Example sentences of "[am/are] not worth " in BNC.
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| 1 | My dear , my thoughts are not worth sharing just now . |
| 2 | The means of escaping poverty are not worth pursuing by a woman who genuinely wishes to be happy . |
| 3 | ‘ There are some patterns that are not worth looking at , miss . |
| 4 | Those who do not pass or who are not worth bothering about in terms of academic success get very little reward out of the school system . |
| 5 | They certainly will not go out of their way to be critical — and if they do they are not worth knowing in the first place ! |
| 6 | In one sense , we are not worth it . |
| 7 | Cheap reels are not worth a second thought . |
| 8 | One reason for this resistance might be the common idea that language is ‘ trivial ’ , so linguistic reforms are not worth the trouble they cause . |
| 9 | Many waste-management policies impose economic costs that are not worth it , writes Frances Cairncross , our environment editor |
| 10 | ‘ Many things — like appearance — are not worth worrying about . |
| 11 | The hairy ones are mustachioed and bewhiskered in the most flamboyant way , the unpleasant-tasting ones have skins brilliantly coloured in reds , yellows , blacks and purples — all warnings to potential hunters that these morsels , for one reason or another , are not worth eating . |
| 12 | Since women are not worth the booze you buy them |
| 13 | You are not worth it . |
| 14 | It appears that unless people go to work in some landscape recognisable to L. S. Lowry , their jobs , conditions and efforts are not worth talking about . |
| 15 | With regard to the rest of the local ornithology around Yarrundi he was more confident , and in his instructions to Gilbert written on 20 January 1842 , he stipulated , ‘ The Brushes are not worth hunting for the birds . ’ |
| 16 | In South America , the mahoganies , Swietenia spp. , were much sought after , so that today , they have suffered through genetic erosion to such an extent that often they are not worth exploiting , only those of poor form having been left in the forests to set seed . |
| 17 | However , the broker/dealer may well complain that this rule will allow the floor to take good trades off him , leaving him with the trades that are not worth having . |
| 18 | Erm , perhaps it will be Mr 's policy to impune all district auditors that their findings are not worth erm , troubling with . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | across the board trouble is when you get these differential spend all the interpretation on them , not that you 're rewarding the good teachers but that some teachers are not worth rewarding . |
| 21 | The summons he receives from a free-floating blonde — ‘ Leave ‘ em , Billy , they 're not worth it . |
| 22 | So before you decide that you 're not worth a hundred and fifty thousand pound do actually sit down and work it out . |
| 23 | You 're not worth bothering about . ’ |
| 24 | Has he decided you 're not worth it ’ . |
| 25 | " They 're not worth talking about anyway . |
| 26 | ‘ I should slap you for that remark but you 're not worth soiling my hands with . |
| 27 | Annie thinks that you 're not worth worrying about . |
| 28 | ‘ They 're not worth half-crown , ’ Dickinson grunted . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm not going to fight you — you 're not worth it . |
| 30 | yeah , they 're not worth buying second hand I do n't think now because there 's so much wear on them is n't there ? |