Example sentences of "[adv] [not/n't] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Adoption of an athenian model of action for closure initiatives was thus not out of the question .
2 ‘ He 's just not up to the job .
3 ‘ There are n't enough of them and they 're just not up to the standards women want .
4 He toured Britain in 1955 and competed in the British Grand Prix at Aintree but had to retire after 34 laps in his Cooper-Bristol that was just not up to the task of Formula One racing against the likes of Moss and Fangio 's Mercedes .
5 The manager who took Sunderland to Wembley six months ago knows that he 's still not out of the woods , but he has turned back the clock in a bid to stay in business .
6 Flotation is still not out of the picture , with 1994 being forecast as the big year .
7 Oh I hope so , but still not out of the woods yet
8 I have great sympathy with the needs of village schools but at the end ofg the day we have to consider the needs of the children and I have no doubt in my mind that trying to open a school in Brockweir is simply not on for the children .
9 Yesterday 's stage-managed show of Tory loyalty do not remove the widespread doubts that Mr Major is simply not up to the job .
10 However , the cost is high ( but falling ) and the quality of the final product is sometimes not up to the standard of high-class manually digitized material .
11 Above all , local educational standards were as yet not up to the demands put upon them by ‘ the Centre ’ .
12 The paintwork on the back of the bootlid looked decidedly patchy and certainly not up to the high standard on the rest of the car .
13 However , the Provincials are certainly not out of the frame by an means and although beaten by the PGL , must not be under-rated in any department by the high flying NIBA side .
14 I think we 're the better all round team when playing well so a win is certainly not out of the question .
15 ‘ The mood in our camp is still good though , we 're certainly not down in the doldrums .
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