Example sentences of "[not/n't] by the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The genes , as we shall see , are more like a recipe than like a blueprint ; and a recipe , moreover , that is obeyed not by the developing embryo as a whole , but by each cell or each local cluster of dividing cells . |
| 2 | In eleven of Cnut 's grants the Latin introduction to the boundaries is followed not by the first set of bounds but by an introduction in Anglo-Saxon . |
| 3 | By their fruits we shall know the peacemakers , not by the seraphic look on their faces . |
| 4 | He was replaced , not by the senior figure of Denis Healey , who was chained to his oar at the Treasury in the aftermath of the IMF cuts , but by the youthful and little-known figure of David Owen , Crosland 's junior minister at the Foreign Office . |
| 5 | When you have thought about all these things , when you have fully absorbed into the darkest parts of your mind the sub-human horror of them , you will realize , must realize , with the blinding force of a revelation that I could not by the very nature of my soul be so implicated in such a maze of lust and filth . |
| 6 | If things go well , it seems that , certainly by the end of the century if not by the earlier date of 1997 , it may be possible to form a single currency to which Germany , France , the Benelux countries , Denmark and the EFTA countries will belong . |
| 7 | It was indeed a bit like an LTP effect , though generated not by the artificial injection of current but by a behavioural experience . |
| 8 | Mono-crop economies are particularly vulnerable to the instabilities in the world market directed , not by the hidden hand of the market , but by the actions of a global collection of profit-maximizing capitalists , usually based in hegemon countries and often acting in unison . |
| 9 | Above all , Thompson insists that history is made , not by the inevitable operation of impersonal structures , but by the actions of real human beings . |