Example sentences of "[adv] not by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long before the actual birth of PEE in August 1942 , the concept of the target finding/marking force was being well received by the hard-pressed bomber crews but , oddly enough not by the staff at Bomber Command . |
| 2 | But what has saddened me especially was the repeated rumour which I and some friends heard in the 1950s and early 1960s : that Leslie 's plane had been brought down not by the storms nor by enemy action , but by human error on our own side . |
| 3 | We ended up not by the sea . |
| 4 | It was a spirit summed up not by the hoards of identically painted Clios or the new 16-valve Chamade ( both in the UK next spring ) but by Laguna , the electric-blue and polished-silver roadster show car . |
| 5 | It was not easy to think of a precedent , and one could be forgiven for concluding that the notorious obscurity of the poem came about not by the author 's design but accidentally , because the work was the product not of one mind but of two . |
| 6 | Meaning is something born primarily not by the parts but by the whole theory , since the whole theory is the only thing that has its own observational consequences . |
| 7 | A provincial rendition of the Iver , Bucks. , version — and almost certainly not by the Christmas brothers — was erected at Rodney Stoke , Somerset , in 1650 to commemorate George Rodney . |