Example sentences of "not [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People aroused by the possibilities of social power will seek it more consistently than those who are not aroused by power . |
| 2 | I think it dawned on him then for the first time that there were two streams , and that the pond was not formed by Burden Creek . |
| 3 | any of the rights of the shares to receive payments ( whether in respect of dividends , in respect of redemption or otherwise ) are for a limited amount which is not calculated by reference to the company 's assets or profits or the dividends on any class of equity share . |
| 4 | any of their rights to participate in a surplus in a winding up are limited to a specific amount which is not calculated by reference to the company 's assets or profits and such limitation had a commercial effect in practice at the time the shares were issued or , if later , at the time the limitation was introduced . |
| 5 | Also , people simplify their worlds : they learn through deductive logic but possibly more through experience , and , once learned , the lesson is stored in simplified form as schemas and scripts so that action is not paralysed by thought . |
| 6 | And , perhaps , since he was not blinded by love after all , he might be prepared to listen to her for once ! |
| 7 | Within 15 minutes the human eye begins to become accustomed to the dark — provided it is not blinded by light , in which case , you have to start all over again . |
| 8 | who is not blinded by power or money , |
| 9 | Whenever a specific sanction is not prescribed by Community Law , it is left to the discretion of the Member States to choose among the different solutions suitable to achieve the objective of the provision infringed . |
| 10 | Our present findings are consistent with the generally accepted view that peak acid output reflects the parietal cell mass and is not altered by eradication of H pylori . |
| 11 | In our investigations , cholecystokinin-8 induced amylase secretion and total protein content of the pancreatic juice were not altered by indomethacin , findings that are in agreement with studies in man and dogs . |
| 12 | In its early days in Berners Street the Institute was not recognized by Industry and Commerce , as Sir Kenneth Cork recalled in his Foreword to the Golden Jubilee issue of the Journal of the Institute of Credit Management ( which it had become in 1989 ) , of which he was President . |
| 13 | It is therefore important that the procedure used to produce a sample of visitors is not biased by size of group . |
| 14 | If the throng was not distinguished by beauty or birth , scholarship or piety , it made up for it in sheer vigour . |
| 15 | The appellants applied to discharge the registrar 's order on the ground , firstly , that it was in all the circumstances oppressive and secondly , that it amounted to the use of section 236(2) for a purpose not intended by Parliament . |
| 16 | The demand fur such a common culture rests either on an altogether over-optimistic belief in the educability of the majority that is certainly not justified by experience or on a willingness to surrender the highest standards of taste and judgement to the incessant demands of mediocrity . |
| 17 | Firstly , Worsley argues that overgeneralizations about the breakdown of the family unit are not justified by evidence on kinship networks . |
| 18 | Ethnic conflict is not explained by competition for limited resources ; it seems to have an ideological basis . |
| 19 | Acute symptomatic illness not explained by disease |
| 20 | This difference was significant ( p<0.001 ) and was not explained by age , parity , marital status , or social class , which were similar in both groups . |
| 21 | Held , allowing the appeal , that although ‘ action ’ in section 69 of the Solicitors Act 1974 was to be construed liberally it could extend only to forms of legal process and did not embrace a statutory demand , the service of which was merely part of the statutorily prescribed procedure for obtaining remedies afforded to creditors by a bankruptcy order and did not of itself initiate legal proceedings ; that a solicitor was therefore not debarred by section 69(1) from serving a statutory demand for payment of his costs before the expiration of one month from the date of delivery of his bill of costs ; and that , accordingly , since the statutory demand and petition were valid , they would be remitted to the district judge for hearing ( post , pp. 1029E–F , G — 1030A , 1031E ) . |
| 22 | They notified the applicant of their decision not to appeal by letter dated 23 November 1990 . |
| 23 | It is exactly the same point as John makes by his assertion that ‘ the Spirit was not given by measure ’ to Jesus , but rested upon him and remained in fulfilment of the promises of the Old Testament ( 3:34 , 1:32,33 ) . |
| 24 | Even Baumrind ( 1982 ) , supporting Gilligan 's different voice hypothesis against what she sees as the traditionalism of the psychology of androgyny , holds on to the traditional framework of Jungian psychology in order to do this , and later ( 1986 ) , reinterprets the hypothesis in a humanist and spiritual framework , which is not differentiated by gender . |
| 25 | This would be evidence against the present finding that identification with the housewife role is not differentiated by class . |
| 26 | Consequently , they recommended that ‘ campaigning ’ should be funded from elsewhere and not undertaken by law centres . |
| 27 | Facet analysis underlies the structure , but is not emphasized by facet indicators as in a more conventional faceted classification scheme . |
| 28 | It is 106 metres high , its height not limited by technology , but by respect for the Madonnina on top of , the Duomo . |
| 29 | The entrance with its kiosk and museum was away at the far side , and not inhabited by night . |
| 30 | Battles are won tactically ; they are not won by strategy . |