Example sentences of "not [adj] in [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though mischief or simply tomfoolery played a large part in his life , he was certainly not track-mischievous in the way Niki Lauda was . |
| 2 | It seemed a dark mysterious sort of profession , perhaps in a way not quite manly , or not manly in the way she was used to . |
| 3 | I am not interested in the way my sister spends her afternoons . |
| 4 | Imamu and Boo are not similar in the way that they are both the same age or the same colour , but what makes them similar and comparable is that they are both outsiders in society . |
| 5 | Corporate crime is not visible in the way that ‘ conventional ’ crime is , due to the complex nature of such crime and the ineffective laws and minimal punishments associated with it . |
| 6 | The movie is ambitious in its mix of fantasy and realism , and there 's a sustained central performance from Iain Glen , but the big problem is that the subject himself is not fascinating in the way the Krays were . |
| 7 | While not affectionate in the way other dogs are , when Sadie comes and gently pushes her nose against my leg , I know we have achieved something . |
| 8 | The subconscious mind is not haphazard in the way it works to protect you . |
| 9 | God is not present in the way that we are present , in bodily form . |
| 10 | I was not alone in the way I identified with the saga of the March family , nor was I alone in identifying with Jo ( and presumably all readers do ) in her hurts and disappointments , her longings for femininity that clashed with her dreams of independence and achievement ; and in wishing for the ultimate fairness of all things as they were shaped by those nineteenth century moral certainties . |
| 11 | Evidence about it comes from a range of sources and that evidence is not uniform in the way in which it is presented . |
| 12 | French architectural styles at home , the desirability of French education for Scots abroad , military and economic ties , all combined to produce the feeling that even if a French upbringing for their monarch was only to be countenanced because of the extreme dangers created by the Rough Wooing , it was not unnatural in the way that an English upbringing would have been . |
| 13 | Men tend to put greater store by their work once there are children ( perhaps because of the burden of being the sole earner , and perhaps because their place at work is not unchallenged in the way it may be at home ) and housework , which before may have been shared equally , often now falls to the woman . |
| 14 | He is not wild in the way the Duke of Windsor was wild , nor headstrong like Princess Margaret . |
| 15 | The Act takes pains to refer to them as ‘ examinations ’ and they are not mandatory in the way that the certification of the appropriation accounts is . |
| 16 | Faith , who helps run the local mother-and-toddler group , is n't alone in the way she feels . |
| 17 | Schrader 's film — darkly humorous , intensely claustrophobic — is n't anti-woman in the way On The Waterfront was , but it is a pessimistic and probably prophetic parable about men destined to remain cogs in a remorseless , unfeeling machine . |