Example sentences of "and not by [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also claims that it is desirable to think ‘ intuitively ’ and not by logical steps , but again logic is the exception not the rule in human thought and all the greatest scientific discoveries have been made by the use of informed intuition , Ornstein believes that the right hemisphere is underdeveloped in Western man and the spiritual growth depends on expanding its activities . |
| 2 | This provision did not take into account the substantial number of businesses in the licensed trade which are owned and operated by bodies corporate or incorporate and not by individual persons , with the result that the licence holder was a company official who exercised little or no control over the day-to-day running of the premises , or was the manager of the premises , and whose employment could be terminated at any time , irrespective of the date of expiry of the licence , either by his own volition or by his employer 's . |
| 3 | The argument that if you 've been born a tortoise , it is difficult to become a hare because some official insists , is flawed , though the imposing of fines must be done in a responsible manner and not by self-appointed officials with heavy-handed habits . |
| 4 | This sort of delegation needs to be invited on a considered basis and international consensus and not by 18 Conservatives in Darlington . |
| 5 | This sort of delegation needs to be invited on a considered basis and international consensus and not by 18 Conservatives in Darlington , ’ he said . |
| 6 | This sort of delegation needs to be invited on a considered basis and international consensus and not by 18 Conservatives in Darlington . |
| 7 | How fortunate that dear Ruby was discovered by Hansom and Luckey and not by ignorant persons , such as those dreadful Russians who were discovered feeding mammoth steaks to their dogs . |
| 8 | During the war , Churchill quoted Longfellow to Roosevelt : ’ And not by eastern windows only When daylight comes , comes in the light . |
| 9 | Pressure on land was fairly slack in the south ( most obviously shown by the fact that when holdings were reoccupied they were often taken up by men who already held land , and not by landless men ) , whereas in the east there was no shortage of tenants , and the demand for land was maintained . |
| 10 | In such hard cases , as also in the ones where either of these interests conflicts with the interests of humans , we need to proceed by careful study of all the local factors and not by general principles . |
| 11 | ‘ As species are produced and exterminated by slowly acting causes , and not by miraculous acts of creation ; and as the most important of all causes of organic change is one which is almost independent of altered and perhaps suddenly altered physical conditions , namely , the mutual relation of organism to organism — the improvement of one organism entailing the improvement or the extermination of others ’ . |
| 12 | Thus he has ensured that ‘ Oman is run by Omanis and not by foreign powers ’ . |
| 13 | This they are doing at their own speed through a process of education and development , ensuring that Oman is run by Omanis , and not by foreign powers with distant interests . |
| 14 | Such an effect was hard to reconcile with classical microeconomic theory , which suggests that if agents act optimally then decisions about real variables such as output would be influenced only by other real variables , and not by nominal variables . |
| 15 | Those hospitals which formerly had been the responsibility of Boards of Guardians and later of the local authorities , together with the development of those hospitals which the local authorities brought about , including maternity hospitals , passed to the State under the National Health Service Act 1946 , and are now managed by selected and not by elected authorities . |