Example sentences of "[not/n't] in the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Navigation Acts were not in the first instance devised to make up for the fact that some English revenue was devoted to colonial defence , but defending the colonies came to be seen as an integral part of the Old Colonial System . |
| 2 | Foundationalism , viewed quite generally ( though here we must exclude Wittgenstein ) , can be seen as the expression of the empiricist thought that verification and justification , telling whether something is true and backing up one 's claims about what is true , must rely eventually upon the evidence of one 's senses ; not in the first instance , maybe , but at the end of the day . |
| 3 | It is not , at least not in the first instance , the formulation of clear , precise , and coherently related propositions backed up by sufficient evidence and argument . |
| 4 | A wide circulation or advertising the sale does not seem appropriate — at least not in the first instance . |
| 5 | Note that we are not here trying to derive models for designing — or at least not in the first instance . |
| 6 | We went in and we paid seven pounds for me and my mum to get in , we did n't pay for the kids cos if they know they 're gon na sit on your lap , they get in there for nothing , but once we get in there we give them their own chair anyway , providing you go in like it 's not in the first week , the following week when the show is quieter and not so many people going |
| 7 | Britain is not in the first rank of energy-efficient nations , but , taking 1975 as 100 , the energy requirements backing each unit of GDP fell from 115 in 1970 to 81 in 1987 . |
| 8 | Whites price was obviously done whilst NOT in the first team . |
| 9 | ‘ It is also desirable that members of our senior squad not in the first team are able to continue playing at a reasonable level , and they have not been able to do this in the past . ’ |
| 10 | Keegan said : ‘ I 've told players that if they are not in the first team here they can always impress somebody else . ’ |
| 11 | His Majesties Printers , at or about this time , had committed a scandalous mistake in our English Bibles by leaving out the word NOT in the Seventh Commandment . |
| 12 | The UK evidence ( Labour Research Department , 1987 ) confirms the view that outward investment by home-based manufacturing concerns has concentrated not in the Third World but in North America and western Europe ( rather than the Commonwealth ) ; it is the wish to have a stake in economies that are growing more rapidly than the UK which is the key factor in company decision-making . |
| 13 | 6.2 Why in Britain , not in the Third World ? |
| 14 | Not in the twenty-fifth century . |
| 15 | Any organic material must inevitably reflect its origin , and can not contain what it was n't in the first place . |
| 16 | No I have n't in the last couple of days , she was around |
| 17 | Marion ? and I was n't in the last week so I doubt whether |