Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] [verb] by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally indecent assault and gross indecency cases against males reported in the national press are not characterised by overt violence , but point to the dangers of the persuasive powers of people in positions of trust taking sexual advantage . |
| 2 | Substances whose concentrations are not affected by biological activity you 'll often see described as bio-unlimited compounds so you might come across that in your reading . |
| 3 | It is important that professional relationships with other schools are not damaged by aggressive marketing . |
| 4 | ( a ) What the records contain British Coal 's records show land where underground or opencast workings are ( or are contemplated ) except for the anomalous Forest of Dean Coalfield , Gloucestershire and area , where ancient private rights of mining are not recorded by British Coal . |
| 5 | It argues that protection for the birds is unnecessary as they are not threatened by current control practices . |
| 6 | There are a number of sports that are not supported by public funding and they include angling and archery , which are more popular than rugby league . |
| 7 | The common law liability still remains in all cases which are not covered by statutory provision . |
| 8 | SIR — Having been in the ‘ think-tank ’ of the Cheltenham rebels after the initial selection of John Taylor as Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate ( article , April 11 ) , I feel obliged to point out that the best of us are not motivated by knee-jerk racism . |
| 9 | The important question for the policeman interested in hypnosis is , does hypnosis enhance the recall of events which are not blocked by extreme trauma ? |
| 10 | They are not caused by individual neurosis , but it is being asserted that religion is best understood as if it were a symptom of a neurosis of humanity as a whole . |
| 11 | But most of the problems that we get are not caused by deliberate cheating , they 're caused by genuine mistakes . |
| 12 | While depression , incontinence , dementia , general aches and pains , and particular illnesses are more likely to develop they are not caused by old age itself . |
| 13 | Furthermore , it is the responsibility of formal carers to ensure that the least attractive and approachable of the old people , if they need help , are not neglected by informal care systems or , if that is unavoidable , that they are helped in other ways . |
| 14 | ‘ The vast majority of materials received now by the Library through copyright are not obtained by mandatory deposit , but through voluntary registration stimulated by the incentives of recovering statutory damages and attorneys ’ fees in infringement cases , ’ Mr Billington said . |
| 15 | With NaCl solution in the bath and high K + solution in the pipette ( V c o m =0 mV ) , the addition of 0.1 mM dibutyryl cAMP failed to elicit K + channel activity in 17 cell attached patches while recording for periods of up to 15 minutes , suggesting that K + channels in HGT-1 cells are not regulated by intracellular camp . |
| 16 | Finally , the decomposition of managerial hierarchies allows some managers to specialize in strategic decision-making and for this task to be performed by people who not only possess a relevant comparative advantage but also whose corporate loyalties are not compromised by undue devotion to narrow functional goals . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're forgetting — the Bridge functions are not controlled by human technology . |
| 18 | Other instances of police violence ( e.g. the batoning incident ) are not accompanied by spoken commentary , as if the reporter is reluctant to condemn such action . |
| 19 | Furthermore many serious injury and disease states are not accompanied by inevitable pain . |
| 20 | Visas are not required by British passport holders for Hungary or Czechoslovakia . |
| 21 | And such circumstances of course , are not helped by low income and poor , overcrowded housing . |
| 22 | In practice , however , students are not enthused by participative bureaucracy so that volunteers are difficult to find and are probably not representative . |
| 23 | The sensitivity of the instrument may be increased by increasing the power of the laser or by decreasing the level of stray light in the monochromator ; double- or even triple-grating monochromators are generally used to ensure that the Raman signals , often as weak as 10 -6 or less of the intensity of the exciting radiation , are not swamped by unshifted radiation by-passing the monochromator . |
| 24 | Items marked with an asterix ( * ) are not used by High Elf troops and are not therefore available to High Elf characters . |
| 25 | His opinions , he knows , are not shared by fellow portrait painters — he goes so far as to describe ‘ the rest ’ as producing ‘ old hat , boring , herd-of-sheep painting ’ , too preoccupied with imbuing a portrait with the sitter 's character . |
| 26 | This indicator can reliably differentiate between active and quiescent disease and is particularly useful in difficult cases when symptoms may not reflect active disease or when severe symptoms are not backed by abnormal laboratory tests . |
| 27 | Wet brakes offer long service life through oil immersion and are n't affected by external water . |
| 28 | And although it may be true that readers of Hot Press for example , are n't led by sexual ignorance into seeing man and woman only as adversaries , there also are those girls who are forced to go to England all the time for abortions and they ca n't be that far from the world I depict . |
| 29 | A low scan score correctly identified seven patients whose raised Crohn 's Disease Activity Index incorrectly indicated active disease because symptoms used in calculation of the index were not caused by active inflammation . |
| 30 | In each of these patients it was clear that the raised CDAI was caused either by the presence of symptoms which although contributin substantially tot he CDAI were not caused by active inflammation — for example , superimposed symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome in three patients and subacute intestinal obstruction from fibrous stricture in two patients , or to symptomatic anaemia ( one case ) . |