Example sentences of "not in the [adj] [noun] " 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 | Only not in the biblical words ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The structural problem lies not in the overall placing , which is finely judged , but in an occasional lapse into spasmodic ( Latin American ? ) rubato . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This does not sound like a very practical proposition , at least not in the immediate future . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not at all sure that 's a necessary ingredient — not in the early stages , at least . |
| 13 | Some of the loudest voices there are not in the best tradition . |
| 14 | Perdita , not in the best mood after a cold shower , found him having breakfast . |
| 15 | That does address itself to a real evil , the grossly excessive creation of credit , but not in the best way . |
| 16 | There is a widely held view among many business experts that selling off a business to a management buy-out team is the easy way out and is not in the best interests of a company 's shareholders . |
| 17 | It was , he said , ‘ not in the best interests of cricket ’ . |
| 18 | However , once divisions are given some independence they may make decisions that are not in the best interests of the group as a whole . |
| 19 | All would agree with Mr Lester who says , ‘ The concept of three fairs is infinitely confusing and not in the best interests of Chicago ’ . |
| 20 | If an investigation is failing to produce results , it is , of course , not in the best interests of either police or press to maintain a high profile in such cases . |
| 21 | There comes a time when it is not in the best interests of the Company nor in the best interests of the employed for him or her to be protected in any way from the full consequences of addictive disease . |
| 22 | All the artificial constraints of maintaining a regulated monopoly mean that it is not in the best interests of the consumer . |
| 23 | 7.6.6.2 all money received in respect of the insurance effected by the Landlord pursuant to this clause shall belong to the Landlord The problem is that all of the events set out in 7.6.3 seem reasonable , but the fact is that any suspension of the landlord 's obligation to reinstate could lead to uncertainty , which is not in the best interests of either party . |
| 24 | Couple of points that were made in relation to this particular report was the backing by the employee side , erm , to the wages board initiative that took when we wrote to the government saying that we felt that the abolition of the wages board was not in the best interests erm , of the people of Lincolnshire . |
| 25 | This is not going to help them do that ; it 's not in the best interests of the parents , or of justice . ’ |
| 26 | They thought the entrance to the car park on the sheet was not in the best place , so they changed it . |
| 27 | Thirdly , and linked with the above point , it is sometimes not in the best interest of the victim to report a crime to the police . |
| 28 | In the game beginning at that time , which is a proper subgame of the original game , it is not in the best interest of the non-deviating firm actually to minimax the other . |
| 29 | The Navigation Acts were not in the first instance devised to make up for the fact that some English revenue was devoted to colonial defence , but defending the colonies came to be seen as an integral part of the Old Colonial System . |
| 30 | Foundationalism , viewed quite generally ( though here we must exclude Wittgenstein ) , can be seen as the expression of the empiricist thought that verification and justification , telling whether something is true and backing up one 's claims about what is true , must rely eventually upon the evidence of one 's senses ; not in the first instance , maybe , but at the end of the day . |