Example sentences of "not in the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repression would be looking at the cream cake and saying , I 'm not in the least bit interested , how revolting , disgusting , even though you actually unconsciously want it very much . |
| 2 | But nonetheless , I think we as county councillors can be proud of the fact that we have set a spending target for committees , we are prepared to allow the officers to manage their departments inside the targets that have been set , and that does mean that they have to look at er , what they 're spending and create priorities , and and I as a councillor am not in the least bit impressed by arguments that paper clips have increased by five and a half percent this year , and that felt l er pe felt line erm , pens have gone up by seventeen and a half percent , I think that 's largely irrelevant consideration , we 're not in the business of projecting budget , we 're in the business of providing money to deliver high quality services to the people of Wiltshire . |
| 3 | On a fast , gusty launch a wooden glider will treat you to a series of creaks and groans , and occasionally bangs , which are alarming until you realize that it is all pretence and that the structure is not in the least danger of breaking up . |
| 4 | ( Both pronunciations are found , though typically not in the same speaker . ) |
| 5 | Masha Cohen also knew of such things , not in the same way , but from her own very different experiences as a young girl whose family had been harassed and hounded in the anti-semitic agitations that rent Poland . |
| 6 | If Dana left me , I knew I would never love anyone again — or at least , not in the same way , with the same intensity . |
| 7 | Not in the same way . |
| 8 | The producer should know the score , not in the same way as a conductor , but perhaps in the manner of a good driver who does not know what goes on underneath the bonnet but who can handle a car very well and one who knows exactly what to do if the car breaks down . |
| 9 | He does what he has to do in situations of moral dilemma , though he knows it to be wrong , because to act differently would have been wrong also though not in the same way . |
| 10 | This may indicate that the brooches were consistently worn in a particular position , but not in the same way . |
| 11 | The fellows never seemed to rib the other NAAFI girls very much : they joked with them , but not in the same way as they did with Lemon . |
| 12 | Extraordinary as it may seem , it nevertheless is a fact that plants breathe through their roots , not in the same way as you and I with lungs , but the same chemical process of respiration goes on and , unless like seaweed and water lilies they are adapted to do so , plants can no more live in an airless waterlogged soil than you can live with your head under water . |
| 13 | The conservative position , in which God has created a fixed place for woman in an ordered universe , is actually not in the same way morally objectionable and is much more coherent . |
| 14 | Today men are not in the same way held to represent women : there are two sexes and women represent themselves . |
| 15 | But not in the same way . ’ |
| 16 | For Betty , pupil autonomy is also an issue , though not in the same way as it is for Rick . |
| 17 | Not in the same way that I knew of his brother , who made money in biscuits and owned a gleaming Daimler car which he drove very cautiously over the potholes in the road outside our house . |
| 18 | I meant not in the same way . |
| 19 | Well , not in the same way Joan is . |
| 20 | It 's not in the same tradition as , as , as the ego . |
| 21 | Root Package Password If the above root package is password protected from the specified user , then a password may need to be specified for the LIFESPAN modules to be accessed , if the specified user is not in the same user branch as the module manager or a special link does NOT exist between the two . |
| 22 | Physics is physics , is n't it , you ca n't really discuss … not in the same sense you can discuss a novel or something , you ca n't really discuss a formula . |
| 23 | Despite his outdated slang , James understood him , and agreed , though not in the same sense as Alfred . |
| 24 | Individuals as third parties to treaties are not in the same position as third party States or organisations . |
| 25 | The money income-less wealth holder is not in the same position as the money income-less street dweller . |
| 26 | As it was , Lili chatted easily and Robert timed his eating to synchronise with her fluency ; when Lili stopped talking to eat he carried on , not in the same vein but sufficiently in harmony with her style not to upset the balance of conviviality . |
| 27 | They are contained ( though not quite in the same form and not in the same system of units ) in Chapter IX of Maxwell 's Treatise on electricity and magnetism published in 1873 . |
| 28 | The following are the main areas the vendor will be asked to warrant and are covered in the main sale agreement ( see Appendix III ) though not in the same order as they appear below . |
| 29 | There are old people , spouses and other relatives , caring for each other ; middle aged or ‘ younger ’ elderly people , mostly women , caring for the old ; and a variety of relatives , neighbours and friends , not in the same household , who perform some tending activities . |
| 30 | Reynolds had come across two others like it in all respects , but not in the same folder , and not with the incriminating paragraph ; that too was odd , in retrospect . |