Example sentences of "not by the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Western historians tend to see them as alienated intellectuals motivated not by the interests of any major section of society but by a host of heterogeneous ideas , romantic and modernizing , dictatorial and democratic . |
| 2 | However we interpret the process of causation , Henry V was baffled , not by the bones , but by the big battalions . |
| 3 | The auditor is appointed at the Annual General Meeting of the PLC ( not by the shareholders or the directors or the officers ) . |
| 4 | In passing from one parish to another , in simply crossing a nameless brook or road , we may step back into fields that were created , not by the commissioners of Georgian times , but by the Tudor squire or perhaps even by his monastic predecessors in the fifteenth century . |
| 5 | Much of the strongest criticism was voiced not by the judges in the House but by non-lawyers such as Lord Benson who had chaired the Royal Commission on Legal Services which reported in 1979 . |
| 6 | It is time that Mr Major let British interest rates be fixed by the needs of our low-inflation recessionary economy , not by the Germans ' need to fight the rising inflation caused by their economic mismanagement . |
| 7 | They are both transmittable and accumulative , and they are cultural in the sense that they are transmitted by the society , not by the genes ’ ( Nida 1954:28 ) . |
| 8 | The next action , however , was taken not by the Protestants but by the Catholics ; and a very puzzling one it was . |
| 9 | But it is a judgment to be made by him and not by the courts , whose right and duty to intervene arises only if the decision is untenable in the sense that irrelevant matters were taken account of , relevant matters were not taken account of , or that the decision was manifestly wrong . |
| 10 | Does the Minister agree that such waste should be treated or disposed of not by the producers of that waste , but by some other body which may be more independent with regard to financial considerations ? |
| 11 | But the Bratianu family abided as often as not by the principles of its imported Western liberalism as its inherited clannishness . |
| 12 | Dicey felt that ‘ a real limit to the exercise of sovereignty is imposed not by the laws of man but by the nature of things ’ . |
| 13 | If some media products can have effects which are subtle , persuasive and demonstratively antisocial , not by the standards of the day or the ruling party , but by the ethical standards which define civilisation , then no society can ignore the matter . |
| 14 | ‘ I am not ill , not by the standards that exist here . ’ |
| 15 | Area panels which have been so bitterly criticised , and neighbourhood forums , have since confirmed the wisdom of that process and the rejection of a Tory budget process , driven not by the needs of the community but the need to deliver the firm Thatcherite message which is still there , set a poll tax as low as possible and then work your priorities backwards irrespective of the consequences . |
| 16 | Usually these are children from one-parent families , children in local-authority care , or youngsters who need a respite from the household chores they assume as surrogate adults because their parents are ill , and even , in some cases , children with a parent in prison , and are selected for inclusion in the scheme not by the police but by schools and other caring agencies . |
| 17 | This would mean that in the absence of clear words , the terms of the hypothetical letting would be dictated by the market at the review date , and not by the terms of the lease . |
| 18 | But what has saddened me especially was the repeated rumour which I and some friends heard in the 1950s and early 1960s : that Leslie 's plane had been brought down not by the storms nor by enemy action , but by human error on our own side . |
| 19 | The Beirut camps were attacked from the mountains , not by the Israelis , but by anti-PLO forces . |
| 20 | He can impose his choice because the president is elected not by the voters but by the National Assembly , where the Motherland party still has an ample majority : it holds 290 seats out of 450 Should a party which , judging by the latest test at the polls , is supported by only one voter in five choose the head of state ? |
| 21 | But we do not have to follow him further , to the view that authentic Producers ' Co-operation is to be found in factories owned and ultimately controlled not by the men and women working in them , but by the members of the Consumers ' Co-operatives whose capital built and equipped the factories , and employed labour to work in them . |
| 22 | Meaning is something born primarily not by the parts but by the whole theory , since the whole theory is the only thing that has its own observational consequences . |
| 23 | One day he was found mysteriously dead in one of these enclosures , killed , not by the dogs , but by a human hand . |
| 24 | In the first instance , democracy is built by the institutions , not by the personalities . |
| 25 | He knew that his abilities had been recognised above , not by the glory-seekers and the empire-builders , those who ‘ shaped policy ’ and ‘ formed long-term strategies ’ , but by the old wise hands whose influence was most effective in the end . |
| 26 | It was a spirit summed up not by the hoards of identically painted Clios or the new 16-valve Chamade ( both in the UK next spring ) but by Laguna , the electric-blue and polished-silver roadster show car . |