Example sentences of "not be [adv] [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Kenya 's development has probably not been overly constrained by debt per se , though the strings tied to the loans have limited policy choice .
2 It would be surprising if less prosperous sections of the community had not been equally attacked by disease at this time , and casualties of that extent would certainly have set back any recovery of the population .
3 The science of art , claims Kemp , has not been adequately appreciated by art historians and to begin to rectify the situation he strives to demonstrate that ‘ there were special kinds of affinity between the central intellectual and observational concerns in the visual arts and the sciences , in European history between the Renaissance and the nineteenth century ( p. 1 ) .
4 Though participants have said that they find these quizzes enjoyable , they have not been well supported by comparison with the more usual lectures and no further quiz is planned for the moment , though I shall try to keep a few questions in hand in case a speaker is delayed or fails to arrive for some reason .
5 Fourth , though the concept of a legal right to decent housing has not been fully accepted by government , local authorities are legally required to provide some type of shelter for most of the homeless .
6 If only all those years ago she had not been so strapped by convention .
7 If Cassie had not been so consumed by rage , she would have laughed at this last and patently childish remark .
8 It also has the added difficulty that it can not be effectively served by rail .
9 The unique militancy of Russia 's working class , then , can not be adequately explained by reference to the deprivation among workers , to the prominence among them of rural migrants , or to the leadership provided by the Bolshevik party .
10 The removal of technical barriers may not be easily achieved by regulation ; changes of attitude will be needed to recognise the freedom of investors to receive the best return on their capital .
11 They argue that Y6N17 could not be easily produced by volcanism , and was probably formed by the same impact event as the Haiti glasses .
12 Corporatism tends to " fit " the facts best with respect to the major functional economic groupings of capital and labour ; with respect to issues of economic policy ( especially in so far as they concern incomes ) in periods of boom when labour can not be easily disciplined by market forces ; and at the level of the central state .
13 The dilemma of third party creditors to an international organisation can not be simply resolved by recourse to the domestic analogy of corporation law .
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