Example sentences of "not [prep] a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , and it was a very big ‘ if ’ , Riddle 's body had been substituted for the Scapegoat he felt sure that it was not as a convenient way of disposing of the body but to give more effective expression to the hatred which had inspired his killing . |
| 2 | But not in a tired way . |
| 3 | So that that Association can actually employ erm the Yorkshire and Humberside area in an intelligent way and not in a divided way . |
| 4 | But whatever it was , he did it at a ) each step along life 's highway and b ) not in a shy way … ’ |
| 5 | We have some people on training courses who could tell that they 're quite theorists cos question of challenge if you actually put forward some ideas they 'll , they 'll question them , not in a negative way , but they just want to know well where have these come from and why and why is this and on your training courses what theorists will do is if you 're actually putting together forward and processing procedures that C U follow , they 'll question why they wo n't just accept it , they 'll actually question it , not in the negative way but they 'll want to understand it . |
| 6 | ‘ She was outspoken in the sense that she did n't lack confidence , but not in a pushy way , ’ he says . |
| 7 | Stanley has sex with her not in a loving way but in a hurtful and spiteful one . |
| 8 | Finally , the use of machine-readable information in the traditional subject-specific theme course needs to be considered but once again , in a general , not in a subject-specific way . |
| 9 | By then the product will have reverted to being a reasonable business again — but not in a glamorous way as in the first phase . |
| 10 | Very bubbly and giggly but not in a vacuous way . ’ |
| 11 | I 'd want to see you often , but not in a special way . |
| 12 | The improvements have come not in a dramatic way but week by week over a number of months . |
| 13 | We were intimate with each other — not in a romantic way but in terms of our working relationship . |
| 14 | Now nice abbreviation for thought patterns is thop T H O P when we talk about thought patterns or thops a method of gathering ideas a meth a method of getting things down on paper so we do n't lose them but not in a linear way in a spatial way a right brain activity . |
| 15 | The image of Neil Young as the wayward eccentric does n't tell the whole story , not by a long way . |
| 16 | Not through choice , not by a long way , but it was where I 'd made my destiny , even if as an alien . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've not finished with you yet — not by a long way ! ’ |