Example sentences of "it [be] not [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As er the officer was saying it 's a briefing document prepared before the raid , therefore of course it 's not covered by public interest immunity .
2 If you want to protect your livelihood or protect the environment you 're living in , you 'd do everything possible to make sure it 's not damaged by this way or any other means . ’
3 Thus a member that protests from the outset of institutional action that is not sanctioned by the constitutive treaty should be able to claim that it is not bound by that action .
4 But if it is not bound by such a policy it can induce a large increase in the money supply and prevent the recession , or at least bring it to an end quickly .
5 It is not disputed by any member of the European Community that if that part of the directive were to be implemented everybody would have to pay for the associated benefits .
6 Bernier constantly contrasts Mughal India and seventeenth-century France : the Jumna compares favourably with the Loire , he thinks ; adultery is easier in Paris than it is in Delhi : ‘ in France it only excites merriment , but in this part of the world there are few instances where it is not followed by some dreadful and tragical catastrophe . ’
7 But coachbuilding looks set to increase its share of activity particularly because , unlike accident repair , it is not hindered by geographical limitations , only by lack of skill or ability , and that is not something hindering the Heggie Group judging by its track record .
8 It is not influenced by external factors .
9 It is not selected by any democratic process .
10 When , in the nineteenth century , Chesney Wold finally dies , it is not destroyed by demotic jealousy ; it is simply displaced by the increasing power of the middle class .
11 It is not covered by legal professional privilege .
12 If the type of gig you are offered is so unusual that it is not covered by any of the existing contracts , an MU official will devise one to suit your needs , or add necessary clauses to an existing contract ( for performing on the back of a moving open-back lorry , the contract might require clauses covering additional risks ! ) .
13 It is not biased by any particular physical storage structure that may be used .
14 ‘ If it is not replaced by another source of sand and gravel , various difficulties may result for Aberystwyth , including the possibility of increased costs for the construction industry and house purchasers , ’ said Mr Bown .
15 The static torque/ rotor position characteristic repeats with a wavelength of one rotor tooth pitch , so the rotor only returns to the correct step position if it is not displaced by more than half a rotor tooth pitch .
16 Professor Mark Roberts , speaking from the centre of the critical consensus , declared : ‘ It does n't issue from an understanding of reality which is not to be denied , it is not moulded by some controlling vision of things which is at the same time its raison d'être . ’
17 But even in these cases the success is likely to be shortlived if it is not backed by bilingual contacts and exchanges in the community at large .
18 In other words science is seen by Parsons to be free from social determination as long as it is not penetrated by secondary selectivity or ‘ ideology ’ .
19 In the studies with gastrin and its analogues an often uncontrolled variable has been gastric acid secretion , although the presence of gastric acid is not essential for a colonic response as it is not abolished by total gastrectomy .
20 Although it appears to be grammatically linked to the remainder of the subsection , it is not qualified by much of what appears before it .
21 Is your back garden so secluded that it is not overlooked by any other property and thus provides another unseen point of entry for a burglar ?
22 Grey — it is n't used by any of the armed forces , you see .
23 Although there was a Jacobite rebellion in the summer of 1689 , led by John Graham of Claverhouse , Viscount Dundee , and supported by some of the Highland clans , it was not joined by any of the major regional magnates .
24 This attitude contributed to serious misjudgements in the immediate post-war period because it was not counteracted by radical institutional change as a result of the war .
25 The defendants denied liability and , in particular , that they were liable to pay any part of the additional £10,300 because their agreement to pay it was not supported by any consideration .
26 But the Congress in its present form dates back to Mikhail Gorbachev 's ; it was not elected by general suffrage , but ( on behalf of the whole of what was still the Soviet Union ) partly elected on a local basis and partly nominated by special interest groups .
27 It was not substantiated by any evidence and William Thompson was only fifteen years old in 1695 .
28 Similarly it was not hydrolysed by mucosal homogenates from the small intestine of the rat .
29 What we know about the Ukrainian Division is that it was not retained by 5 Corps in Austria , and that by the end of May it had turned up in Italy .
30 Nevertheless , when Gorbachev made his visit to Japan in April it was not accompanied by any breakthrough over the territorial issue .
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