Example sentences of "not be in [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Muhtarram is also on a ‘ high ’ and would appear to be a big danger to Opera House although Dermot Weld reports that Market Booster who also goes for the Arc ‘ could not be in better form . ’
2 Thus the person being cared for must be receiving attendance allowance , in recognition that s/he is ‘ severely disabled ’ ; the carer must not be in full-time education or earning ( from April 1992 ) more than £40 a week ; carers can not take more than four weeks ' holiday in any six-month period , nor can the disabled person be in hospital for more than four weeks at a time .
3 ‘ Decisions about who has access to the gene should not be in private hands in the first place , ’ he said .
4 One of our concerns is that our ex-service men should not be in temporary accommodation .
5 It is our dawning awareness that peat may not be in endless supply , and the prevalent fashion to be ‘ green ’ that have opened the way to alternatives .
6 This provision has caused a great deal of controversy since different countries have classified certain jobs as public functions , which they may not be in other countries , and this domestic classification has been used as a bar to foreign nationals applying for those jobs .
7 Mrs Thatcher 's heart would not be in that approach , any more than the Labour Party has yet taken the need for high interest rates to its bosom .
8 will not be in that category because it will be totally funded by the Department of Health ah as and when it comes along .
9 Mm it it may it may not be in that nature because the nature of of supply teaching work of course is that
10 If you work hard you will not be in that situation .
11 So until that comes out I can not actually confirm what may or may not be in that manifesto .
12 I think , I may not be in perfect shape , but I ai n't gon na run away from you .
13 Although it is understandable that the Minister can not be in two places at once , will she assure the House that her noble Friend will make a strong contribution to the conference ?
14 However , there is no reason why one person may not be in two ( or more ) guises within LIFESPAN .
15 As a one-term loser Bush will not be in great demand for £15,000 a time dinner speeches and lectures across the globe .
16 Palace have won just once in the Premier League all season and could not be in worse shape to face Liverpool tonight in the Coca-Cola Cup as they attempt to exorcise the haunting memory of their 9-0 Anfield thrashing in 1989 .
17 The following Sunday Pat Muldoon stood in what had formerly been his local church at Gross Pointe , Michigan , and sang to the heavens , ‘ If I can help somebody , as I go along , then my living will not be in vain … . ’ without paying the slightest attention to the meaning of the words .
18 To both of them , the human sacrifice of 1914–18 created not just a deep loathing of war but also a determination that such sacrifice should not be in vain .
19 The onus is surely on the proponents of this ‘ rush for roads ’ to prove that those sacrifices will not be in vain .
20 His brother in law hopes their efforts will not be in vain .
21 And father we pray that our hope may not be in vain but may lead us to sharing again in your kingdom .
22 Klemperer 's live account of Mahler 's Kindertotenlieder with the same orchestra may not be in such good sound , but with Kathleen Ferrier as soloist this is another important document , and it is coupled with an unrivalled version of Brahms 's Liebeslieder-Walzer from the 1952 Edinburgh Festival .
23 Others may not be in such a happy position .
24 ‘ Please , you can not be in such a rush .
25 If we did that , there would be much less of a problem and we would not be in such deep water with the European Commission .
26 Perhaps these people feel , as do members of the local communities , that the coastline would not be in such urgent need of ‘ protection ’ were it not for the imminent threat of creation of a housing development , larger than the existing village of Dirleton , adjacent to it .
27 This attitude also led him to express his distaste for the American-sponsored discussions on world trade , known as the Kennedy Round , that were currently being conducted within GATT : again , he suspected that they would produce a heightened American influence in Europe , something that would not be in Western Europe 's or France 's interests .
28 Yet an evaluation seems so often to be understood more as a sort of independent commission of enquiry undertaken at a fairly late stage in the life of a programme or project by ‘ experts ’ from outside whose findings may or may not be in straightforward language .
29 And this normally will not be in some remote centralised corporate planning department .
30 As for sociable hours , I would not be in this trade if I expected to work nine to five , Monday to Friday .
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