , wiring changes , new chassis mounts , hoses , exhaust , etc and so is probably not worth the effort |
| 24 | In fact , it 's probably not worth being all that scientific about it . |
| 25 | Any job that does n't need your ideas is probably not worth having . |
| 26 | Unless the system can be shown to reproduce it more efficiently than any existing system it is probably not worth considering . |
| 27 | So unless you 're very elderly , and you 're living in a very er splendid dwelling it 's probably not worth it . |
| 28 | Even so , she had no means of recognising them and to wade through three hundred-odd pages in search of some unidentified reference would be a formidable task and probably not worth the effort . |
| 29 | If these " successful " sessions are the important ones , and if users ' expectations do not increase , it is probably not worth trying to do much more in the way of improving online catalogues . |
| 30 | It is probably not worth appealing about a difference of approximately £40 . |