Example sentences of "[adv] not [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Re-negotiation of steps is very commonly required since theoretical assumptions of difficulty are often not mirrored by experience in practice . |
| 2 | The contrary of heuristic ie not proceeding by trial and error . |
| 3 | He gave aid to the tribesmen and aimed primarily not to convert by teaching , ‘ but to live the Christian life , alone among the natives ’ . |
| 4 | Held , allowing the appeal , that although ‘ action ’ in section 69 of the Solicitors Act 1974 was to be construed liberally it could extend only to forms of legal process and did not embrace a statutory demand , the service of which was merely part of the statutorily prescribed procedure for obtaining remedies afforded to creditors by a bankruptcy order and did not of itself initiate legal proceedings ; that a solicitor was therefore not debarred by section 69(1) from serving a statutory demand for payment of his costs before the expiration of one month from the date of delivery of his bill of costs ; and that , accordingly , since the statutory demand and petition were valid , they would be remitted to the district judge for hearing ( post , pp. 1029E–F , G — 1030A , 1031E ) . |
| 5 | The demand fur such a common culture rests either on an altogether over-optimistic belief in the educability of the majority that is certainly not justified by experience or on a willingness to surrender the highest standards of taste and judgement to the incessant demands of mediocrity . |
| 6 | My life is certainly not dominated by sex ; in fact , on the whole I would say that sex is totally overrated . |