Example sentences of "not the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the the there 's not the call in this er place for , for women in the weaving department . |
| 2 | At least , is this not the tendency in the beginning with most very young children and certainly with lively , healthy ones ? |
| 3 | What bothers me ultimately is not the tempos in themselves , but the sense that the driving force resides exclusively within the music . |
| 4 | This is the good side of politics , not the back-stabbing in Westminster , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Now the tense of the main verb , in other words not the bit in the when clause or the as soon as clause or whatever , normally virtually it gives it away because if it 's future in the main the chances are extremely high that it 's going to be future in French at least in the time clause . |
| 6 | Doug said : ‘ We had the equipment but not the furniture in which to store it . |
| 7 | Approaching this cosmology , it is natural for an outsider to suppose that the Chinese can think only concretely , after the analogies of breathing or the veins in jade ( a supposition encouraged by misunderstandings of Chinese script as a kind of picture-writing ) , while he thinks abstractly ; that the Chinese are wrong and he is right ( for is not the universe in fact composed of matter obeying the laws of nature ? ) ; that the Chinese are trapped within an unchanging conceptual scheme while he is free to go wherever reason bids . |
| 8 | This is not the spirit in which one becomes a woman . ’ |
| 9 | By where she was going she meant her uncertain , unpredictable future , not the hotel in Bloomsbury which was just a jumping-off ground . |
| 10 | Such relationships belong to problem novels , rather than to novels of action , to fiction where a place is not the scene in which action develops but a certain spot where characters place themselves in order to talk . |
| 11 | Not the organisation in the usual sense because , whatever else it does , primary nursing does not reduce staffing levels and therefore costs . |
| 12 | This is so , to speak metaphorically , since almost all mental events , although not the ones in which we are principally interested , are elsewhere than at the focus of consciousness . |
| 13 | Not the teachers in this school ? |
| 14 | Not the teachers in this school . |
| 15 | It is not the sense in which a lamppost in the distance appears shorter than one a few feet away . |
| 16 | This is not the sense in which it is used here . ) |
| 17 | The eighties was not the decade in which people abandoned railways , not anyway in Britain . |
| 18 | Is not the difficulty in which you are placed the fact that there are now only four Government Back-Bench Members representing Scotland , and 63 of different parties on the Opposition side of the House ? |
| 19 | No it 's not the soap in that box is lying down in the coal hole . |
| 20 | Because there 's not the ingredients in the cleanser that there is the moisturizer and if you have any cleanser on the skin it 's blocking the work of the moisturizer . |
| 21 | The scheme is applicable whether or not the school in question is the student 's main base . |
| 22 | It also entitles observers from the State in which the aircraft is registered to be present at the inquiry if that State is not the State in which the accident occurs . |
| 23 | These bacteria are termed aerobic , meaning they require oxygen to function and trickle filters are ideal because they rely upon the surrounding atmosphere for this oxygen — not the water in the aquarium as is the case with submerged filtration systems . |
| 24 | The wind only blew out the candles but not the enthusiasm in our hearts as we prayed and sang in honour of Our Lady . |
| 25 | Later they constructed arches with radiating voussoirs — though they were not the inventors in Europe of this type of construction : the Greeks were building in this way from the fifth century . |
| 26 | First I would relax , lie upon a bed , although not the bed in which I normally slept , go through the breathing exercises until I felt that I was part of the bed , weightless and sinking through it . |
| 27 | And have you not the heart in you to be anything but best ? |
| 28 | Old Testament quotations are given as what God said , even though God was not the speaker in the Old Testament context . |
| 29 | Likewise , in natural selection it is physical differences , not the differences in reproductive expectancies estimated from them , that can cause and can explain subsequent reproductive performance differences . |
| 30 | Shrewd guessing at tendency is not the jewel in his casket . |