Example sentences of "not by the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , it fits very well with the fact that , while obviously having a relation of some sort with the noun , these adjectives are questioned not by the interrogative word usual for attributive adjectives , but by a word which typically is used to question adverbs . |
| 2 | When bFGF given subcutoneously ( but not by the intragastric route ) was combined with sucralfate , the reduction in gastric lesions was more pronounced than that achieved with sucralfate or bFGF alone ( Table I ) . |
| 3 | If schools were obliged to take in this maximum number , they might opt out , since as a grant-maintained school their numbers would be fixed not by the 1979 limit , but by the article of government of that particular school . |
| 4 | Given that the member will be sent their membership card , it would seem a small step away to actually send them a letter addressed to them personally welcoming them to the union and advise them at the very least on the basic facilities and benefits , plus other important information , and signed by the Regional Secretary , if not by the General Secretary . |
| 5 | Once you were Wigg 's enemy — and this was a judgement reached by him and not by the other person — there was no pursuit and no hostility that he would abandon ; but I remained an affectionate friend because of the other side of his character , which would not even be suspected by those with whom he was in controversy . |
| 6 | Macro focusing is generally done , not by the normal focus ring but by the zoom lever , and the adjustment needs to be done carefully to obtain maximum sharpness . |
| 7 | The fact that the men on the Area Boards were appointed directly by the Minister ( and not by the Central Authority — though the Organising Committee and later the Central Authority were consulted ) meant that the Boards were something rather more than subsidiaries of the larger entity . |
| 8 | What does seem important is that discussions on surrogacy , as on other aspects of reproductive biology , should be put on a more rational basis , and that codes of practice should be regulated by professional bodies , and not by the criminal law . |
| 9 | The genes , as we shall see , are more like a recipe than like a blueprint ; and a recipe , moreover , that is obeyed not by the developing embryo as a whole , but by each cell or each local cluster of dividing cells . |
| 10 | And it was as she hesitated , thinking of Liam , touched as so often , and usually at the wrong moment , by the silence and sadness of him which so troubled her , wondering if a sugar stick would lighten it , that she felt herself suddenly surrounded not by the usual ebb and flow of the market day crowd but by something much more purposeful . |
| 11 | Once you 've chopped off the top ten , there are mass mi middle , medium sized P L C's , the nine million to fifty million turnover er company and they 're looked after by some by major firms , some more often than not by the second tier firms , so we can see very much and we can penetrate those er that middle market situation , then these are the companies in the future that will er will probably be the big P L C's and also these it will be easier to get into these organisations er with the services that we have to look through to offer . |
| 12 | He knocked once on the door , and it was instantly opened , not by the black man whom he had quite been expecting , but by Pauline Simonescu herself . |
| 13 | Now imagine the same boundary maintained under the same forces and displacements not by the real continuum but by an arbitrary network of " finite elements ' in each of which we consider only the forces and displacements at their junctions , or " nodes ' . |
| 14 | The Frenchman , who protested his innocence when he failed a drug test after winning the Tour of Wallonia in 1987 , is one of a number of leading riders to have failed a test , including Pedro Delgado , the Spaniard who was allowed to complete and win the Tour de France last year after a test revealed a substance banned by the International Olympic Committee but not by the International Cycling Union . |
| 15 | In eleven of Cnut 's grants the Latin introduction to the boundaries is followed not by the first set of bounds but by an introduction in Anglo-Saxon . |
| 16 | A gradual diminution in mental faculties which is noticed by friends and relatives but not by the affected person is the first change . |
| 17 | These situations may be characterised not by the actual risk felt in the situation but by the potential for risky situations to occur at the junction . |
| 18 | Indeed , it may be true that most of the great floodplains of the world have been formed by aggradation provoked by the Post-glacial rise in sea level and not by the erosional method outlined in the discussion of the Davisian cycle ( Chapter 2 ) . |
| 19 | If such plants are kept under artificial light these strange movements continue , for they are triggered not by the fading light , but by the plant 's biological clock . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's not by the same artist , is it ? ’ |
| 21 | If it is true that public goods and services are oversupplied when benefits are concentrated and costs ( revenues ) dispersed , should they not by the same argument be undersupplied when benefits are dispersed but costs concentrated , or when both costs and benefits are dispersed ( Goodin 1982 ) ? |
| 22 | The concentrations of freon eleven and freon twelve dissolved in surface waters have both increased dramatically since nineteen fifty but not by the same amount and so measuring their ratio in a sea water sample will tell us how old the water is . |
| 23 | Every lawyer in the team is a supervisor for another lawyer and is in turn supervised , although not by the same lawyer . |
| 24 | She asks why women can not by the same token ‘ wrench back some wordpower ’ . |
| 25 | More trouble arose over the decision by Dick to submit his students to examination , not by the Royal College , but by the Highland and Agricultural Society . |
| 26 | They would wait until complete darkness , necessarily , longer indeed , and then ride behind Johnstone guides who knew the terrain intimately , not by the main riverside road , which might well be guarded , or at least watched , but by little-used tracks and byways , with Johnstone scouts out ahead , under Lochwood . |
| 27 | By their fruits we shall know the peacemakers , not by the seraphic look on their faces . |
| 28 | He was replaced , not by the senior figure of Denis Healey , who was chained to his oar at the Treasury in the aftermath of the IMF cuts , but by the youthful and little-known figure of David Owen , Crosland 's junior minister at the Foreign Office . |
| 29 | They are also responsible for the fact that the boundaries were drawn up , not by the independent boundary commission , but by the new European parliamentary constituencies committee . |
| 30 | If these figures are right that we 've been given by the department and I 'm not saying them whether they 're right or whether they 're wrong but well we have to r rely on what we 're getting this is why Mr is sending this lot to the Chief Executive for him to do some work I think it 's very important that it is done independently , not by the independent sector but by done independently . |