Example sentences of "[vb past] not [vb infin] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Civil War did not pass Newbald by , as the Monkton family of South Newbald were Royalists , and the parish registers of 1643/45 recorded 30 soldiers being buried in the churchyard . |
| 2 | When the ancestors of whales reinvaded the sea , they did not acquire fins by hybridizing with fish . |
| 3 | Motorola did not return calls by press time . |
| 4 | Motorola did not return calls by press time . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , to ensure that the Germans did not rush reinforcements by rail to the threatened area , General Alexei Alexeievich Brusilov , commanding the South West Front , was ordered to make menacing probes in his area . |
| 6 | Workers in other public enterprises were also prevented from striking although this did not stop strikes by postal and railway workers . |
| 7 | He did not deserve death by heavy metal poisoning . |
| 8 | If the Romanists did not destroy Ulster by forcing its people into a united papist Ireland , then God surely would as a punishment for departing from his standards . |
| 9 | The contradictions of the model help explain why the transition from Francoism to democracy did not take place by a process of radical ‘ rupture ’ , but through a more consensual evolution in which elements of the regime 's own institutions and key political figures played a central role . |
| 10 | The coincidence of the bronzewings ' appearance and Gould 's arrival did not escape comment by the local Aborigines , who had , like Natty and Jemmy , attached themselves to the strange English bird-man . |
| 11 | By definition , such agreements did not require approval by the legislature and ‘ In the year 1930 the United States made 25 treaties and only 9 executive agreements ; in 1971 , 214 executive agreements and only 17 treaties . |
| 12 | The interaction did not approach significance by either subjects or materials . |
| 13 | And he did not promise government by principle ; a politician to the core , Mr Clinton prefers to work by consensus and compromise . |
| 14 | 266 which did not merit preservation by the fund have been demolished , hut in most cases without controversy . |
| 15 | " Policemen , " once wrote the author Michael Gilbert , whose police procedurals you would do well to read as well as his other crime stories , " did not catch murderers by taking thought . |
| 16 | Dean Acheson , US Secretary of State , did not help matters by including , in a wide-ranging speech on US foreign policy at West Point , the cutting words : |
| 17 | But his gaggings and moans did n't slow Godolphin by a beat . |
| 18 | I Did n't Mean It by Leon Rosselson(Fuse) |
| 19 | One did n't measure Bolan by his doggerel , but by his pucker . |
| 20 | The other children on the ward did n't get parcels by post . |