Example sentences of "[not/n't] out [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Find the shelves containing that class number and you will have access to all the books on that topic that are not out on loan . |
| 2 | Border , who scored 20 not out at No. 8 , declared at 367 for 6 : although India 's target was 441 , memories of Adelaide suggested an exciting final day , especially after Sidhu ( 24 ) and Srikkanth ( 26 ) knocked off 55 of those runs by stumps . |
| 3 | The initial interest of political researchers into the question of what to do with the regions came about , it must be said , not out of concern for neglected political interests in the periphery ( what Tarrow refers to as ‘ regionalism as peripheral defence ’ ) but because of a trend thought to have been observed in modern politics which seemed to go to the heart of the functioning of modern political systems . |
| 4 | Some of the audience had stopped laughing , too but not out of pity for Lucie . |
| 5 | And then he 'd be in a rare way because our employer was not out of bed . |
| 6 | That question was not out of order . |
| 7 | I hope , Madam Deputy Speaker , that my comments were not out of order or tasteless , but I shall rephrase them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The present Prime Minister says no , no , no , not out of conviction or courage . |
| 10 | Perhaps he is socialist out of convenience , but certainly not out of conviction . |
| 11 | His own car was a few yards ahead , and he could be in and started before they turned the corner — but not out of sight . |
| 12 | Then they walked down there , but not out of sight of the cars . |
| 13 | It has happened in an ad-hoc way , growing out of need and not out of legislation , or as a consequence of dictates from local or central government . |
| 14 | My sister ate , but I refused , not out of sacrifice nor because I was resisting temptation ( I firmly believed that meat would make me ill , as my mother said ) , but because I knew — though this formulation is the adult 's rather than the ten-year old 's — that the price of the meal was condemnation of my mother 's oddness , and I was n't having that . |
| 15 | In 1920s Preston , for example , electoral support for the party increased , not out of sympathy with the defeat of the general strike , but rather because , with a loosening of the hold of trade unions and mobilisation of female and neighbourhood support , the party turned to ‘ consumer-oriented statist policies ’ ( ibid. p 179 ) . |
| 16 | Boring , repetitive or even hazardous employment may still be acceptable to capitalist morality : the job is done not out of interest but as a way of earning money , not out of loyalty , but a fear of redundancy . |
| 17 | A group of so-called " ethical ministers " , led by Economy Minister Marcilio Marques Moreira and including Justice Minister Célio Borja and Bornhausen , made it known that they had only signed this " pact " in order to ensure the governability of the country , and not out of loyalty to Collor . |
| 18 | The tend to be unappreciative of the farm worker 's skills , not out of malice , but because they simply lack the detailed knowledge of agriculture on which to base a judgement . |
| 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 | The Secretary of State 's authority on this matter has been accepted , not out of docility or in the belief that the Secretary of State for Scotland is infallible in curriculum matters : it has been accepted because it is very obviously based on a clear national consensus . |
| 21 | But if we change our own scarcity belief , so that money flows more freely into our own lives , we have reduced — by one — the number of people in the world who struggle over money ; and we might choose to use some of our wealth to help others — not out of guilt , but out of love . |
| 22 | But his choice of location for his last resting place was not out of character . |
| 23 | To date , the USSR has never attacked a stronger opponent , but it is not out of character for her to steal a march on her equals when their guard is down . |
| 24 | It was the kind of illogical fear of the supernatural that in others made me sneer ; but all along I had felt that I was invited not out of hospitality , but for some other reason . |
| 25 | I 'll come and pick you up , ’ I said , not out of courtesy , but because Purvis did n't look as though he had the strength to carry even a dozen records . |
| 26 | It was an unusually quiet night , and Jack had been called in earlier and had stayed not out of necessity but because , as he said , if he went home he would only be called out again . |
| 27 | Not out of prurience , or anything Alice could dislike ; there was a total noncomprehension there . |
| 28 | This is not out of nostalgia or for a longing of times gone by — it is because it is a real top notch release ! |
| 29 | I found myself in pursuit , not out of choice , but because I was being chased by the mob behind . |
| 30 | What keeps me going is knowing that I 'm doing this for my children , not out of choice . |