Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it [be] not worth " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should remember that it was ill the employers " interests to claim that it was not worth providing women with a long training because they would waste it by leaving early ; while it was in the trade union 's interest to claim that women were incompetent because they had only received a short training . |
| 2 | The Church argued that it was not worth spending such high sums on the building 's repair . |
| 3 | He says that it 's not worth staying on if the place is going to be wrecked . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Sitting on the train she had suddenly thought that it was not worth it . |
| 6 | This is such hard work that you may decide that it is n't worth the effort and abandon your attempt to acquire the skills in question . |
| 7 | This would n't always be the case — the pigeon might be able to take cover and elude the peregrine , but the peregrine might equally decide that it was n't worth the chase . |
| 8 | It had not taken long for her to realise that it was not worth the risk of her position and Stephen 's love . |
| 9 | I say encourage because three out of four dissatisfied customers simply go away disgruntled — having concluded that it is not worth complaining . |
| 10 | See I sometimes wonder whether it 's not worth giving them some kind of er a proper test . |
| 11 | That 's not to say that it 's not worth listening to : it clearly is , and it grows larger the more you hear it . |
| 12 | It had only been her bank book , and Edward had been quite right to say that it was not worth reading . |
| 13 | When others urge caution for electoral reasons , he argues that it 's not worth being in government if you ca n't do the things you believe in . |
| 14 | You sometimes hear people say that it is not worth eating differently , or getting to the right weight ; they say they prefer a short and happy life to a long and miserable one . |
| 15 | Help them to stick up for themselves and see that it is not worth being treated badly just in order to have a best friend . |