Example sentences of "not [be] [verb] by a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the second wave of Irish films gearing up for release , only one has not been made by a British director . |
| 2 | Had the player not been defied by a remarkable save by Kopke , Ferguson 's value would have soared in time for the day when Dundee United are finally made the offer they can not refuse . |
| 3 | The difference arises because the expected reduction in research income , a trend affecting many universities as a result of a move towards greater selectivity , has not been matched by a corresponding increase in teaching funding . |
| 4 | However , when normal platelets were incubated with increasing glucose concentrations in vitro thromboxane production was unaffected ( Best et al , 1979 ) , and the findings of Halushka et al ( 1981 b ) and McDonald et al ( 1982 ) have not been supported by a recent study of platelet thromboxane generation before and after CS11 ( Jackson et al , 1984 ) . |
| 5 | Distortions and rigidities in the labour market have meant that rising unemployment has not been accompanied by a matching fall in wage rates . |
| 6 | In this way a genuine , inward understanding of that work is obtained by the shadow , which could not be obtained by a simple briefing or organized visit . |
| 7 | Obviously , when a post can not be filled by a British executive because it requires a more cosmopolitan background a client would turn to headhunters with a strong overseas network ; and there was a general feeling that in these cases long-established major international search firms were preferable . |
| 8 | Other people need to be excited by new approaches and this can not be achieved by a dull and formal memorandum . |
| 9 | Reversing this trend , if it is to be reversed , can not be achieved by a new minimalism . |
| 10 | The equally conservative nobles of Smolensk echoed Tula 's belief in the need for joint discussions with " representatives from other provinces ' , while the nobles of Tver " , one of the few gentry groups to espouse the cause of immediate emancipation rather than the conversion of serfs into temporarily obligated peasants , argued that the new laws had been botched , that " the reforms so urgently required can not be achieved by a bureaucratic order " , and that the " convocation of elected representatives from all the Russian land represents the only means for a satisfactory solution " . |
| 11 | Two further factors result in a five-dimensional model which can not be represented by a two-dimensional drawing . |
| 12 | The problem is that impressions and attitudes are very vague things , and can not be explained by a traditional approach to communication , which assumes that the hearer 's task in utterance interpretation is to identify a proposition or set of propositions specifically intended by the speaker together with the speaker 's attitude towards those propositions . |
| 13 | This difference can not be explained by a higher level of prosecutions for regulatory offences . |
| 14 | He asks if the redshift of distant galaxies could not be explained by a universal contraction towards a point which is , as yet , beyond our observational limits . |
| 15 | There is no reason why a legal issue should not be determined by a legal expert . |
| 16 | Because of interaction , component values can not be determined by a simple ‘ rule of thumb ’ and it is necessary to equate the response in terms of impedances with that in terms of time constants . |
| 17 | This was primarily an attempt to deal with synonyms which can not be conflated by a rule-based stemming procedure . |
| 18 | The generalist administrator is concerned to take this wider view and not be bound by a narrow perspective . |
| 19 | These were considerations that could not be ignored by a Conservative leader , Austen Chamberlain had been toppled in 1922 because he had not withdrawn from an unpopular coalition in time ; and one of the motives for the destruction of the Lloyd George coalition was a desire to replace it by a protectionist government . |
| 20 | And he said the 800-strong workforce would not be affected by a proposed EC blanket ban on tobacco advertising . |
| 21 | He said the 800-strong workforce would not be affected by a proposed European Community blanket ban on tobacco advertising . |
| 22 | Although their child will not be characterised by a recognisable physical appearance , the child will still often behave in what might be termed an abnormal fashion . |
| 23 | It is of course true that the work they carried out may or may not be done by a small part of some other organization but this in itself is a startling example of fragility . |
| 24 | Political as it was , it was made by Queen in Council and can not be overturned by a mere change of government . |
| 25 | And be especially careful with formulations of the kind illustrated in the examples below ; do not be misled by a direct interrogative — the answer is never just a long version of " yes " or " no " : |
| 26 | Should not be ruled by a foreign power . |
| 27 | And large numbers can physically cause severe damage which could not be caused by a smaller number of people . |
| 28 | Ask for details of sensations , where they are situated , where they move to , how they start and change , find out what the pattern is but take care to use open ended questions whenever possible ; questions that can not be answered by a simple ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ , such as ‘ How does your head feel ? ’ instead of ‘ Do you have a headache ? ’ |
| 29 | I mean only to endorse a complex , two-stage way of reasoning about the responsibilities of officials and citizens that finds a natural expression in the personification of community and can not be reproduced by a reductive translation into claims about officials and citizens one by one . |
| 30 | It was difficult , in any of this , to discover what a future socialist or communist society would be like ; if there was consensus about anything it was that it would not be based upon public ownership , would not be dominated by a single ruling party , would not supersede capitalism and might not even offer an alternative to it . |