Example sentences of "[adv] not on " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are furthermore not on the ends of words but in the middle : ‘ mariner/tarried in ’ , ‘ timber felled/Nimbrethil ’ , ‘ silver fair/silver were ’ , ‘ like a swan/light upon ’ . |
| 2 | You do n't want to antagonize rich and powerful Emissaries , especially not on their own ship in deep space . |
| 3 | Especially not on an empty stomach . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps not last Sunday , and perhaps not on the way to Liam Shakespeare 's front door , but it had happened . |
| 5 | As Federation secretary she was much involved in arranging Saturday lectures , concerts , jumble sales , theatre visits and suchlike for the branches : ‘ these would probably be arranged by the Federation officials without me , but perhaps not on so large a scale ’ . |
| 6 | The feeling swept over me that I had truly left Darlington Hall behind , and I must confess I did feel a slight sense of alarm — a sense aggravated by the feeling that I was perhaps not on the correct road at all , but speeding off in totally the wrong direction into a wilderness . |
| 7 | One may well object to this , but perhaps not on grounds which can be called Benthamite . |
| 8 | Oh that 's perhaps not on there anyway . |
| 9 | Their minds were obviously not on meteorological work , and as the squadron gradually decreased in numbers with each little batch that left for home , farewell parties were a regular occurrence in the office and I began to think that perhaps Binbrook was not such a bad place after all . |
| 10 | He 's still my coach now , obviously not on a full time basis because my home 's in Michigan . ’ |
| 11 | As was said earlier , since the Piper Alpha incident there has been a succession of serious incidents in the North sea , although obviously not on the same scale as Piper Alpha . |
| 12 | This may be so , but the Cats Protection League was obviously not on the list . |
| 13 | He says the basic idea is if you understand what 's going wrong then you can design any therapy sensibly not on the hit and miss basis it 's been done in the past . |
| 14 | Ignoring the fact that it does n't seem to have much harm to British Telecommunications Plc or to the UK , France 's Minister for Posts & Telecommunications , Emile Zuccarelli , says that privatising France Telecom would hurt the company , its users and the entire nation : he particularly worries about service in sparsely-populated areas , a problem that appears to have been satisfactorily solved by regulation in the UK market ; privatisation of France Telecom is anyway not on the agenda of Valery Giscard d'Estaing . |
| 15 | Well … well … its just blummin not on … it might force hamsters to be renamed amongst other serious repurcussions . |
| 16 | Councillor Brian Dixon fumed : ‘ Paying all this money is just not on when we face spending cuts in our budget and have 270 homeless people . |
| 17 | that is just not on |
| 18 | write to him as well disgusting , as if you do n't , you do n't need that sort of aggravation from a teacher stirring up trouble like that making the kids making him a laughing stock , he does not need that , its just not on is it ? , and as he says I 'm sure she does it on purpose . |
| 19 | Hello I think he 's gone and I assume we 're still not on the air . |
| 20 | I can see that this one 's still not on his feet you obviously noticed , he 'll walk about when you hold his hands |
| 21 | He had wanted a stable balance in politics , with a large , moderate and ‘ responsible ’ Labour Party sharing power , although preferably not on an equal basis , with his own form of Conservatism . |
| 22 | Preferably not on top of me ! |
| 23 | Yes , in Vienna , a lady , I will not say her name but assure you that any conversation I had with poor little Mrs Crump was most decidedly not on this subject and not about this lady — she has clearly clutched at a reference and taken it for a confidence — in Vienna , this lady of , I may admit it , royal connection , formed an attachment for me which was not reciprocated but proved most difficult to disengage . |
| 24 | Charity opened her mouth to say that a Mercedes was really not on her list of aspirations , but at that moment they approached a sharp twist in the path and were almost knocked over by an electric golf cart careening around it . |
| 25 | Victorian science , perhaps Victorian intellectual life , had a certain robustness which could easily degenerate into quarrels , and it is a feature of the time that leading workers in the same field were often not on speaking terms : but at least in the BAAS good-tempered discussion was possible . |
| 26 | The NGC spokesman said the council 's decision meant the public inquiry would consider the siting of the substation , a matter originally not on the agenda . |
| 27 | The item is simply not on Neil Kinnock 's agenda . |
| 28 | One was simply not on friendly terms with people like gardeners and their offspring . |
| 29 | For this reason self-governing status was simply not on the agenda for any of its hospitals . |
| 30 | A smaller SA system is available for people with smaller backs , but unfortunately not on the Condor . |