Example sentences of "not [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He feels that the choice is really between hi sā and ahi sā , and not between doing one 's duty or not doing one 's duty . |
| 2 | It will achieve this not through seeing itself as a piece of concrete , proprietary estate , as an end in itself ; rather it is a moving organisation for progress , existing for its future not its present , and achieving its future , and so fulfilling its raison d'etre , in aspiration for , and achievement of , improvement . |
| 3 | And this we come at not through consulting Joyce 's biography , but through attending to the forces at work in his writing . |
| 4 | Of special interest was the Radcliffe Committee 's view that control of the banking system was exercisable via the liquidity ratio and the supply of Treasury bills , and not through regulating the supply of cash ( see Section 5.6 ) . |
| 5 | Instead one would work to the lowest common skill denominator — the basis of modernist organization — and minimize the costs of labour turnover not through minimizing the labour transfers but through minimizing training costs and skills . |
| 6 | ‘ There are some patterns that are not worth looking at , miss . |
| 7 | ‘ Not worth looking at , ’ Selkirk replied . |
| 8 | It 's not worth looking on the box for the news because it 's , they 'll be nothing new . |
| 9 | No a bit of a bit of not worth mentioning ! |
| 10 | Had I been in a vehicle I could have gone back , but on foot it was not worth risking the wasted energy . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's not worth risking . |
| 12 | Hard on the heels of the shock defeat of odds-on favourite Sybillin in the Arkle Chase on Tuesday , FitzGerald decided it was not worth risking the outsider in the Gold Cup . |
| 13 | Reeve repeatedly played a shot that began as a hook but became a tennis lob when he refrained from bending a the elbow : unique , but not worth patenting . |
| 14 | — I would know then , once back in those days before everything changed , that my power is of little weight and not worth using . |
| 15 | In the Fifties the things you bought to throw away ranged from Kleenex to baking tins , from razors with only one blade ( supplied by vending machine ) to watches not worth repairing . |
| 16 | It 's not worth cooking for one . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | — Anyway , he 's not worth getting so worked-up over . |
| 19 | So it 's not worth getting a job because we wo n't be as well off . |
| 20 | A BT spokesman said : ‘ It 's not worth getting your woggles in a twist over . ’ |
| 21 | He said bracingly , ’ 'Darling , it 's not worth getting upset . |
| 22 | Not worth getting out of bed ! |
| 23 | It 's not worth getting that out is it ? |
| 24 | so it 's really not worth getting qualifications on reflection so I want to do a bit of work you see , build myself a reputation that sort of thing |
| 25 | Yeah , it 's not worth getting some , no send them through , 'jama 's |
| 26 | I ca n't I ca n't really , I du n no it 's It 's not worth getting in trouble cos if this gets put on report |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | One hang-up for the profit-motivated British garage is that they feel it is not worth taking on work for less than a tenner . |
| 29 | He was probably thinking that in these times it was not worth taking the risk of offending anyone , just in case they were agents of Horemheb and you ended up in an emerald mine on the Eastern Coast . |
| 30 | You do n't know , but it 's not worth taking the risk of , you know , being wrong . |