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 .
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