Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [adv] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is personal and not explained solely by the fact that Lang has a marginal seat and the SNP is the main competitor . |
| 2 | Marx found the answer to this problem in his belief that , in the Asiatic system , the community is not broken up by the growth of private property and internal differentiation , as happens in classical city states or in feudalism , because the integrity of the community is maintained centrally by the State itself . |
| 3 | In this case it is wrong to speak of the wording of the trust as being free ; the point is instead that it is possible to construe a trust in order to validate a disposition , for their existence or non-existence is not attested purely by the use or non-use of certain forms . |
| 4 | Fings are changin' now though , an ? it 's not come about by the kindness o' the employers . |
| 5 | This can result in errors which can be costly if not picked up by the tenant 's solicitor . |
| 6 | Day-to-day decision making should be assigned to a particular person if this is not carried out by the board member(s) who have overall responsibility for the policy . |
| 7 | Finally , it is no use trying to escape by saying that ancient trade was not carried out by the nationals of ancient states but by non-citizens , so the Megarian decree can not have injured Megarian trade : the generalization about ancient trade should be corrected to read ‘ ancient Athenian trade ’ , which is what nearly all our information is about . |
| 8 | Barbara Lohman of the Points of Light Foundation ( a non-profit organisation set up at the instigation of the White House ) says that today 's volunteers are ‘ not turned on by the martyrdom thing . ’ |
| 9 | The pattern of credit use , by consumers as a whole and by each individual consumer , is not decided simply by the inclination of consumers . |
| 10 | In group F were to be found young children ( average age about 10 ) who sat , when they were not moved off by the police , on the wall in the front of the terrace , overlooking the dry moat . |
| 11 | This practice was not adopted enthusiastically by the LGB , partly due to fears that its cheapness would encourage Guardians to send children to unsuitable homes — fears which were justified by some unfortunate and tragic incidents of maltreatment and exploitation of child labour . |
| 12 | For Bedfordshire , Hickson and Jacques agreed to discuss a variety of difficulties with Baines but the rural areas scheme was not adopted formally by the county council until mid-June 1940 — the last LEA to approve the scheme . |
| 13 | The time taken for them to enter the dark box is noted , and if they have not done so by the end of a fixed time , say one minute , the experiment is terminated . |
| 14 | All violations are only reported ( not acted on by the system ) , but they must be resolved before the design can be " sealed " . |
| 15 | Their rivalries were not washed away by the flows of commerce and finance . |
| 16 | Although parachutes were not used again by the SAS in North Africa , training in their use continued right up to the end of the campaign . |
| 17 | Now assume a finite horizon and no state variable , this gives an Euler equation The solution to ( 6 ) is not characterized solely by the Euler conditions , but also requires a transversality condition |
| 18 | Even if the loan is not called in by the investors , there are likely to be other implications . |
| 19 | This power can be exercised only in cases where the application is not called in by the secretary of state himself . |
| 20 | From this , we conclude that residues 1-193 of c-Jun are not recognised effectively by the DNA-PK even when tethered to DNA . |
| 21 | Yet , referring to section 6(c) of the Act , the Court of Appeal held that , although not bound directly by the injunctions , the newspapers could be in contempt if , in publishing material derived from Peter Wright 's manuscript , they intended to interfere with the administration of justice . |
| 22 | It was assumed by most American policy-makers that the Soviet Union possessed the forces to fulfil a rapid occupation of Manchuria and Korea but this was not borne out by the course of events . |
| 23 | After the revolution , Andrei 's starlet wife loyally tried to defend her husband by portraying him as an opponent of the Comrade and the victim of persecution , but this unoriginal line of defence is not borne out by the facts , except insofar as all the members of the ruling group lived precariously . |
| 24 | This , as we have seen , is simply not borne out by the facts . |
| 25 | Unfortunately the predictions of this very simple hypothesis were not borne out by the facts of subsequent experience . |
| 26 | Mr Lamont claimed , in an optimistic message to the nation , that the ‘ self-denigrating myths ’ of Britain 's decline as an industrial nation were not borne out by the truth . |
| 27 | ( 3 ) In this Act references to the rules of a self-regulating organisation are references to the rules ( whether or not laid down by the organisation itself ) which the organisation has power to enforce in relation to the carrying on of the business in question or which relate to the admission and expulsion of members of the organisation or otherwise to its constitution . |
| 28 | The phase of Methodist growth which began in the 1790s was not marked simply by the addition of numbers . |
| 29 | Briefly , this is to consider that the connections and orders of various sets of events are not exhausted either by the categories of causality or of randomness ( or by both together ) . |
| 30 | The grass was lucky if it grew , was shone upon and rained upon , and was not burned , and was not pulled up by the roots , or poisoned , or buried when the ground was turned over , and some bits just happened to be on a line that humans wanted to walk on , and so got trampled , broken , pressed flat , with no malice ; just effect . |