Example sentences of "[vb pp] not by the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was as she hesitated , thinking of Liam , touched as so often , and usually at the wrong moment , by the silence and sadness of him which so troubled her , wondering if a sugar stick would lighten it , that she felt herself suddenly surrounded not by the usual ebb and flow of the market day crowd but by something much more purposeful . |
| 2 | The discovery was made not by the local health officials or the DHSS but at Ahrens ' own instigation , using the services of a London specialist and Manchester University 's rheumatology department which studies aluminium uptake in dialysis patients . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If schools were obliged to take in this maximum number , they might opt out , since as a grant-maintained school their numbers would be fixed not by the 1979 limit , but by the article of government of that particular school . |
| 6 | It was indeed a bit like an LTP effect , though generated not by the artificial injection of current but by a behavioural experience . |
| 7 | These situations may be characterised not by the actual risk felt in the situation but by the potential for risky situations to occur at the junction . |
| 8 | There were many interesting features about this project , not least that it was funded not by the British Library but the Government 's Department of Environment — an indicator of the recognition that information use is not simply a library problem . |
| 9 | On the other hand , it fits very well with the fact that , while obviously having a relation of some sort with the noun , these adjectives are questioned not by the interrogative word usual for attributive adjectives , but by a word which typically is used to question adverbs . |
| 10 | By early in the seventeenth century several of the states of Europe — France , England , the Dutch republic , Venice — already had permanent diplomatic representatives more or less securely established in Constantinope ( though the English and Dutch ones at least were for long concerned above all merely with the fostering of their countries ' trade : the former continued to be paid not by the British government but by a group of merchants , the Levant Company , until as late as the 1820s ) . |
| 11 | If such plants are kept under artificial light these strange movements continue , for they are triggered not by the fading light , but by the plant 's biological clock . |