Example sentences of "[verb] not by [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , powers are devolved not by reference to a particular geographical area , but by reference to a particular function or service , such as transport or telecommunications . |
| 2 | Even so , the grip of liberal ideas upon the law of contract is weakening , because , as I have tried to show , the legal doctrine is ultimately shaped not by fidelity to liberal precepts but by a particular scheme of distributive justice and a vision of the legitimate market order . |
| 3 | However , this argument was rejected in the House of Lords and Lord Wilberforce ( at p372 ) said that to : … suppose that the assignments were made not by way of sale but by way of security would be to impose upon the parties a form of transaction totally different from that which they had selectednamely , one of saleand of which there was no evidence whatsoever that either of them desired … |
| 4 | The females , however , have their nipples enclosed not by flaps of skin but within a deep pouch . |
| 5 | The intellectual game was being played not by Eleanor in the years 1169–73 but by Andrew the Chaplain in the late 11805 . |
| 6 | Ma was an expert knitter , a knitter by feel not by sight of pattern , a measurer by holding up , by arm-length , not by inches and tapes . |
| 7 | They were run not by professionals in the CIA , but by amateurs on the NSC staff . |
| 8 | This is not a Doppler shift — it is caused not by movement of distant galaxies through space , but by the expansion of spacetime . |
| 9 | The Convention is confined to international financial leasing , that is , to leasing which in economic terms is equivalent to a sale or purchase-money loan , the equipment being leased to a single lessee at whose request it was bought and the rentals being fixed not by reference to the use-value of the equipment as such but at a level which , taking into account cash-flows , tax-reliefs , and the like , will guarantee to the lessor the reim-bursement of his capital costs and desired return on capital . |
| 10 | According to a report in NIN ( 9 November 1986 ) , the memorandum claimed that the prewar Comintern was hostile to Serbia , that the Serbian delegates to the second session of the Anti-fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia in 1943 ( at which major decisions were taken about the postwar composition of Yugoslavia ) were elected not by organizations within Serbia but by Serbian personnel who were in the partisan armies in Bosnia and Herzegovina at that time , and that postwar Yugoslavia was largely under the control of Tito , a Croat , and Kardelj , a Slovene . |
| 11 | It is evident from this quotation that the grammarians were mainly motivated not by considerations of linguistic naturalness or logic ( for example , the clash of singular and plural implicit in the use of they ; and as Bodine points out , why in any case is number concord more important than gender concord ? ) but quite explicitly by sexism . |
| 12 | In this way share prices are determined not by reference to estimations of fundamental value , but by a series of guesses about the behaviour of other market participants ; they result from ‘ [ s ] peculations on the speculations of other speculators who are doing the same thing ’ . |
| 13 | Etruria Hall still stands , in a landscape of demonic ugliness , backed not by tiers of green woods but by colliery tips higher than itself , and in front , not an ornamental sheet of water but a filthy ‘ flash ’ , dark with coal-dust , arising from subsidence due to coal-mining below . |