Example sentences of "[not/n't] [prep] the [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's certainly not for the prissy of nature but then the original novel was also considered at the time rather racy . |
| 2 | so I tap on the window , had just gone past and I was just about to go in his room , you know , cos he 's standing there and I just tapped on the window come outside Nick had just walked by and Rick and were talking you know it 's not like the dead of night and everything 's quiet |
| 3 | Spencer propounded the law of equal freedom which was not unlike the first of Rawls 's principles of justice : ‘ Every man is free to do that which he wills provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man . ’ |
| 4 | Their homes are often sumptuously hung , not with the finest of eurocentric defined Fine Art , or even the craftiest of Crafts Council defined craft , but with Javanese batik , Indian embroideries , West African Adire , and selected ex-colonial produce . |
| 5 | And with the millions of insects buzzing , crawling , flying and swimming about , all needing to communicate with their own kind and with other associated species , but not with the millions of other creatures , this would seem to be essential to avoid confusion . |
| 6 | Despite the well-founded fear of the Securitate , for most of the period of Communist rule in Romania , the secret police was not in the front-line of control over the population . |
| 7 | Rodney was not in the best of tempers because ( he kept saying ) he could n't see out of the rear window with that damned bicycle in the way . |
| 8 | Sara was not in the best of tempers because ( she kept saying ) she had nowhere to put her feet between the aubergines and the case of wine on the floor . |
| 9 | The CO was not in the best of tempers . |
| 10 | The buildings were not in the best of condition . |
| 11 | Both house and mill were recently offered for sale and , although not in the best of condition , their potential was obvious . |
| 12 | The frills and lace are Perhaps not in the best of taste , but fashionable nevertheless . |
| 13 | Burke was not in the best of condition and had lost his fighting spirit because of his troubles with Byrne and O'Rourke . |
| 14 | She had seen the film , too , and I received a letter some time later from her husband , Mr Hallows , telling me that Odette was not in the best of health and they were moving house . |
| 15 | Though not in the best of health , Marian was determined to make her own way , accepting little else from Bloomsbury House except tickets for the occasional outing to the Wigmore Hall . |
| 16 | I set off back to the hospital — not in the best of tempers after a foul drive in filthy weather — and it was on the way home , as the wet lamps marched towards me , that it happened . |
| 17 | The Doctor could see she was not in the best of moods . |
| 18 | In September 1770 John Sadler retired , possibly because he was not in the best of health . |
| 19 | One reason for this was , of course , that since he had been dead for three months his eyes were in any case not in the best of condition . |
| 20 | ‘ He is not in the best of moods this morning , ’ Marguerite continued . |
| 21 | Try not to draw attention to yourself today — you are not in the best of moods and arguments could ensue . |
| 22 | Try not to draw attention to yourself today — you are not in the best of moods and arguments could ensue . |
| 23 | Try not to draw attention to yourself — you are not in the best of moods and arguments could ensue . |
| 24 | Having seen him safely in hospital , though not in the best of health myself , I called at the poll tax office and waited one and a half hours in a very smoky atmosphere to have the summons withdrawn . |
| 25 | Well not in the thirties of course but after the War there was one because I er , ah well this , no , this was much later , much much much , because I married my second husband and erm I had two children fairly quick . |
| 26 | Although not in the thick of it , she suffered some damage and lost seven killed and twenty-one wounded . |
| 27 | THERE have been three other potential points of the year when much has been primed to change — not in the easiest of ways , nor in the most predictable of fashions — and this is another one . |
| 28 | Fire-drill was followed immediately by breakfast in the dining-hall and everyone was surprised to see Ethel deliberately sitting down next to Mildred , for it was common knowledge that the two were not on the best of terms . |
| 29 | He would thus have been guilty of perjury if he had submitted them when they were not to the best of his knowledge correct and complete . |
| 30 | Although the Apache is remarkably docile its accident record in the USA is not among the best of the light twins , possibly because the type is so often employed in the training role . |