Example sentences of "not [be] [verb] by [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Why has this extraordinary assemblage not been secured by Italy ?
2 In five of these seven , the stones were also found by ultrasonagraphy but in two , recurrences were identified by oral cholecystectography , which had not been detected by echography .
3 Williams , certain that he had not been detected by Tawell , returned to his office , confident that Tawell had retired for the night .
4 Prost has to finish four points ahead of Lauda to be champion ( having more victories ; it would have been three if Monaco had not been curtailed by rain , but then , if rain had not fallen , Prost would not have won in Monaco ) .
5 Perelandra shows that even on the mythopoeic level this most difficult of doctrines had not been absorbed by Lewis .
6 R v Stanley ; CA ( Crim Div ) ( Bingham LJ , Ognall , McKinnon JJ ) ; 2 Oct 1989 Where a judge has it in mind to make a compensation order but the possibility has not been raised by counsel , it is the judge 's duty to raise the matter of his own motion so that it may be properly and fairly ventilated .
7 At the time of writing these radical provisions of the 1989 Act have not been tested by experience , but this is unlikely to remain the case for long .
8 Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) .
9 The Chinese room had so far not been touched by Sara or her decorators .
10 Intelligence sources in West Germany say that efforts to stop the current wave of IRA attacks have not been hampered by rivalries and that different organisations have been co-operating well together .
11 The alleyways were scored with deep trenches down which the water ran when it rained ; or would have run had its passage not been blocked by heaps of refuse , dung and animal guts , behind which the water collected in stagnant pools , above which mosquitoes hung in a cloud .
12 ‘ ( a ) when the whole of the price has not been paid or tendered ; ( b ) when a bill of exchange or other negotiable instrument has been received as conditional payment , and the condition on which it was received has not been fulfilled by reason of the dishonour of the instrument or otherwise . ’
13 Examine all those planted the previous autumn and winter to see that the soil has not been loosened by frost .
14 Check that roots of wallflowers have not been loosened by wind and refirm them if necessary .
15 Women suffer a dual burden of work inside and outside the home and the strains experienced by working mothers have not been eased by offers of help either from male partners or the wider community and the state .
16 So Protestant opinions had not been silenced by Arran 's change of heart after the initial heady days of 1543 ; and the Rough Wooing had not broken the link between the English and the hopes of Scottish Protestants .
17 That statement had been true and had in any case not been made by Moorgate Mercantile , since H.P.I. was not an agent of Moorgate Mercantile for the purpose of making such a statement .
18 If rats , traditionally used for studies on urine flow , had not been replaced by dogs , just because larger animals were needed , the new drug , chlorothiazide , would have been missed , since its activity in rats is insignificant .
19 They could now field a team featuring only two players , Nunnerley and the captain Tim Crothers , who have not been recognised by Wales .
20 But these unions have not been recognised by BR for negotiating purposes and their impact has been limited .
21 Following treatment , calves should be moved to pasture which has not been grazed by cattle in the same year .
22 to say that if er , it is not a SAT year , we are obliged to say these levels have not been confirmed by SATs so the only in year nine we , we do n't need to say that .
23 How about this then , these levels have not been confirmed by SATS except in the year nine report ?
24 He imagined labour as it would be , had it not been formulated by capitalism , and say that it would then be merely an aspect of the total business of living , unseparated from such activities as recreation , consumption , family life : that it would be just part of existence .
25 After talks in Moscow on Nov. 7 the Greek and Russian Foreign Ministers , Michalis Papaconstantinou and Andrei Kozyrev respectively , initialled a bilateral agreement on friendship and co-operation which had been signed between Greece and the former Soviet Union but had not been ratified by Russia .
26 They won that Test — and have not been beaten by England since , chalking up seven more victories and five draws .
27 The challenge to take hold of the world and mould it into the Utopia so desired has so far not been seen by humanity to be what it is .
28 Clear answers as to the types of weapons used in the invasion have also not been given by Washington .
29 I put that inversely i i he 's put down inversely fro from what we will we are obliged to do we 're obliged to say that these levels ha er have been erm have not been checked by SATS
30 I was allowed to talk with her and the patients , those who could , whose faces had not been obliterated by burns .
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