Example sentences of "[not/n't] in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , provided as a question of fact the payment is made for unfair dismissal and not in circumstances where unfair dismissal is contrived , the Revenue confirms that the ‘ golden hand-shake ’ provisions will apply ( see the Law Society Gazette , 36 , p 42 ) . |
| 2 | She was aware that this process exposed first her buttocks and then her breasts , fleetingly , to Crowe , who had seen them and more than seen them , already , but not in circumstances either of them , she took it , cared to remember . |
| 3 | For instrumentalists this is what Marx meant by his classic statement about men making history but not in circumstances of their own choosing . |
| 4 | By this rule a solicitor may not share or agree to share his fees with any person except : ( 1 ) another solicitor ; ( 2 ) a lawyer qualified in some foreign jurisdiction who has his principal office in that jurisdiction ; ( 3 ) the solicitor 's bona fide employee , but not in circumstances which would create a partnership with a non-solicitor ; ( 4 ) a retired partner or the dependants of a retired or deceased partner . |
| 5 | It can be argued , to the contrary , that the more the courts are opened up to arguments based about the interests of the public or of significant sections of it rather than of particular individuals , the more likely are the judges to be drawn into political battles which ought to be resolved in the political arena and not in courts . |
| 6 | The error of so many critics and scholars is to write as if the paraphrasable elements in literature constituted its substance , whereas the value of literature is to be found not in propositions , but in relationships , and these relationships are not logical , but imaginative . |
| 7 | Not in pounds sterling anyway . |
| 8 | The frame of reference for all this ferment in the official mind remained the idea of the Commonwealth , which during the war received an impetus from the need to show the Americans , in words if not in deeds , that there would be room for a British empire in the brave new post-war world , and also from the genuine idealism stimulated in some British imperialists — as it had been stimulated in the previous war — by a desire to distinguish themselves from the Germans and their imperial ambitions . |
| 9 | Bolinger ( 1974 : 86-7 ) seems to side with Palmer and Higgenbotham , for he maintains that the to infinitive evokes not a perception but rather a fact : The passive tends to be used in situations where the interest is not in perceptions but in impersonal facts — for example , in the testimony of a witness who says He was seen to stoop over and pick up some object , and then stuff it in his pocket . |
| 10 | One way of avoiding this is to plant them , not in spaces towards the front of borders , but around the stems of trees and shrubs . |
| 11 | But the size of the local fox population is governed by the amount of food available , not in times of plenty such as this , but in times of scarcity when the nesting gulls have gone . |
| 12 | And I 'm sure it 's because they live in the Jungle not in cities . |
| 13 | The man with the phone was not in carpets ; he was in aircraft parts or something similar . |
| 14 | Almost 90 per cent who were in schemes , and two-thirds of those not in schemes , said it was important or ‘ very important ’ . |
| 15 | With regard to HDL subfractions in insulin-dependent diabetics , data are conflicting but some studies have demonstrated a significant increase in HDL3 in males but not in females ( Mattock et al , 1980 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's not in ruins , ’ said Adam , looking him in the eye . |
| 17 | Whatever comments were made in the heat of the negotiations at Maastricht , there can be no doubt that those who wish to invest in Europe will want to invest in countries that will be part of the economic and monetary union and not in countries outside it . |
| 18 | Throw in the joker of addictions which come not in syringes or cigarettes , but in casinos and computer cartridges , and you have a fine arena for combat between libertarians and puritans . |
| 19 | The power of the passage lies not in mots justes but in the evocation of ideas at once old and new , familiar in outline but strongly redefined in context : like ‘ stocks and stones ’ . |
| 20 | The Royal Commission on Capital Punishment which reported in 1953 ( Cmnd. 5932 ) examined the experience of countries throughout the world where the death penalty has been abolished , restored , abolished again or where it existed in some parts and not in others . |
| 21 | The clock has moving hands and figures ; gold is yellow , malleable , soluble in some acids , and not in others . |
| 22 | One of the most recent , from Sweden , revealed that statistically , pups born in the winter in that country are more likely to develop hip dysplasia than pups born in the summer … but only in some breeds , not in others . |
| 23 | The sociological problems of involving wives in training were notable in some areas but not in others . |
| 24 | Of course sometimes I do have additional information showing that the authority is better than me in some areas and not in others . |
| 25 | It now becomes necessary to determine why such a form of conditional learning should be evident in this procedure and not in others . |
| 26 | A product may well have a different shelf life in different markets ; alternatively , a product may be released for marketing in certain markets but not in others . |
| 27 | For a variety of historical reasons , initial development occurs in some places and not in others . |
| 28 | He , however , did find that some potentized remedies showed effects on the macrophages ( white cells ) of some batches of guinea-pigs but not in others , and in the macrophages of one human subject but not in others . |
| 29 | He , however , did find that some potentized remedies showed effects on the macrophages ( white cells ) of some batches of guinea-pigs but not in others , and in the macrophages of one human subject but not in others . |
| 30 | They will see in some situations and not in others . |