Example sentences of "n't [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | An Alliance Party worker said : ‘ The election in Northern Ireland is n't about a penny off income tax or hospital beds . |
2 | It is n't about the dead hand of the past , the unsettled guilt-edged accounts of history returning to haunt the present . |
3 | It is n't about the dress at all — it 's a personal matter . ’ |
4 | But most of his lessons , to my surprise , are n't about the human body being a machine : they are about hospital administration . |
5 | And the the charge the pence in the pound , and I do n't about the forget the rateable value . |
6 | Entire and accessible to the front of his mind was what he had been trying to recall his wife had said about the picture , but it was n't about the picture . |
7 | But Lerner 's paper is n't about the obsessive types . |
8 | Now , you wo n't about the Wrexham . |
9 | Er the er the insides have got to be kept clean it does n't about the surroundings are dirty so you know , it 's quite okay to you know , throw your half-eaten bread out ! |
10 | It was n't worth a sending-off ’ — NEIL FRANCIS ( Ireland lock ) on the punch he received from Wales lock and debutant Tony Copsey . |
11 | After a clash with ITV interviewer Gary Newbon , Benn rounded on the ‘ armchair critics who said I 'm washed up ’ and blasted : ‘ They are n't worth a hand job . ’ |
12 | The cults in this country are n't worth a damn , we all know that . |
13 | if had said Oh this is n't worth a damn , take this , he would have taken it and been happy . |
14 | ‘ Then our lives are n't worth a beggar 's shit . ’ |
15 | and that 's what it is gon na be motivated , but at the end of the day there , the , the people that you work with they ai n't worth a |
16 | My attitude is that if a band manages to release a second album of poor songs four months after their first album left number one in the charts , it is n't worth the rush . |
17 | They hope it will prove so complex and costly to implement that the company may finally decide that mining in Mayo simply is n't worth the trouble . |
18 | She was glad she had not got one ; it was n't worth the trauma . |
19 | She was n't worth the effort , he decided . |
20 | I heard her say I ai n't worth the air I breathe . ’ |
21 | It was n't worth the fine , so I retreated to climb every escalator , dream the impossible dream of a store in which silent night meant peace to shop , and not another glutinous accompaniment to wassailing wallets . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | So far as I am concerned , wet-weather ferreting is n't worth the effort . |
24 | You 'll get nothing out of him , the man 's practically penniless , and he is n't worth the trouble . ’ |
25 | If the rating is not marked on the switch or volume control it is n't worth the risk . |
26 | ‘ The place is n't worth the £800 , let alone £320,000 , ’ said Mary , who lives there with her 10-year-old son . |
27 | With his visibility problems aggravated by the scar tissue around his eyes , he could n't see ; he thought it was just stupid to race under these conditions ; the world championship was n't worth the risk involved . |
28 | At some point during all this nonsense Meehan stormed out of the court , shouting that his free pardon was n't worth the paper it was printed on . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | they 're a band you love to hate , far more than the Manic Street Preachers , who crave to be loathed but simply are n't worth the effort . |