Example sentences of "not [adv] in the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it is not only in the Third World that people shy away from permanent sterility . |
| 2 | To anticipate the argument a little , my view is that consumption patterns of the majority of people ( not only in the Third World ) are ill-matched to their needs because both consumption and needs are generally dictated by transnational practices . |
| 3 | The problem is that dependent development seems to be possible not only in the Third World but also in underprivileged areas within the hegemonic countries of the First World . |
| 4 | Wallerstein elaborated the concept of the semi-periphery to describe such countries , and this idea has been picked up by many scholars as a useful tool in analyzing the NICs and , increasingly , those countries that are on the fringes of the First World , but not exactly in the Third World , like Ireland , Portugal , and the Balkan states ( for example , Mouzelis , 1986 ) . |
| 5 | Golding 's Lord of the Flies ( 1954 ) is in the third person , though like Defoe 's most famous novel it is about an island marooning ; but Rites of Passage ( 1980 ) — the first of the Tarpaulin trilogy — is a memoir-novel , composed not just in the first person but in a pastiche of the English of the Napoleonic wars , especially in its sea-terms — a sort of ‘ sub-Jane Austen language ’ , as he has breezily put it . |
| 6 | And not just in the Third World . |
| 7 | The same basic principles apply everywhere , not just in the Third World . |
| 8 | There is a good deal of evidence to suggest that managerial and technical talent flows from the domestic sector to the transnational companies rather than vice versa , particularly but not exclusively in the Third World ( see Gershenberg , 1987 , on Kenya ; Okada , 1983 , on Indonesia ) . |
| 9 | Community care also highlights one of the fundamental flaws of charters — there is little point being able to complain about a service if it simply is not there in the first place . |
| 10 | There 's memorable dialogue in this film , not least in the last scene , which turns Jane Darwell , as Ma Joad , into a spokeswoman for all the oppressed of the Earth and ends the picture on a defiant , upbeat note that rightly won her an Oscar . |