Example sentences of "[to-vb] that it was not [prep] " 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 | It had not taken long for her to realise that it was not worth the risk of her position and Stephen 's love . |
| 3 | It had only been her bank book , and Edward had been quite right to say that it was not worth reading . |
| 4 | Hume was to say that it was not against reason to prefer the destruction of the world to the least uneasiness in one 's little finger ; it would simply be rather bizarre and repellent to normal feeling . |
| 5 | Nenna wished to reply that it was not for the expected reasons — not pride , not resentment , not even the curious acquired characteristics of the river dwellers , which made them scarcely at home in London 's streets . |