Example sentences of "not in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Needless to say , she was not in the chorus as she had legs like inverted beer bottles . |
| 2 | It 's not in the recycling centre . |
| 3 | Rationalism , then , has its roots , not in the rise of science or the application of scientific methods to non-scientific phenomena , but with a misunderstanding of reason and the mistaken identification of knowledge with technique . |
| 4 | That is not to say that further development on a case by case basis may not in the course of time add further grounds . ’ |
| 5 | If , for example , the buyer sends his own lorry driven by one of his own employees to collect the goods , then the goods , once loaded onto the lorry , are not in the course of transit but are in the buyer 's possession . |
| 6 | It was held that his sale of his old car was not in the course of his business . |
| 7 | The Law Society published guidelines in question and answer form as to accounting for commission received on 23 October 1991 in 88 L S Gazette 33. ( b ) Professional undertakings An undertaking given by a solicitor in the course of his practice or by his employee on his behalf or by a solicitor qua solicitor ( whether or not in the course of his practice ) and made with the intent that it should be relied upon is binding in law upon that solicitor personally . |
| 8 | It may , of course , happen that he deliberately holds himself out as a partner for his own private benefit and not in the course of his work or in the interests of the firm . |
| 9 | This case was decided under the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 , the defendant being acquitted of applying a false trade description because the sale was not in the course of a trade or business due to the absence of regularity . |
| 10 | The really fundamental point of dispute between Keynes 's analysis of the labour market and that of his classical predecessors lay , not in the depiction of a state of general unemployment , but in his rejection of the classical theory of disequilibrium adjustment . |
| 11 | I do not think they are ; not in the night itself anyhow . |
| 12 | ‘ They were not in the safe ? ’ |
| 13 | Moreover , the detailed cross-tabulations ( not in the Appendix ) showed that people who had ended up using bank loans were more likely than other borrowers to have considered some other forms of credit too — usually HP . |
| 14 | Also , the detailed cross-tabulations ( not in the Appendix ) showed that when APR and/or total credit cost was lower for shorter repayment periods , people who had originally chosen the very longest possible repayment period tended to switch — if they switched at all — to a repayment period right at the other end of the scale . |
| 15 | These two cone types are present in almost equal numbers , and not in the ratio of 2:1 that has been postulated for the human fovea . |
| 16 | Perhaps it is seeking to increase the audience , or perhaps it was lead astray for a while by the fact that , during the Conservative leadership contest , the exciting politics at Westminster were not in the Chamber . |
| 17 | As the Hon. Member for Dumfries is not in the Chamber to press his point , I shall charitably do it for him . |
| 18 | I regret the fact that I was not in the Chamber for the speech of the hon. Member for Pudsey ( Sir G. Shaw ) , but my hon. Friend the Member for Durham , North-West ( Ms. Armstrong ) , who was here , told me that he made a heavily veiled criticism of Government policy for its lack of recognition of progress as a key measure of the effectiveness of schools , and expressed concern about the morale of teachers who , he said , were not sufficiently recognised by society . |
| 19 | I am sorry that the Secretary of State was not in the Chamber when the hon. Gentleman ended by saying that his last ambition in politics was to abolish the Department in which he served for eight years . |
| 20 | The hon. Member for Eastbourne ( Mr. Bellotti ) , who is not in the Chamber now , complained about the amount that people had to pay . |
| 21 | In the Select Committee , the hon. Member for Teignbridge ( Mr. Nicholls ) , who is not in the Chamber now , moved to amend paragraph 88 of the report . |
| 22 | It is a pity that the hon. Member for Cambridgeshire , North-East ( Mr. Moss ) is not in the Chamber . |
| 23 | She could lose herself in a place like this ; if not in the valley itself , then in some other part of the region . |
| 24 | Finally , another of the ‘ new ’ songs , the famous Plaint , ‘ O let me weep , is not in the manuscript at all ( as Shedlock noted ) , nor was any space left for it ; and the score also lacks ‘ When I have often heard young maids complaining ’ , a song that was in the first version of the show and actually published in 1692 , in a slim volume entitled Select Songs in the Fairy Queen . |
| 25 | centre of things , but not in the centre here . |
| 26 | Although the , the hub of the sails is more or less in the centre of this photograph it 's not in sent not in the sense of , of the area of vision because you 've got a lot of dark area here so that tends to move the centre of vision so it becomes this bit , if you like , and so that 's not in the centre there . |
| 27 | Well I was very lucky to have gone in the legs and not in the head ! |
| 28 | And when this happy moment arrived , it was crowned with legitimacy , because like many tribal societies the public school was a gerontocracy-an important fact obscured more often than not in the literature by concentration on the oligarchic aspect of the power exercised by favoured groups of senior boys : prefects , athletes , bloods , in slightly differing proportions according to the slightly differing character of the individual schools , but all essentially distinguished by seniority . |
| 29 | But we think , ’ Rose said , ‘ it was done to disguise the fact that the poison that killed Sir Thomas was not in the entrée at all , but in another dish . |
| 30 | And note 62/6/2 emphasises that ‘ the right of a mortgagee to his costs of a redemption or foreclosure suit is a matter of contract and not in the discretion of the court , except where he has ‘ unreasonably instituted or carried on or resisted any proceedings . ’ ’ |