Example sentences of "not in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was not in the flighty , dumb-blonde mould . |
| 2 | ‘ Even if not in the biblical sense , ’ I agreed . |
| 3 | Only not in the biblical words ! |
| 4 | Not in the biblical sense but you know what I mean |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Despite the well-founded fear of the Securitate , for most of the period of Communist rule in Romania , the secret police was not in the front-line of control over the population . |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The structural problem lies not in the overall placing , which is finely judged , but in an occasional lapse into spasmodic ( Latin American ? ) rubato . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This does not sound like a very practical proposition , at least not in the immediate future . |
| 13 | If the truth be known , the obsession with training shoes for the youth of this country began in the late Seventies and not in the late Eighties , as some would have us believe . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm not at all sure that 's a necessary ingredient — not in the early stages , at least . |
| 16 | Rodney was not in the best of tempers because ( he kept saying ) he could n't see out of the rear window with that damned bicycle in the way . |
| 17 | Sara was not in the best of tempers because ( she kept saying ) she had nowhere to put her feet between the aubergines and the case of wine on the floor . |
| 18 | That does address itself to a real evil , the grossly excessive creation of credit , but not in the best way . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was , he said , ‘ not in the best interests of cricket ’ . |
| 21 | The CO was not in the best of tempers . |
| 22 | Some of the loudest voices there are not in the best tradition . |
| 23 | The buildings were not in the best of condition . |
| 24 | Both house and mill were recently offered for sale and , although not in the best of condition , their potential was obvious . |
| 25 | The frills and lace are Perhaps not in the best of taste , but fashionable nevertheless . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | His design should not be compared with that of the Houses of Parliament , which was ‘ not in the best and purest phase of Pointed architecture ’ . |
| 28 | Burke was not in the best of condition and had lost his fighting spirit because of his troubles with Byrne and O'Rourke . |
| 29 | She had seen the film , too , and I received a letter some time later from her husband , Mr Hallows , telling me that Odette was not in the best of health and they were moving house . |
| 30 | Though not in the best of health , Marian was determined to make her own way , accepting little else from Bloomsbury House except tickets for the occasional outing to the Wigmore Hall . |