Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] by [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is undoubtedly true that Hansard and particularly records of Committee debates are not widely held by libraries outside London and that the lack of satisfactory indexing of Committee stages makes it difficult to trace the passage of a clause after it is redrafted or renumbered . |
| 2 | The eastern extremity of the spit is not greatly affected by waves from the south-west , but comes under the influence of north-east winds blowing down the Solent . |
| 3 | Simulation of geographical systems is not necessarily motivated by considerations of cost or avoidance of hazard , but more by the desire to experiment on systems that are either too slow-acting relative to the human life-span or which present ethical problems to the would-be experimenter . |
| 4 | Erm , nor I think are there any proposals to change the grading or pay honorarium to P As to reflect there work on these files , er , I 'm not sure whether the assumption that this would n't be taken into account by the W R is sound , because I think one of the principles that I recall was that he were meant to ensure that that each of these job evaluation panels had somebody from each office so that an account could be taken of the different practices , I mean I 'm sure that , I 'm sure that each of the three offices in the er deal with things in a different way , so that er what gets done by one person here is not necessarily done by people in Coventry and York , and that in fa in London , and that also holds good in the other way , I think . |
| 5 | A " class " for this purpose is not necessarily identified by reference to the category of shares which members hold . |
| 6 | Thus , in social science much research activity is directed at simply describing how things work , how conversations are organised , how slaughtermen do their work , how managers manage , what police-officers do on the beat , and so on ; activities which are not especially motivated by explanation as the point of inquiry . |
| 7 | As an infection carried on the air and in milk , diphtheria was not much affected by changes in living standards . |
| 8 | Saving , he maintained , depends mainly on the level of national income and is not much affected by changes in interest rates . |
| 9 | However , most normal materials are not much affected by considerations of dynamic and static loading . |
| 10 | Earth not only grew by aggregation from a cloud of particles , but by collisions with other cosmic matter . |
| 11 | Howard was not only thanked by Parliament for his humanity and zeal ; he even had copies of the Act printed at his own expense and distributed to all gaol keepers . |
| 12 | I am afraid that the evidence at the moment is that the game is not sufficiently supported by members of the armed forces . |
| 13 | But unfortunately there are few descriptive accounts of people 's efforts to reduce the likelihood that an event will occur , perhaps because effective responses are self-evident , or because they are not easily assessed by investigators in that successful action will have removed the difficulty . |
| 14 | In making the choice , the selection conference in the case of the Labour Party , and the constituency executive in the case of the Conservative Party , are not easily moved by pressure from outside and even the leaders of the parties have found it hard to get close friends and political associates nominated . |
| 15 | The interests of birds are patently not best served by proximity to military manoeuvres and firing , however much exclusive use of the quiet times is relished by those who study them . |
| 16 | Since the negative passive construction with the to infinitive would imply that the non-occurrence of the infinitive event was being inferred and asserted from the absence of perception , it is not normally used by speakers of English . |
| 17 | Nightmares are not normally experienced by adults in good health , though we may all experience one occasionally . |
| 18 | Explain fully how you would plan a study of the use of leisure recreational reading ( i.e. not directly required by courses of study ) among students of a college of higher education . |
| 19 | While agricultural production and expenditures are not always contained by regulations of this nature , attempts were made to stabilise agricultural expenditure by introducing automatic price cuts , once thresholds upon production were reached . |
| 20 | The fractured hip so characteristic in frail old women is not infrequently caused by falls at home and these are often occasioned by trivial and remediable household problems — the frayed stair carpet , the trailing flex and so on . |
| 21 | In the same year the town of Southampton , not infrequently threatened by attack from the sea , appointed Thomas Tredington , said to be ‘ skilled with guns and artillery ’ , to take charge of the municipal armoury . |
| 22 | To demonstrate a sensitive period of the type he was proposing , it would be necessary to show that adults who had left a kibbutz at the age of six were not sexually attracted by members of the opposite sex whom they had been reared with while still in the kibbutz . |
| 23 | Bamford remarks that such talents were " not often possessed by men of his condition in society " at that time and that he stood " far above his rustic acquaintance in the village " . |
| 24 | This is not often realized by people outside the industry , who have adversely criticized the discharge of contaminating liquors on the assumption that wasteful methods have been employed . |
| 25 | I do not now intend by beauty of shapes what most people would expect , such as that of living creatures or pictures , but … straight lines and curves and the surfaces of solid forms produced out of these by lathes and rulers and squares … |
| 26 | In particular , I am interpreting it to imply that we are not simply governed by considerations of immediate personal advantage . |
| 27 | In NME , which usually covered the band 's activities in extreme detail , Charman was not even mentioned by name in the tiny news item informing readers of the band 's new drummer . |
| 28 | Soils which are water soluble are so often mixed with water insoluble soils that they are not readily dissolved by water on its own . |
| 29 | There are no garish signboards promising services and supplies , no welcoming notices and it is not readily located by strangers without a map . |
| 30 | We can carry protection in the country at an early general election if the position is not seriously compromised by coalition with |