Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it came to the actual recording , there was the sound of the pistol shot — followed not by the thump but by Ken wailing as only Kenneth Williams could wail . |
| 2 | That is , a revolution from above , a revolution guided not by the ambition of the bulk of the population , but by the interests of the landed aristocracy and the military . |
| 3 | Once these points were fixed , the law of trusts advanced not by the chance observance of a testator 's intention , but by the logical extension of first principles . |
| 4 | There might also be quite a number of very much smaller black holes scattered around the universe , formed not by the collapse of stars but by the collapse of highly compressed regions in the hot , dense medium that is believed to have existed shortly after the big bang in which the universe originated . |
| 5 | When a proton and deuterium fuse they also give helium-3 , accompanied not by a neutron this time but by radiant energy , a gamma ray . |
| 6 | It would be a long time before all of this changed very much — and certainly it had not by the time of the Crowther Report in 1959 ( see Chapter 8 ) . |