Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , repartition is not out of the question . |
| 2 | The couples frequently face each other looking into each other 's faces and appear to crouch over their feet slightly which emphasises the ‘ down to earth ’ quality as most steps appear to go down into and not out of the ground . |
| 3 | This seems to me to illustrate what I would call the ‘ Breakthrough Phenomenon ’ : the sudden discovery that something which has been assumed to be out of the question is not out of the question at all . |
| 4 | Then , after a bit , it becomes not something unacceptable , but something accepted or at least something which is demonstrated to be not out of the question . |
| 5 | Here , among ‘ Prayer wheels , worship of the dead , denial of this world , affirmation of rites with forgotten meanings ’ , some of the stuff of Eliot 's earlier poetry and his anthropological researches , there comes a visionary instant of incarnation forming a link between God and man and , in Eliot 's own poetry , between Ash-Wednesday and Four Quartets : ‘ A moment not out of time , but in time , in what we call history ; transecting , bisecting the world of time , a moment in time but not like a moment of time . ’ |
| 6 | Not out of any idea that taking drugs was morally wrong but simply because I was already enjoying myself and did n't feel the need of any chemical additions to that enjoyment . |
| 7 | He made films like Sanders of the River ( 1935 ) and The Four Feathers ( 1939 ) , featuring courageous British aristocrats going off to fight for the British empire , not out of a sentimental admiration for those times , but because the Empire provided good stories , as Hollywood also found at the time . |
| 8 | Such an agreement is not out of the question . |
| 9 | I think he got out of the flat first and not out of debt . |
| 10 | ‘ If it 's not out of your way , ’ she said , serenely , knowing that it was n't , and McLeish got to his feet , savouring self-consciously the sensation of being whole-heartedly envied by the surrounding male drinkers . |
| 11 | Then he ran off with the wire , not out of the gate , but round to the front of the house . |
| 12 | Not out of the cottage — that would have been pointless , because Doyle barred the way — but back into the kitchen . |
| 13 | The administration therefore got involved with Iran again not out of conviction , but with a strong prod from Israel , whose emissaries kept turning up in London and Washington with their slightly unnerving proposals for rapprochement . |
| 14 | You hear Zerlina singing and it sounds as though her voice is coming not out of her mouth but out of a tree on the other side of the set . |
| 15 | All the identifiable marks of our passage , like broken twigs and flattened grass , pointed forward into the wood , not out of it . |
| 16 | Not out of contempt , but because under the present circumstances , they 're a killer — people emerge exhausted ; you ca n't get artistic satisfaction . |
| 17 | Not out of obsession with the abnormal ; just for the pleasure . |
| 18 | Though relegation beckons for Nottingham , victory over Northampton is not out of the question . |
| 19 | There are plenty of books in most libraries explaining building construction and the Buildings Regulations in simple terms , but do ensure that they are not out of date . |
| 20 | ‘ My dear Kegan , you know as well as I do that you came in on my side of the fence not out of some great disinterested love of science — you do n't know what science is all about ! — but because you saw a hope of personal glory in it ! |
| 21 | But the east wing was — not out of bounds exactly — but not used . ’ |
| 22 | Her head was held high , not out of arrogance , Sandison felt , but because she was interested if not engrossed in all there was before her . |
| 23 | I found myself in pursuit , not out of choice , but because I was being chased by the mob behind . |
| 24 | The crowd parted , and they stood gazing up the canyon , not out of interest in me but to see if the bus was coming . |
| 25 | The best we can do at the moment , until the ‘ organic revolution ’ hits the high street , is to eat foods as near as possible to their natural state — not out of tins and packets . |
| 26 | Even now , however , she was not out of danger . |
| 27 | The old rebellion was squeezed out by the pressure of survival , and the ‘ young ones ’ conformed to create a new world , not out of spiritual charity , but out of silicon chips . |
| 28 | ‘ The corrosion rate is not out of line with what you would expect of a steel hull lying in quiet sea water , ’ claimed John Bernie , head of the National Physical Laboratory 's National Corrosion Service . |
| 29 | Despite the opposing headlines , this is not out of line with the evidence published in the paper in Science . |
| 30 | ‘ Not out of me , ’ Winnie said , her dander up , ‘ if that 's what yous are thinking . ’ |