Example sentences of "was not [adv] [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This did not evoke much response from the audience , because The Times was not widely read by university students . |
| 3 | Ruth Elliott as Catherine , Dr Austin Sloper 's daughter , was not easily fooled by suitor Morris Townsend , played by Gerard McMullan , whose presentation was virtually perfect . |
| 4 | The night sky , brilliant with stars , was not yet touched by dawn , although a bright half-moon was low in the eastern sky . |
| 5 | Opposition to the test drilling was not simply informed by fear , or obstinate blocking of any development in the countryside . |
| 6 | He said , The area was not officially controlled by radar . |
| 7 | The law does , however , exempt those who had a " valid , existing right " to the coal , although this was not clearly defined by Congress . |
| 8 | Denudation chronology also produced a number of debates which centred not only on the existence of surfaces of a particular number , which was not readily resolved by trend surface analysis , but also on the mode of development of planation surfaces and the significance of earth movement in influencing the denudation chronology . |
| 9 | We were unable to discover a donor whose buccal epithelial cells gave reproducible and unambiguous adherence and non-adherence with the appropriate control strains ; buccal cells which bound adhesive E coli strains also tended to have a resident salivary flora which was not readily removed by washing . |
| 10 | None were clinically suspected of having HIV disease , although this was not formally excluded by testing . |
| 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 . |