Example sentences of "not [adv] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole House will be very relieved to know that such a matter is not entirely in a Minister 's hands . |
| 2 | The medium of an art critic as theoretician is the magazine or journal article , not necessarily in a publication specialising in art . |
| 3 | Their views frequently are less innovative ( not necessarily in a pejorative sense ) than the next generation over whom they have considerable control . |
| 4 | Such a view of the teacher 's role would amount to a thoroughgoing ‘ secularization ’ of the schools , though not necessarily in a literal sense . |
| 5 | What was less obvious was the effect on the system as a whole , which had evolved over a long period of time influenced by a variety of political and economical pressures , and not necessarily in a methodical manner . |
| 6 | Peer pressure is a factor , but not necessarily in a coercive way ; a teenager who is n't sure how to smoke a joint will be more worried about losing face from doing it wrong than not doing it at all . |
| 7 | Much of his criticism does look back , although not necessarily in a particularly informed way : ‘ Realism historically has always been mainly the mode for reaching the vulgar , the great lump of people … |
| 8 | But not necessarily in a negative way : he had used his blackness to become a better boxer . |
| 9 | Most people expect the PLA to intervene more openly in the next political crisis , but not necessarily in a unified manner . |
| 10 | In February or March , when spring was waiting to burst out but the trees were still leafless and the earth grey and cold , Sophia used sometimes to pretend that she was in Italy — not necessarily in a beautiful or famous part but perhaps in some obscure little town in the Alban Hills or a dusty coastal village between Naples and Sorrento . |
| 11 | The operations of the latter in the money markets are frequently designed to move short-term rates of interest up or down ; and movements in short-term rates usually affect medium- and long-term rates , albeit not necessarily in a one-to-one manner . |
| 12 | Any one person may hold aspects of each together , though not necessarily in a way which is successfully integrated . |
| 13 | The bourgeoisie of the third quarter of the nineteenth century was overwhelmingly ‘ liberal ’ , not necessarily in a party sense ( though as we have seen Liberal parties were prevalent ) , as in an ideological sense . |
| 14 | The table also makes it clear that older publications were not necessarily in a significantly greater state of disrepair than more recent items . |
| 15 | He had clearly worked hard , but not perhaps in a focussed way . |
| 16 | That is not much in an outstanding total of $800 billion — three times the size of the junk-bond market — but it was still the third-worst year , by value , since the association started to keep records in the 1950s . |
| 17 | Whereas for Horvath and Sankoff ( as noted above ) the linguistic variables are ‘ well defined ’ , this is not so in a dialect-divergent community : in such a community few of the linguistic variables can be said to be defined at all . |
| 18 | You have to train people to become doctors or engineers or professors , and at the same time to train them in questioning all that — not only in a critical way , but I would say in a deconstructive way . |
| 19 | With cinema admissions expanding rapidly , Rank was not only in a buoyant financial condition , but also in a strong position to negotiate a deal , which would secure his films a fair return from the US market , with major American companies increasingly concerned to protect their UK earnings . |
| 20 | Basingstoke can look back with pride , not only in a record crowd of 4,091 but in extending the reputation of non-League clubs for friendliness . |
| 21 | With me it has done well not only in a sheltered , sunny position ( the best conditions ) but also in a place where it has only a few hours of direct sunshine each day . |
| 22 | Not only in a simple financial sense but also in a spiritual sense . |
| 23 | It was important , bearing in mind private viewing , that bodies should be not only as wholesome as possible but also as well dressed ; and dressed not only in a material according to social status but also in as well upholstered a coffin as funds would permit . |
| 24 | Teddy has lots of people to thank , including such nice FlyPast -type people as W/C Chris Booth of 8 Squadron who got him flying not only in a Shackleton , but in 8 Squadron 's new Boeing E–3 Spinning Coffee Table ; Teddy 's logbook itself came courtesy of Vulcan XH558 ; thanks also to Plane Sailing , Sally B , the Old Flying Machine Company , the Fighter Collection and the Shuttleworth Collection . |
| 25 | Berridge ( 1985 ) , for example , describes the considerable isolation of residential workers , not only in a personal sense , but also professionally . |
| 26 | The result was evident not only in a growing emigration movement but also in the disproportionately high number of Jews in the most radical political parties . |
| 27 | The assessment of various regulatory alternatives to solve financial market regulatory problems requires governments and regulators to make appropriate policy choices not only in a reasoned and cost-effective way , but with regard to issues of fairness . |
| 28 | Epithets such as " naughty " or " dirty " , or their implication , may result not only in a general feeling of unworthiness in the child but also in a sense that they apply to anal-genital matters as a whole . |
| 29 | Yes , I gave him my heart … and my body , put willingly and joyfully at his continual disposal , not only in a sexual way but as general factotum . |
| 30 | A long struggle by writers to establish first domestic and then international copyright resulted not only in a new concept of literary property but new , or at least amended , social relationships of writers . |