Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] in [art] [adj] sense " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not answer in the unconstrained sense in which my hon. Friend asked the question , but , clearly , we are prepared to play our part — bilaterally through the provision of know-how and technical assistance in appropriate matters and , of course , through the European Community to which we are a substantial subscriber . |
| 2 | However , since Austria voluntarily adopted this status she was not neutralised in the traditional sense . |
| 3 | Cobras do not hear in the ordinary sense as they have no extended ears . |
| 4 | Thus even a standing army ( not known in the modern sense at this time ) took time off in the winter . |
| 5 | In his view , Washington reasoned that the absence of direct military alliances between Third World states and the West meant that the non-aligned status cherished by the majority of such states was not undermined in the formal sense and their participation in strategic partnerships with the United States was facilitated . |
| 6 | ‘ We are travellers , and though we are not lost in the true sense of the word , we perhaps lack direction . ’ |
| 7 | The lecturer 's task is not to act in the medieval sense and be a reader of scarce books , but to explain the difficult parts of an abstruse subject . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't mean in the ordinary sense . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't mean in the medical sense . |
| 10 | We did n't fish in the accepted sense , which I 've always thought was a ghoulish thing to do anyway . |