Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] by the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It is the duty of us all to ensure that an entire cultural group is not tainted by the actions of a criminal minority .
2 Hunger and poverty , the main reasons for their poaching , are not treated by the courts as extenuating circumstances .
3 In this case , the effect is that goods received in the old financial year ( Invoice ) are not recognized by the accounts until the new financial year ( Cash paid ) .
4 If the trustees are found to be the settlor 's nominees the settlor will be the person assessed on the trading or other income ( Dreyfus v IRC ( 1963 ) 41 TC 441 ) although the Inland Revenue will usually find it difficult to establish nomineeship if this was not intended by the parties ( Burman v Hedges and Butler Ltd [ 1979 ] STC 136 ) .
5 ‘ So it emerges from these authorities that the retention of moneys known to have been paid under a mistake at law , although it is a course permitted to an ordinary litigant , is not regarded by the courts as a ‘ high-minded thing ’ to do , but rather as a ‘ shabby thing ’ or a ‘ dirty trick ’ and hence is a course which the court will not allow one of its own officers , such as a trustee in bankruptcy , to take .
6 The Buid do not regard themselves , and are not regarded by the Christians , as belonging to the same social system , and as sharing an underlying set of political values .
7 Where crops were sold both by large estates and small farmers or peasants , the situation was more complex , though in peasant economies , for obvious reasons , the proportion of the crop which came on the world market — i.e. which was not consumed by the producers — from large estates was normally much larger than that which came from the peasant holdings .
8 As for the requirement for the owners , charterers , managers and operators of the vessel and , in the case of a company , the shareholders and directors , to be resident and domiciled in the member state in which the vessel is to be registered , it must be held that such a requirement , which is not justified by the rights and obligations created by the grant of a national flag to a vessel , results in discrimination on grounds of nationality .
9 In the context of the rest of chapter 29 , as already set out , it seems clear to us that the delay or deferment means , at its lowest , wrongful delay or deferment , such as is not justified by the circumstances of the case .
10 The biological assumptions involved in such statements are based on a series of half-truths about the ageing process , extended so that they appear to support explanations about the nature of life and health in old age that are not justified by the facts .
11 The taxpayer was unsuccessful in his appeal that the Commissioners ' conclusion was not justified by the facts before them .
12 If , moreover , ‘ the senses reveal no necessities ’ ( to quote an old tag ) , then our mental grasp of it is not given by the senses .
13 Our designers are not limited by the constraints of standard sized units — all our custom made furniture is manufactured to meet the clients specific requirements .
14 Under the new system of administration resentment and lack of trust became commonplace , a situation which was not alleviated by the measures taken in the light of the May Committee 's recommendations in 1979 to give the Prison Department greater autonomy .
15 Counsel for the defenders submitted essentially that the Lord Ordinary had erred in law in concluding that the declaration in the application form was part of a contract between the pursuers and the Alliance Building Society to which the provisions of the act applied , rather than concluding that the declaration was non-contractual in character and accordingly not caught by the provisions of the act so far as applicable to Scotland .
16 It is important that the systems planning team is not dominated by the technologists , although it will certainly include them .
17 But this school was not considered by the authorities to be a suitable place of safety .
18 Those who hold or have held a professorship in the British Isles are not eligible , and any publications cited or listed in connection with a previous successful candidature for an RSC award will not considered by the assessors .
19 Disorganised French industry was slow to get into gear , and when it did it committed the traditional error — not emulated by the Germans — of having too many models .
20 This planned initiative runs alongside individual action and studies show that this system is not deemed by the teachers to be incompatible with their creative freedom ( Bjerke , 1983 ) .
21 The first approach , which will effectively abandon the shared space principle , is not recommended by the researchers , for it is the application of the shared space approach that they question , not the approach itself :
22 Against the odds , Reagan and his staff were not overwhelmed by the demands of the office ; indeed , they established sufficient mastery over the machinery of government to bring about major changes in the direction of public policy .
23 The anglers were not expected to match that catch rate , as the most effective early season methods were not permitted by the rules , but the winners more than doubled it .
24 But members have realised our world championship standard course was not matched by the facilities inside . "
25 The structure of intelligence reveals itself spontaneously in the way people behave intellectually ; it is not imposed by the assumptions of testers , as the national press would have it .
26 Any theme or emphasis on medium , subject matter or style was brought out by the selectors and was not imposed by the organisers in any way .
27 Hilton 's mystical theology is not conveyed with the passionate poetry that characterises Rolle 's writing , it is not attended by the rigours of the Cloud-author 's sense of that transcendent God who can not be known in any recognisable sense of the word , the visionary experience of Julian of Norwich , or the endearingly unbalanced enthusiasm of Margery Kempe .
28 But England 's recent games against both nations have been full Tests and the squad will include those available England players not selected by the Lions .
29 This is not done by the owners challenging them , or punishing them physically , but simply by making them earn all their privileges .
30 The alliance is cemented by that traditional political religion , forged in the previous century , which sees the natural law as most accessible to true believers , that it is obligatory to enforce its practice by law , and that those holding other views only have rights to put their views into practice when they are not seen by the bishops to do harm to the social fabric .
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