Example sentences of "not out " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , repartition is not out of the question . |
| 2 | Our interpretation of the field situation therefore becomes a specific and unusual type of ‘ anthropology at home ’ , for it is not out there in the exotic or even in the backyard . |
| 3 | The couples frequently face each other looking into each other 's faces and appear to crouch over their feet slightly which emphasises the ‘ down to earth ’ quality as most steps appear to go down into and not out of the ground . |
| 4 | This seems to me to illustrate what I would call the ‘ Breakthrough Phenomenon ’ : the sudden discovery that something which has been assumed to be out of the question is not out of the question at all . |
| 5 | Then , after a bit , it becomes not something unacceptable , but something accepted or at least something which is demonstrated to be not out of the question . |
| 6 | Here , among ‘ Prayer wheels , worship of the dead , denial of this world , affirmation of rites with forgotten meanings ’ , some of the stuff of Eliot 's earlier poetry and his anthropological researches , there comes a visionary instant of incarnation forming a link between God and man and , in Eliot 's own poetry , between Ash-Wednesday and Four Quartets : ‘ A moment not out of time , but in time , in what we call history ; transecting , bisecting the world of time , a moment in time but not like a moment of time . ’ |
| 7 | Not out of any idea that taking drugs was morally wrong but simply because I was already enjoying myself and did n't feel the need of any chemical additions to that enjoyment . |
| 8 | Just to herself — you know , not out loud like she normally does . |
| 9 | Yet look not out . |
| 10 | He made films like Sanders of the River ( 1935 ) and The Four Feathers ( 1939 ) , featuring courageous British aristocrats going off to fight for the British empire , not out of a sentimental admiration for those times , but because the Empire provided good stories , as Hollywood also found at the time . |
| 11 | Pakistan were 699 for five in reply to India 's first innings score of 509 when the game was called off 10 overs into the final hour with Shoaib 203 not out . |
| 12 | Miandad , 84 not out overnight , went on to make 145 in six hours — his 22nd century in his 100th Test — before being bowled by Ravi Shastri . |
| 13 | Shoaib , 90 not out overnight , reached his double century by hitting Shastri for his 19th four through the midwicket area . |
| 14 | It remains England 's highest opening partnership — 359 , both men not out . |
| 15 | Such an agreement is not out of the question . |
| 16 | Imran Khan was not out nine with Shoaib Mohammad on 13 . |
| 17 | I think he got out of the flat first and not out of debt . |
| 18 | ‘ If it 's not out of your way , ’ she said , serenely , knowing that it was n't , and McLeish got to his feet , savouring self-consciously the sensation of being whole-heartedly envied by the surrounding male drinkers . |
| 19 | He was not out to break the mould , just to collect better data . |
| 20 | He has found several different types of Anomalocaris ; from studying the whole lot , he thinks he can make a case for saying that it belongs with the arthropods , not out on its own . |
| 21 | Lloyd , a cousin of Lance Gibbs , made his Test debut against India in 1966–7 and scored 82 and 78 not out . |
| 22 | By the end of the second Test , Willey 's last nine Test innings had produced 90 runs , and , had he been caught when on 13 at Old Trafford , his Test days would almost certainly have been over ; as it was , his 62 not out there and his reputation as a battler persuaded the selectors to press on with him , and he justified their faith now . |
| 23 | It was dominated by a century from Richards , which on the fourth morning he took in explosive style to 182 not out when Lloyd declared on 379 for 7 . |
| 24 | Downton and Emburey kept him company for a while , and when number eleven Dilley joined him he had 69 ; when Dilley was out for 2 next morning Willey had completed his century , a splendid 102 not out that took England to 271 , Croft finishing with 6 for 74 . |
| 25 | They were lucky to lose almost three hours to rain , but Gower was still there at the end of the last day , having batted seven and three-quarter hours for 154 not out . |
| 26 | Larry Gomes contributed 92 not out as he and Greenidge made an undefeated 287 , a new second-wicket record by either side in these Tests . |
| 27 | His Test debut came in the same match as Gordon Greenidge against India in 1973–4 , Greenidge totalling 200 runs and Richards 7 ; in the next game he made 192 not out and was under way . |
| 28 | Two of his most memorable innings came in one-day internationals , the 138 not out in the 1979 World Cup final and the 189 not out at Old Trafford in 1984 which single-handedly transformed a desperate situation into a winning one , and which will surely never be forgotten by anyone who saw it . |
| 29 | Two of his most memorable innings came in one-day internationals , the 138 not out in the 1979 World Cup final and the 189 not out at Old Trafford in 1984 which single-handedly transformed a desperate situation into a winning one , and which will surely never be forgotten by anyone who saw it . |
| 30 | It was Marshall who took the game right away from England , holding together the tail for 62 not out and stretching the total to 399 . |