Example sentences of "not [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I 'll do it by process of elimination ; find out what I 'm not bit by bit until I know who I am . ’ |
| 2 | So we were able to tell how many tickets of certain classes were sold each day but not route by route , we 'd lost that that facility because the waybills just were n't big enough and of course the , wa everything got mechanical but now I mean I do n't profess to know anything about what happens now but I was introduced to it when I went down there for a retirement and believe me it 's , it 's all electronics now they can tell how a ticket machine is issuing tickets at any particular one day by this , this electronic business , this computers . |
| 3 | Some of those who have , like the east European Mennonites , were not Germans by origin at all ( unless all speakers of Germanic languages are counted ) , but Flemings or Frisians . |
| 4 | Yet panels have to be one above the other , not side by side . |
| 5 | In an effort to recoup some of his lost prestige , he attempted to do by negotiation what he dared not attempt by force and so conceived a plan for the purchase by France of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , the acquisition of which would strengthen France 's eastern frontier . |
| 6 | It is not management by consensus by any means , ’ says one former colleague . |
| 7 | Those who listened to him critically were dismayed he could not see that it was not disapproval by pacifists , intellectuals or even cowards that made the Nazi assaults an atrocity . |
| 8 | Does he recognise that dialogue is not criticism by Ministers of everyone else 's proposals without making any positive contribution themselves ? |
| 9 | ‘ It does n't matter that he 's not perbene by birth . |
| 10 | Alexei knew that he had always been aware of her — they were not strangers by any means — but now he straightened and stared in open admiration . |
| 11 | So the man could calculate exactly what he was earning you know , hour by hour if not day by day and week by week . |
| 12 | Not only is it raining , it 's 5 o'clock , and though I 'm not defeatist by nature I do n't even bother looking for a taxi , deciding instead to walk the two miles back to the London flat . |
| 13 | The problem is , the term Lamarckism has changed its meaning in the course of this century , and now Lamarckism , if you say Lamarckism to most educated people , the first thing they normally think of , is not evolution by will , or , or progressivism , but inheritance of acquired characteristics . |
| 14 | However , the matter at issue in the cases now before the court is not access by vessels of member states to fishing activities in the Community but access by nationals of member states to vessels and to the operation of vessels . |
| 15 | The common abuses of public power are not abuses by the sovereign parliament itself . |
| 16 | Britain retained a parliamentary form of government , but what that meant was not government by Parliament but government through Parliament . |
| 17 | That was just as well as our engineers were not professionals by any means , although they always coped very well and our engines gave very little trouble . |
| 18 | ( b ) United Kingdom delegated legislation In terms of quantity , the most prolific source of legislation in the United Kingdom today is not enactment by Parliament . |
| 19 | Clarity and efficiency are , for example , not criteria by which we judge social talk , and the world would be a very unpleasant place if they were . |
| 20 | The market is changing not year by year , but month by month . |
| 21 | Not twins by any means , but close enough . |
| 22 | A. T. If you wanted to have a smoke — we used to have smokes : we were n't angels by any means — you had to get into a shop doorway , put your cigarette in your mouth , strike a match , shield it with your hand , and then blow the match out and then your hand would go up your sleeve . |
| 23 | and I suddenly , I suddenly thought I said your father is n't Terry by any chance ? |
| 24 | They did n't say that an and but they in this particular area , remember this is n't fly by wire , this is fly by light . |