Example sentences of "[not/n't] in the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I may be going deaf and it 's true I 'm not in the most robust of health but I 'm not daft . ’ |
| 2 | And not in the most propitious or enjoyable circumstances . |
| 3 | Women found him charming and attractive , though not in the most conventional way . |
| 4 | Long before Plowden many teachers had rejected traditional approaches to learning because they seemed to deny the way children thought and reasoned , the way in which children could grasp complex ideas , the way in which children dealt with information ( not in the neatly boxed subject areas beloved by academics but in broad chunks ) . |
| 5 | No , I do n't think so , not necessarily , not in the more general sense of the word therapeutic . |
| 6 | It appears that Parke B. was there using the words colore officii merely to denote an official demand and not in the more limited , and in my view , correct sense referred to by Isaacs J. , 11 C.L.R. 258 , 301 , and Windeyer J. , 102 C.L.R. 108 , 140 , in the cases to which I have already referred . |
| 7 | The thesis of that view is that man originated in rain forest and not in the more open habitats associated with the African finds . |
| 8 | In this respect , the discourse analyst is not in the apparently secure position of the formal linguist who has ‘ rules ’ of the language which are or are not satisfied , but rather , is in the position of the hearer who has interpretations of the discourse which do , or do not , make sense . |
| 9 | The Bolsheviks came to power not in the relatively peaceful conditions in which policy had been framed , but in conditions of social collapse . |
| 10 | ‘ 'I am not in the least racist . |
| 11 | Rather does Karajan seem to remind them at every point of what they had agreed on in countless hours of common endeavour ; and his movements — chiefly of the baton-less left hand — are functional , not in the least demonic . |
| 12 | Sir Alexander Seton was not in the least upset about being transferred down to the town . |
| 13 | Our native common holly is not in the least fussy about soil and grows on everything from acid loams to chalk , and species from China and the Himalayas are equally hardy and reliable . |
| 14 | ‘ No , ’ she agreed helplessly , not in the least convinced . |
| 15 | I was not in the least keen , but when it became clear to me that my intervention would be frowned upon only slightly by my television clients , added to the fact that I had established good relations with George Elvin , the ACTT 's general secretary , it seemed to me that there might be some sense in intervening . |
| 16 | Alpha is made up of two components of magnitudes 3 and 5 ; the separation is 231 seconds of arc , so that binoculars give a good view of the pair even though it is not in the least prominent . |
| 17 | Elizabeth , though not in the least religious , liked the ceremonies and seasonal activities of the Orthodox Church , but when the weather was unseasonable she wished the clergy would put nylon coverings over their handsome vestments . |
| 18 | He feels not in the least jaded by his winter , refreshed more . |
| 19 | The presence of a large predator of fish is not in the least surprising . |
| 20 | In retrospect , it is not in the least surprising that the provision of this space generated all kinds of questions about the nature of the ‘ lesbian and gay community ’ . |
| 21 | This will be the case quite regularly so that it is not in the least surprising if in many instances general expectations have crystallized into rigid habits ( which might be called syntactic " rules " ) governing the possibilities open to an adjective as a type item , irrespective of the facts of any particular token occasion . |
| 22 | The association of paranoid delusions of persecution by witches with solar fire-cults is therefore not in the least surprising ; in fact , it is exactly what we should have expected . |
| 23 | Though she possessed a serene temperament she was not in the least complacent , and welcomed suggestions and advice . |
| 24 | ‘ My good girl , I am not in the least drunk , ’ he told her , his brows lifting haughtily . |
| 25 | Fenella was trying to be very patient , because it was not in the least unreasonable of Caspar to want to go on and leave the Dark Workshops as far behind them as possible . |
| 26 | The boy was not in the least off-put . |
| 27 | He towered over me , looking anxious , rather flustered , and not in the least dangerous . |
| 28 | Indeed , it is amazing that Sir Leon Brittan should still refer to these ‘ costs ’ long after Pöhl has said quite clearly that they are irrelevant : ‘ the repeated reference to alleged huge savings in transaction costs for the currencies of a single currency area are not in the least convincing ’ . |
| 29 | Certainly the deliberate naïveté here is not in the least false , but has the limpid directness of some of the Chinese poems that Pound had marvellously transfigured in Cathay ( 1915 ) . |
| 30 | She was not in the least self-conscious of her body . |