Example sentences of "not [be] [vb pp] [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may also be losses in terms of the hopes , expectations and images of parenthood which have not been borne out by experience . |
| 2 | The numbers 1,2,3,5 , and 7 have not been made up by multiplying other numbers together . |
| 3 | Had he not been turned down by a local industrial company , things might have been different . |
| 4 | The mechanisms for registering and resolving a conflict via the United Nations , which would apply in this situation , had not been gone through by the general . |
| 5 | Mr Bergg said he did not want to see law breaking but he believed home owners should use the system to insist on fair valuations which had not been rushed through by estate agents . |
| 6 | The connections between theories of unconscious subjectivity and feminist politics , which , Lipschitz suggests , might break the feminist therapeutic impasse , have not been spelled out by feminist therapists , or by feminist psychologists more generally . |
| 7 | In general , though , the feedback to theory from many social enquiries has been almost incidental , since much research actually concerned with collecting first-hand information has been orientated to solving practical social problems , and much theoretical work has not been backed up by actual field investigations . |
| 8 | A book about the children of the war , displaced children , children who had not been brought up by their natural parents or in their home countries . |
| 9 | Almost identical , if you had not been brought up by Victorine to know that one was good and the other bad : both had wide shop windows displaying shelves of apple tarts , turnovers , puffs ; striped awnings above ; tiled steps . |
| 10 | Yet this state of affairs has surely not been brought about by Wigner 's intervention . |
| 11 | Faced with losses of £1,500,000 a week , chairman Nick Schele said the company would have closed by now if it had not been taken over by Ford . |
| 12 | The service also proved a modest success , and Branson began exploring the possibility of flying to Dublin , and to Miami , on a route which had not been taken up by a British carrier since the collapse of Laker . |
| 13 | But those who composed the Brezhnev doctrine have not been taken in by this line of thinking , at least not to date . |
| 14 | Anyone considering a purchase from this company should make sure they get cast-iron guarantees concerning specification and after sales support or , like me and many others to my knowledge , they will wish that they had not been taken in by misleading advertising and had paid a little more money to an established British company . |
| 15 | These achievements have not been wiped out by the past year . |
| 16 | The protocol of chain-pulling in multiple-occupancy urinals has not been thought through by the Works and Buildings Department . |
| 17 | By the 1920s the Swiss jokingly complained that they needed a passport to enter some parts of their country because British skiers had taken them over , and by 1921 there were few Alpine slopes , skiable with contemporary equipment , which had not been tried out by enthusiasts . |
| 18 | The great butlers are great by virtue of their ability to inhabit their professional role and inhabit it to the utmost ; they will not be shaken out by external events , however surprising , alarming or vexing . |
| 19 | The impact of the visual world , which can not be kept out by undemocratic and dogmatic regimes , will have a tremendous effect on many communities . |
| 20 | The drain should not be covered over by backfilling the trench until the test has been completed . |
| 21 | If he learns from this episode that he must be more independent in his judgment and not be swept along by others , there need be no long-lasting harm . |
| 22 | Values such as fairness , honesty , and integrity are values worth pursuing in themselves , and should not be shrugged off by reverting to some contervailing argument such as costs . |
| 23 | He argues that the small firms sector is particularly well situated to benefit from the wider enterprise opportunities offered by the single market and should not be tied down by EC red tape . |
| 24 | Copy out these six numbers and find the next six that can not be made up by multiplication . |
| 25 | Moving upwards , how could she not be dragged down by the truth about Daisy ? |
| 26 | The building of the Berlin Wall seemed to show that Germany 's division could not be broken down by the forceful anti-communist line which he favoured . |
| 27 | Fibre is a specialized form of complex carbohydrate , which can not be broken down by the normal human digestive system . |
| 28 | Fibre is the indigestible component of our diet , almost always derived from vegetable produce , and it is those components of the diet that can not be broken down by the digestive system which in turn pass into the large bowel and contribute to the bulk of faecal waste matter . |
| 29 | Fibre by definition can not be broken down by our digestive systems , but it can be broken down by normal healthy bacteria in our large bowel . |
| 30 | A waste disposer can , of course , be fitted into a single main sink , but do make sure your building or house has the sort of drainage system that will not be fouled up by liquid refuse in bulk . |