Example sentences of "not in [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old people who are not in frequent contact with younger people may lose confidence in their ability to give as well as to receive : Younger people , anxious to please , to give and , often , ‘ not to worry mother ’ may not realise the part which they play in creating a one-way traffic . |
| 2 | A polite but clear piece of blackmail to a politician who dominated , but was not in absolute control of , the writer 's county politics . |
| 3 | I am not in total disagreement with Chris Baines , but a great many of use have not choice in where and when we work , or how we travel there . |
| 4 | Moreover , the " floating " voters — those who were not in total agreement with any party — would stand above the party battle and would carefully assess the rival policy packages on offer before casting an informed vote , affecting the swing , and determining which party would form the next government . |
| 5 | ‘ Divine august Frederick is in character and appearance such man that he deserves to be studied even by those not in close contact with him . |
| 6 | Since power rests not just in individuals or groups but in anonymous social mechanisms and assumptions , they argued that the power of capital is revealed not in individual acts of decision-making but in the everyday application of ‘ those assumptions which give priority to private capital accumulation and market exchange in the use and distribution of resources ’ ( Westergaard and Resler , 1975 , p. 144 ) . |
| 7 | Such patients are not in legal custody by virtue of that section since they are not ‘ required or authorised by or by virtue of this Act to be conveyed to any place or to be kept in custody or detained in a place of safety or at any place to which he is taken under section 42(6) … . ‘ |
| 8 | In the case of another much-studied variable , ( r ) , we find in England ( but not in many parts of the United States ) that absence of post-vocalic [ r ] is characteristic of high-status speech and is moreover categorical except in some ( mainly ) western areas . |
| 9 | For these parts of the country the evidence on earnings would seem to justify Adam Smith 's observation of 1776 : " the high price of provisions during these ten years past has not in many parts of the kingdom been accompanied with any sensible rise in the money price of labour " . |
| 10 | The problem is one which can not ultimately be resolved in pedagogy but it needs to be recognized , not in negative terms as a licence either for imposing fixed ideas or for random expediency , but as a positive incentive for continuing enquiry , which will be sensitive to the circumstances of different learning/teaching situations . |
| 11 | But I am mindful in the midst of my own troubles ma'am that you are not in good health for Miss Blagden has told me so and I am sorry to hear it and to think of you unable to leave your room and I am sorry too that the Rome winter does not prove as gentle as you had hoped . |
| 12 | Well it 's certainly not in industrial use at the moment is it ? |
| 13 | The VAT guide ( Notice No 700 ( 1991 edition ) ) para 56 states that these words should be ‘ clearly marked ’ , ie not in small print at the very bottom of the document . |
| 14 | The role of generalized person in the infinitive thus allows a deeper understanding of those uses of the infinitive where it is not in syntactic relation with another verb and of the reasons why to is used in certain of these uses but not in others . |
| 15 | Loving relationships thrive in an open and honest environment , not in dark rooms behind locked doors . |
| 16 | Second , we should not forget that political parties are only a part of the political system and they are not in sole control of Britain 's economic destiny . |
| 17 | Where the director or directors is or are not in sole control of the company , there is no difficulty in holding that he or they can appropriate from the company and the property belong to another . |
| 18 | The duller reaches of committee work he spent , not in pointless doodling like his colleagues , but in producing elegant little drawings of imaginary but perfectly possible churches . |
| 19 | We are not in darkest prison like our brothers and sisters in the flesh , but we are under house arrest . |
| 20 | A sales representative , for example , is not in that position as he meets large numbers of people for a short time . |
| 21 | Not in that class of school . |
| 22 | on conditions of carriage for the same day operation but , not in that league at all . |
| 23 | ‘ Liam Shakespeare 's not in that house in London , ’ she said at last , in a small , level voice . |
| 24 | At the coal face , the butties were responsible for the actual mining processes , overseen by colliery company officials ; the butties were in charge of organizing and paying for the winning of coal , though not in all cases for its transport to the pithead . |
| 25 | He has permitted this development , which if not in actual breach of European environmental law , is certainly at odds with its spirit . |
| 26 | By contrast with Godwin and his circle , who grew out of a broad and rising general formation , at first not in critical relations with its own class , the Pre-Raphaelites , who were in majority from families of the commercial bourgeoisie , were in conscious opposition to the main cultural tendencies of their class , though they may finally be seen as articulating and expressing them . |
| 27 | In Amoco Lord Cross said the fact that a covenantor had obtained and would continue to enjoy benefits under the agreement which he claimed to be unenforceable was pro tanto a reason for holding that the covenant was not in unreasonable restraint of trade . |
| 28 | The retailer concentrates on a limited range of everyday items which he knows will sell quickly — you are unlikely to find goods which are not in regular use in the home . |
| 29 | Whilst these decision aids have been successfully used in certain instances , they are not in regular use in the majority of organisations . |
| 30 | Marble was not in general use in Rome until the early days of the Empire . |