Example sentences of "not by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those of the maritime region remain moist for a longer season , and usually remain protected by ice or snow , if not by water , throughout winter . |
| 2 | I never judge individuals in moments of comfort and convenience and certainly not by self praise . |
| 3 | This has led them to postulate the existence of ‘ structures ’ in the animal 's head : in contrast , behaviourists are reluctant to say anything about what is in an animal 's head , other than that the members of a particular species have an innate tendency to be reinforced by some stimuli and not by others . |
| 4 | Another situation creating uncertainty as to party status is where reservations have been made to a treaty which have been objected to by some States but not by others . |
| 5 | Such has been reported to be the case by some authors ( Subirana , 1969 ; Luria , 1970 ) but not by others ( Russell and Espir , 1961 ; Newcombe and Ratcliff , 1973 ) . |
| 6 | Sub-regional specialties were strongly favoured by professional care staff if not by members or managers within the authorities . |
| 7 | But Thursday morning 's meeting was dominated not by Law but by Baldwin . |
| 8 | Observance of the custom is encouraged by social recognition and enforced not by law but buy social disapproval of its breach that may include exclusion , avoidance and other informal sanctions . |
| 9 | Lord Wilberforce said that this would be taxation by self-asserted administrative discretion and not by law ( p895 ) . |
| 10 | book , commandos would be — I believe — the first to accept that those who received awards usually owed a good deal to the support of their fellows , in spirit if not by arms . |
| 11 | Floy began to have the sensation that he was being watched , not by Balor or Snodgrass , but by other creatures , creatures who lived in this huge , dark forest , and crept out only under cover of darkness … |
| 12 | The Van Cliburn Piano Competition is the focus of both the cultural and the social life of Forth Worth ; founded not by Van Cliburn but by a Texan piano teacher in honour of the local hero . |
| 13 | Among all ants , of course , the young are normally fed not by parents but by workers , so it is workers that any would-be cuckoo must fool or manipulate . |
| 14 | Lung cancer , for example , is caused by the substances that accompany nicotine in tobacco smoke , not by nicotine itself . |
| 15 | ‘ Not by Suzi , and not by Georg . |
| 16 | Neff built up the firm 's business in the USA not by dint of one overwhelming individual personality , as Roche had done for Heidrick and Struggles , but by exemplifying the success of the Spencer Stuart method of problem-solving in management crises across a range of corporate sectors . |
| 17 | That 's fine as long as you do it deliberately and not by default . |
| 18 | What should be clear , however , is that whatever approach is arrived at is done through a thorough look at , and understanding of , the aims and objectives of the specific day care — and not by default . |
| 19 | In the period following the execution of the Demoiselles Picasso 's art was informed by two main principles or types of tribal art , the one flatter , more abstract and remote from European art , in which the basic planes of the face are differentiated not by relief but by the directions of the striations or hatchings with which they are covered , the other more solid , sculptural , three-dimensional and naturalistic . |
| 20 | Not by divorce . |
| 21 | Liz 's first marriage had lasted all of ten months : Alix 's had lasted slightly longer , and had been terminated not by divorce but by death . |
| 22 | PLEASE note questions must be sent in written form , not by telephone . |
| 23 | It emerged in the course of his travels that the way Iraq envisaged proceeding over ( d ) was not by contact with Iran through any third party , however prestigious , but by direct face-to-face discussions . |
| 24 | So any dwellings over and above sixteen and a half thousand , would only be taken by people moving into the county and not by locals . |
| 25 | We are guided not by fears and desires , but by an inner knowledge that is ours by right of battle . |
| 26 | Russell does not say what form the ‘ complicated arguments ’ about the validity of this argument might take , but the chapter in which it occurs is entitled ‘ Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description ’ , so it is reasonable to suppose that one thing that was bothering Russell was the possibility that a person who meaningfully uses the word ‘ I ’ does so in virtue of knowing something which he calls ‘ I ’ not by acquaintance , but by description . |
| 27 | It is a similar concept to the benefit of the division of labour , in that benefits are to be gained , not by persons doing what they can do best , but by persons doing what they can do relatively better than other people . |
| 28 | Keynes asserted that the real wage rate is determined , not by bargains between workers and employers , but by ‘ certain other forces ’ ( GT , p. 13 ) . |
| 29 | Tigger tries the patience of his fellows not by wickedness but by excessive high-spirits ; Rabbit attempts to teach Tigger a lesson in a rather unkind way ( in Chapter VII , ‘ In which Tigger is unbounced ’ , The house at Pooh Corner ) . |
| 30 | ‘ But I have , dear boy , and I know the tomb you mean though it is not by Taddeo Duodecimo as attributed . ’ |