Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] by [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark sheets not received by these dates may mean that issue of certificates , diplomas and records of achievement to students is delayed . |
| 2 | Strategic decisions emerge from those on-going processes and are not formulated by corporate masterplans or mastermatrices . |
| 3 | We tested for a mating preference for large crests by comparing the attractiveness of models with short crests to the same models with crest feathers lengthened ( Fig. 1 ) , using three models of each sex to ensure that responses were not biased by unique characteristics of any one specimen . |
| 4 | The residual , that part of the earnings gap not explained by personal attributes , is conventionally taken as an indicator of discrimination . |
| 5 | Increasing age , however , appeared protective in AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis ( r=0.6 ; p<0.05 ) : this is not explained by disproportionate degrees of immunosuppression , nor by opportunistic infections . |
| 6 | The use of a choke chain for training purposes is not favoured by all trainers , but provided that it is fitted correctly then it should not injure the puppy , and can prove useful in ensuring that it learns to walk properly on the leash . |
| 7 | Barrier methods such as condoms are not favoured by Turkish men , and campaigns to encourage men to have vasectomies have proved a dismal failure . |
| 8 | What we can see , though , is that critical enterprises or cultural reproductions are not undertaken by disinterested participants removed from the concerns of their own historic moment . |
| 9 | One of his first undertakings was to transfer the Tropical African Services Course from the Imperial Institute in South Kensington , ‘ which is not frequented by other students of a kind to make good Administrative officers ’ , to Oxford and Cambridge , where ‘ it would , I am sure , spread interest in our services among other undergraduates of the type we want ’ ; and the great triumph of his career as a bureaucrat was to persuade the Warren Fisher committee , set up in 1927 to examine methods of recruitment into the Colonial Service , that it was unnecessary to look further afield for men ‘ who possess the qualities of mind , character and personality which make for success in the leadership of native … races ’ . |
| 10 | Finally , Memphis is not frequented by most members of the American museum community . |
| 11 | This is based on a closely studied population of deer on the Scottish island of which is not inhabited by human beings , but is by deer , and the easiest way to see it is , is at the bottom here . |
| 12 | The pressure is not alleviated by further statements which are over-dogmatic without consideration of their effects : ‘ We are convinced , and our experience supports us , that the auditory mode can be the mode of information transmission for hearing-impaired children ’ ( 1981 : 147 ) . |
| 13 | Computers with dual disk drives and twin tape cassette machines are not caught by these provisions because they are not " specifically designed or adapted to circumvent copy-protection " . |
| 14 | Increased productivity — you 're not surrounded by seductive frills and furbelows . |
| 15 | It encourages pupils to approach them from angles not considered by other subjects or forms of study in the curriculum . |
| 16 | ‘ Vulnerable people should be aware that there are some laboratories and practitioners who rely on controversial and unproven procedures … which are not considered by independent observers either to be reliable or to have a scientific basis . ’ |
| 17 | The acquisition of a car for the private and business use of a director was not considered by both members of the Court of Appeal ( Neill and Dillon LJJ ) to be an integral part of the company 's business . |
| 18 | It may be surprising , but when a cat brings a live mouse to her kittens — perhaps for them to first play with and then kill , or perhaps so that she can kill it while they watch — this is not considered by some experts to be a form of teaching . |
| 19 | It is important to be sure that your results are not distorted by such factors . |
| 20 | Similarly , most villages today do not qualify by these standards — most are suburban or retirement centres , not more than half a dozen practise communal agriculture , and most do not even have working farms in them . |
| 21 | Where identified needs are not met by existing groups to initiate and organise appropriate training activities . |
| 22 | Spontaneous examples of positive performance such as using specific knowledge , rounding , correcting and so on are generally recorded during oral interaction with pupils and are not revealed by written tests which ask for specific answers to specific questions . |
| 23 | Therefore an expansion of aggregate demand in the domestic economy which is not matched by comparable increases in other economies will result in a deterioration in the balance of payments . |
| 24 | Elections , for example , are not decided by those electors whose support for particular parties is relatively fixed , but by those relatively uncommitted individuals whose attitudes and voting choices may not set until nearer polling day . |
| 25 | But he was not moved by such feelings to sympathize with the rebels and the subversive . |
| 26 | In fact , a great number of royal charters were not written by royal chaplains , but by scribes of the beneficiaries ; and there is grave doubt whether the English monarchs of the tenth and early eleventh centuries employed any professional scribes at all . |
| 27 | Such a distinction is not accepted by all commentators , as we shall show , but where evaluating the intended curriculum is accepted , there are clearly a variety of ways of analysing it . |
| 28 | However , the notion of a " post-Creole continuum " is not accepted by all linguists . |
| 29 | Generally , arrests are not made by such squads for conduct that is deemed less serious than that in which they are mainly interested . |
| 30 | A loan stock holder is not hampered by such restrictions if his loan stock is not paid on the due date . |