Example sentences of "are [verb] not by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For appeals against sentences imposed by magistrates are heard not by the Court of Appeal , but by the Crown Court . |
| 2 | Seeking to economise its use , Daedalus reflected that most wooden structures are limited not by the strength of wood , but by its stiffness . |
| 3 | Even those within the scheme are finding their rights to benefit in practice are limited not by the fact of marriage per se ( as in the 1930s ) , but by their caring responsibilities . |
| 4 | In some birds , females are attracted not by the quality of a male 's territory , but by the male himself . |
| 5 | To think they are , shows that they are governed not by the Spirit but by the attitudes and outlook of their unregenerate days ( 3:1,3 ) . |
| 6 | For example , Marx 's economic theory insists that behind the surface phenomenon of wildly fluctuating market prices for goods and services there lies an underlying and controlling structure of values , which are determined not by the supply and demand forces which obsess ‘ bourgeois ’ economists , but by the laws of the labour theory of value . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In physical absence , being separated by ‘ injurious distance ’ , the theme of nine or ten consecutive sonnets ( 43 to 51 or perhaps 52 ) , to think of the Friend is again a consolation against misery , since he is ‘ present-absent ’ ( 45 ) in thought or image : After the parting , the reunion ( 97 ) : Now the poet juxtaposes with great deliberation ‘ actual time ’ and ‘ actual weather ’ against personal climate , those subjective feelings which are controlled not by the calendar but by our individual experience . |
| 9 | As deputy lieutenants are chosen not by the Queen or the Downing Street appointments secretary , but by the existing lord lieutenant , ‘ subject to the non-disapproval of the Queen ’ , most of the lieutenancy is a self-electing little clique . |
| 10 | 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 . |