Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] by [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was sure that a bishop was not stopped by his bishoping from going on with some scholarly work . |
| 2 | ‘ Either by reason of excessive zeal to do well in your post or to assist yourself , colleagues or others , you used your employers ’ money in a manner which gained an advantage not received by your employer , ’ said the judge . |
| 3 | Although it has changed its name to the Cirque Invisible with most of its material new , its format remains much the same as before , created by the husband and wife team of Jean Baptiste Thierree and Victoria Chaplin ( daughter of Oonagh ) but not joined by their lithe acrobat son , James Spencer Thierree . |
| 4 | I understand there was some kind of rift and Mr Swinton is not recognized by his brothers , the eldest of whom has now assumed the baronetcy . |
| 5 | Firstly , homosexual conduct , although no longer subjected to criminal penalties , except when it occurred in clearly defined public circumstances , would continue to be viewed as morally reprehensible ; and secondly , the move did not imply a relaxation of control over homosexual behaviour or was not intended by its main supporters to imply such a relaxation of control . |
| 6 | It is vitally important that the integrity of solicitors is not jeopardised by their drive for new markets to compensate for the possible loss of conveyancing . ’ |
| 7 | Pollution control work is not regarded by its practitioners as a scientific enterprise in which a dispassionate discretion is informed primarily by technical concerns . |
| 8 | One day he reported that the defence had claimed that partisan warfare was contrary to the Hague Convention , that the Germans therefore had every right to take reprisals against the partisans , and that any excesses on their part were explained if not justified by their horror of what the partisans did . |
| 9 | The Formalist principle whereby ‘ the forms of art are explainable by the laws of art ; they are not justified by their realism ’ ( Shklovsky 1965b : 57 ) is manifest in almost every aspect of Sterne 's novel and does not have to be inferred from it by analysis ( as perhaps it does in Gogol 's Overcoat ) . |
| 10 | While the fears of some that deals had been done are not justified by our data , in at least one school senior staff claim to have received a Minor Project grant as a retrospective reward . |
| 11 | For example , in an important case where a murderer claimed an inheritance , having been named in the will of his victim , judges invoked the moral opinion that someone ought not to profit by their crime ( 23 ) . |
| 12 | In both countries the democrats put the failed generals in jail — disgraced , but not forgotten by their fellow-officers . |
| 13 | It 's to be hoped you 've not come by your father 's headstrong ways , boy . ’ |
| 14 | And the journey to the Hulton farm was not enlivened by my memories of those five other sows . |
| 15 | But if we extend the above argument , drawn from the motivation of ‘ Old Fighters ’ of the Party to the wider electorate , we would have to conclude that here — probably to an even greater extent — Hitler 's image was not dominated by his obsession with the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 16 | For what son is not disciplined by his father ? |
| 17 | When I was taught chemistry at Regent 's Street Polytechnic in the later 1930s , we 16-year-olds were treated as adults , not incompetents , and were expected to achieve titrations accurate to 1 per cent or less from the moment we began quantitative analysis : for were we not addressed by our splendid lecturers as ‘ Mr ’ ? |
| 18 | But a head is not required to carry traits not presupposed by its dependants , so when the head of a construction exactly duplicates the presupposed traits of a dependent selector ( i.e. when the meaning of the head is fully predictable from the dependant ) , the result is perfectly normal : a pregnant female ( animal ) . |
| 19 | ‘ … the extent of the establishment is but barely sufficient for the exigencies of the County , and it can not be contended that it is on too large or extravagant a scale ; the number of patients constantly on the books of the Infirmary ; the high reputation which it has justly acquired under the excellent management of the medical and other officers belonging to it ; the strict economy which to the general satisfaction of the Governors has been observed in the ordinary expenditure of the House … call forcibly upon the County at large to hold out a protecting hand to save it from ruin which appears inevitably to have waited , if not averted by our timely interference . ’ |
| 20 | Therefore , students generally only really looked to housing benefit to top up their accommodation needs and only then if they were in property not owned by their college . |
| 21 | If they are not claimed by their owners they are kept for seven days after which if they can not be sold they can be destroyed . |
| 22 | The move aims to end a long-standing abuse which was not resolved by its predecessor , the Accounting Standards Committee . |
| 23 | Information was obtained about 1,200 people approaching local authority departments with financial needs not met by their weekly benefits , and about 1,084 people approaching Citizens ' Advice Bureaux ( CABs ) . |
| 24 | Even heat if those radiators which had not been stolen had not suffered by their neglect . |
| 25 | Unfortunately this is not matched by her academic ability . |
| 26 | The volume of the evidence is , unfortunately , not matched by our understanding of the organisation of production and dispersal . |
| 27 | It was a severe test for him , for it is a widely held view that his talents as a party manager are not matched by his capabilities as a potential Prime Minister . |
| 28 | His strength is not matched by his intelligence , however , and humans wishing to avenge their broken or bruised fingers will instruct the fenoderee to fetch water with a sieve , or to round up a hare , using a flock of sheep . |
| 29 | Whatever scientific ambition he may have had was not matched by his ability . |
| 30 | But she was aware that perhaps she underestimated his acceptability to the parochial clergy , who were not threatened by his gentleness . |