Example sentences of "not [noun sg] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I 'll do it by process of elimination ; find out what I 'm not bit by bit until I know who I am . ’ |
| 2 | So we were able to tell how many tickets of certain classes were sold each day but not route by route , we 'd lost that that facility because the waybills just were n't big enough and of course the , wa everything got mechanical but now I mean I do n't profess to know anything about what happens now but I was introduced to it when I went down there for a retirement and believe me it 's , it 's all electronics now they can tell how a ticket machine is issuing tickets at any particular one day by this , this electronic business , this computers . |
| 3 | Yet panels have to be one above the other , not side by side . |
| 4 | In an effort to recoup some of his lost prestige , he attempted to do by negotiation what he dared not attempt by force and so conceived a plan for the purchase by France of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , the acquisition of which would strengthen France 's eastern frontier . |
| 5 | It is not management by consensus by any means , ’ says one former colleague . |
| 6 | Those who listened to him critically were dismayed he could not see that it was not disapproval by pacifists , intellectuals or even cowards that made the Nazi assaults an atrocity . |
| 7 | Does he recognise that dialogue is not criticism by Ministers of everyone else 's proposals without making any positive contribution themselves ? |
| 8 | ‘ It does n't matter that he 's not perbene by birth . |
| 9 | So the man could calculate exactly what he was earning you know , hour by hour if not day by day and week by week . |
| 10 | Not only is it raining , it 's 5 o'clock , and though I 'm not defeatist by nature I do n't even bother looking for a taxi , deciding instead to walk the two miles back to the London flat . |
| 11 | The problem is , the term Lamarckism has changed its meaning in the course of this century , and now Lamarckism , if you say Lamarckism to most educated people , the first thing they normally think of , is not evolution by will , or , or progressivism , but inheritance of acquired characteristics . |
| 12 | However , the matter at issue in the cases now before the court is not access by vessels of member states to fishing activities in the Community but access by nationals of member states to vessels and to the operation of vessels . |
| 13 | Britain retained a parliamentary form of government , but what that meant was not government by Parliament but government through Parliament . |
| 14 | ( b ) United Kingdom delegated legislation In terms of quantity , the most prolific source of legislation in the United Kingdom today is not enactment by Parliament . |
| 15 | The market is changing not year by year , but month by month . |
| 16 | They did n't say that an and but they in this particular area , remember this is n't fly by wire , this is fly by light . |