Example sentences of "not [adj] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The courts have held that if there is no evidence that the accused believed that he was not dishonest by the standards of ordinary people , the judge need not give a direction in Ghosh terms : Roberts ( 1987 ) 84 Cr App R 117 on handling ; Price ( 1989 ) 90 Cr App R 409 on deception ; and Squire [ 1990 ] Crim LR 341 on conspiracy to defraud . |
| 2 | The jury , however , does not ask whether the accused believed he was acting with the relevant state of mind , but under the Theft Acts as well as offences of fraud the jury must acquit if the accused believed that what he did was not dishonest by the standards of ordinary decent people . |
| 3 | Roberts ( 1987 ) 84 Cr App R 117 held that the second stage of the Ghosh test does not have to be given in handling cases if there is no evidence that the accused did believe that he was not dishonest by the standards of ordinary decent people . |
| 4 | He was not upset by the story-Vanessa had freed herself to consort with dukes if she chose — but touched by Marshall 's gesture . |
| 5 | That compares with 540,000 people in the claimant count who were not unemployed by the ILO definition . |
| 6 | All the hobbitic jokes are doing , then , is to reflect and by intention deflect the modern inhibition over high styles which we and they share ; if we were not embarrassed by the hobbits , in other words , we would be by the heroes . |
| 7 | The bleak prospect disclosed by this view of present and potential conflict situations is not relieved by the existence of any significant social movement which is clearly capable of diminishing the appeal of nationalism , or substituting a new and persuasive political ideal for that of the nation state . |
| 8 | Here it seems as if , contrary to the pre-emption thesis , the original reasons are not pre-empted by the arbitrator 's decision . |
| 9 | though not unstirred by the Baroque |
| 10 | Creggan 's arrival among his own kind in Scotland coincided with the breeding season and he was not welcome by the pairs whose territory he crossed . |
| 11 | The shape of a jigsaw is determined by the shapes of the pieces , but there are objects with well-defined shapes which are not explicable by the shapes of their constituent molecules . |
| 12 | I mean , some of these who could be passed round to see , to get the size , but some of these , in fact the grand total does not equal by the teams needs , in courses that 's why they are unsuccessful . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the dynamic of four sessions did have a remarkable effect not unassisted by the fact that when Cardinal Montini became Paul VI , this meant that one of the most thoughtful and determined of the moderately progressive conservatives was now pope . |
| 14 | Mum tried to calm her but Mary was not impressed by the thought that the money for hiring the hall had been saved . |
| 15 | He is not impressed by the Prince because of who he is , but because of the man he is : because of his gift for talking to people , his tenacity and his courage in confronting problems that other men would shy away from . |
| 16 | After a round of drinks ( one beer and three fashionable gin and tonics for 25 dollars ) the girls decide they are not impressed by the striptease . |
| 17 | He is not impressed by the idea of suggestion as the basis of crowd behaviour , for no explanation is given by simply referring to the suggestibility of people as the reason for crowds being influenced by leaders . |
| 18 | Mr Saddiqui was not impressed by the launch of the organisation although he wished it well . |
| 19 | Wright , who prides himself on being a fierce competitor , was not impressed by the manager 's outburst — but answered the criticism in the best way possible , by scoring Arsenal 's first goal and then keeping them going as Derby fought their way back into the game . |
| 20 | We are confirmed in our impression that line A is not perspicuous by the fact that a modern version like NIV finds it necessary to offer an expanded rendering : " Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires " ( my italics ) . |
| 21 | If not evident by the number of red spots on the exhibition sale list , or the latest book of illustrations , questions are often asked as to how the artist is surviving . |
| 22 | So Jesus when he sees their situation , he 's not concerned by the storm by the way , he 's not put out by that because he knows he 's going to the other side , but for the sake of them he gets up and he speaks the word , Jesus he said , peace . |
| 23 | But , Himmelfarb ( 1968 p 78 ) argued , its designer was not concerned by the building 's intrinsic potential for despotic control : " To Bentham … if it was in the interest of society to confine them in a Panopticon , to subject them to an absolute master , to exploit their labor … [ then ] it was necessary and proper that all this be done . |
| 24 | Mr Armitage is not concerned by the fall from a record 7,000- plus students a year in the mid-1980s to around 4,000 today . |
| 25 | Studies reported here show that : a ) Transcripts from genes not concerned by the mutation are present at the same level in both strains . |
| 26 | Fusil was not concerned by the lack of foreign interest in the first race — more worrying was the fact that no French team finished in the top three . |
| 27 | Athelstan could see Cranston was not pleased by the news . |
| 28 | He was about to embark on temporary fame , not unaided by the fact that his coach , Ken Seddington , was Benny Hill 's television stand-in . |
| 29 | Contrary to popular myth Darwin was not thunderstruck by the theory of evolution during his voyage on the Beagle . |
| 30 | Gibble and Chu are not distressed by the discrepancy , because there is fair uncertainty in the interatomic potentials that are used in the calculation . |