Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] by the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why were its contents not scattered by the same hand that turned the records of the Strategy Unit out of their covers ? |
| 2 | The ‘ offset ’ policy extends the bubble concept so as to allow interfirm trading of emission permits among activities not located in the same plant or not owned by the same firm . |
| 3 | The company says its four other Magnox stations , which have similar steel pressure vessels , are not threatened by the same defect and the NII has allowed them to continue operations . |
| 4 | The obvious question is : If both verbs denote causation , why are they not followed by the same version of the infinitive ? |
| 5 | We shall begin our investigation of how causative verbs interact with the infinitive in English by looking at the contrast between make and cause because , although these two verbs seem quite similar in meaning , they are not followed by the same form of the infinitive : ( 134 ) While most enzymes can not make a reaction occur that would not take place in their absence , they speed up reactions so that they occur at the temperatures and other conditions which prevail within living organisms . |
| 6 | In all his years of teaching , Alexander did not come across anyone that was not afflicted by the same problem . |