Example sentences of "not in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Even if not in the biblical sense , ’ I agreed . |
| 2 | Not in the biblical sense but you know what I mean |
| 3 | It seems reasonable to say that without Law there would have been no NFCC , at least not in the powerful form it reached in the early years of the twentieth century . |
| 4 | On Nov. 18 Koffigoh justified the " legal punitive measures " taken against the ministers , saying that they had acted " not in the supreme interest of the nation , but with … partisan considerations " . |
| 5 | Democratic theory as an ideal construct may recognise the existence of elites in real polities which are to be explained ; a democratic theory which accepts the existence of elites , describes democracy as a set of institutions and builds them into its descriptions as a central restraining factor , is arguably not in the democratic school and might not even be properly called theory . |
| 6 | The structural problem lies not in the overall placing , which is finely judged , but in an occasional lapse into spasmodic ( Latin American ? ) rubato . |
| 7 | In scale ( if not in the overall quality of the collection ) , it can only be compared with John Pope-Hennessy 's great Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum of 1964 . |
| 8 | Two methods tend to be used in this type of kidnapping : the woman may impersonate a nurse , giving the mother a bogus reason for taking her baby out of the room , or she may take the neonate from the nursery when nursing staff are not in the immediate area . |
| 9 | This does not sound like a very practical proposition , at least not in the immediate future . |
| 10 | Ms Bridges added : ‘ We have proved 100 per cent to our satisfaction that Norman Lamont was not in the Praed Street shop and there is no benefit for us to lie about it . |
| 11 | The roots of this belong not in the New Testament but in Latin legalism . |
| 12 | His own queen , whom Surere had revered so deeply , when she requested that she be buried not in the new City of the Horizon , but near her old home , in the Valley of the Dead across the river from the Southern Capital , had been granted her wish , though it had hurt Akhenaten deeply . |
| 13 | If a LIFESPAN header can not be found or if it is not in the correct format then a ‘ scan error ’ results . |
| 14 | Futre had been substituted in a warm-up match prior to departure for Valetta and had subsequently fallen out with Quieroz and was left at home for being ‘ not in the correct frame of mind ’ to play a World Cup tie . |
| 15 | Where government introduces measures that exclude people from resources long since used by them , the people come to view the project as a zero-sum game ( Thomson in Glantz , ed. 1977 ) , where their loss is exactly others ' gain , and conservation will not in the long run lead to an increase in their incomes . |
| 16 | Not in the long run . |
| 17 | He will not in the long run profit from arrangements that turn the surviving research institutes into training grounds for emigrant specialists . |
| 18 | It 's not in the long book . |
| 19 | That 's one corporate plan that ca n't win , not in the long term . |
| 20 | One does not get a sense of a strong need for support from parents to children to be reciprocated — certainly not in the short term , and possibly not in the long term either . |
| 21 | This is not in the long term interests of global capitalism , and TNCs through their governments have been known to put pressure on dictators for the purpose of creating or restoring pluralist political systems . |
| 22 | Erm any strategy for taking jobs away from other parts of the country towards Harrogate will not solve the nation 's problems and it will not in the long term solve North Yorkshire 's problems . |
| 23 | If these are not in the right position for your track , you can make fixings with special plasterboard plugs , but you should then avoid hanging heavy curtains . |
| 24 | ‘ Because I 'm not in the right mood for studying . |
| 25 | ‘ If I 'm not in the right mood I get very guarded and do n't want to talk to people . |
| 26 | They are not in the right order . |
| 27 | I know they 're numbered but they 're not in the right order . |
| 28 | ‘ By his own admission , Gordon was not in the right frame of mind to play at Norwich . |
| 29 | The Scottish international has been dropped because he 's not in the right frame of mind . |
| 30 | It is sour grapes , they say , because the candidates no doubt sent in many copies of their CV without response ; fell by the wayside in competition with better candidates ; failed to convince the would-be employer that they were right for the job ; or were just plain unlucky and not in the right place at the right time . |