Example sentences of "not by " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will learn by our own experience what is best , and not by following the dogmatism of another . |
| 2 | I would not to-morrow , for the sake of a united Ireland , give up the policy of trying to make this a really Irish Ireland — not by any means . |
| 3 | It is likely that this is caused not by having less religious education , but by the fact that they tend to be peopled by children of classes who have traditionally fewer links with the church , and include parents making active decisions to keep their children out of the clergy 's grasp . |
| 4 | Our civilization will be destroyed , he wrote , not by the Bomb but by its reverence for the Creative Spirit . |
| 5 | Remember that if the glider is drifting towards an obstruction this can only be stopped by banking away from it and not by just applying the rudder . |
| 6 | His representation of Jocasta was , as are all representations , incomplete ; and his behaviour was driven by this representation of the woman not by some physical fact about the world . |
| 7 | He argues that the language of folk psychology ( talk about ‘ beliefs ’ , ‘ desires ’ and the like ) may float free of the kind of mental states that actually do the computational work : these are defined solely by their syntax and causal role , not by their reference . |
| 8 | To break away , to London , a bedsit , a rather cozy bedsit , laughter and plonk , moaning in the staffroom , and laughter , and exhaustion , and nothing , nothing achieved , not for the kids , not by me . |
| 9 | Not by plane , we 'll catch the train and then the ferry like before , almost nostalgically since when the tunnel is open , there 'll be no more frontiers to cross : the sea , I think again , has already ceased to exist for England . |
| 10 | I suspect that the rejection of the £7m offer by the All England Club for the land of the Wimbledon Sports Club opposite is not by any means the end of the story . |
| 11 | Changes can be made in the look of any step not by a change in the tempo but in the time signature : for example , dancing a pas de basque to a 2/4 or 6/8 instead of the usual 3/4 . |
| 12 | That Raskolnikov is not by nature timorous is the author 's assurance to his readers , dependable through nineteenthcentury novelistic convention . |
| 13 | Thus what I called Crime and Punishment 's apocalyptic naturalism is its most vital link with The Possessed ; I mean , when Dostoevsky read about that gang murder in the Moscow Record his mind 's eye was caught not by a bizarre and therefore very newsworthy incident but by the seed of a foul commonplace : the seed in eternity , in the deepest realism , though also in the mere mundane future , for Dostoevsky did imagine a time when only the most spectacular acts of terrorism would get headline treatment . |
| 14 | One lamentable practice which Crews rightly scorns is the increasingly revived trick or medieval rhetoric in which one attempts to substantiate one 's theoretical argument not by anything so vulgarly empirical as a fact or a text but merely by invoking a name from the sacred pantheon . |
| 15 | It was not easy to think of a precedent , and one could be forgiven for concluding that the notorious obscurity of the poem came about not by the author 's design but accidentally , because the work was the product not of one mind but of two . |
| 16 | Now , this surge in demand was equally clearly created by the grown-up private sector , not by a government binge . |
| 17 | But Mr Browning had told police his route took him via the M4 , over the Severn Bridge , and not by the more direct route of the M50 . |
| 18 | The Frenchman , who protested his innocence when he failed a drug test after winning the Tour of Wallonia in 1987 , is one of a number of leading riders to have failed a test , including Pedro Delgado , the Spaniard who was allowed to complete and win the Tour de France last year after a test revealed a substance banned by the International Olympic Committee but not by the International Cycling Union . |
| 19 | Some of that information has to be gathered by disinterested investigators , not by politicians or pressure groups intent on proving points . |
| 20 | In my own university , for instance , the number of first year students of biology that we have been able to accept this year has been entirely constrained not by the quality of our applicants but the physical size of our teaching laboratories . |
| 21 | We almost convince ourselves that the music is created not by the orchestra but by the tip of the baton itself , rich sounds oozing out like some exotic genie . |
| 22 | A Duxbury calculation could not by itself provide the answer as to the sum to which the wife was entitled , though it produced a figure to which the judge was entitled to have regard in deciding what was the right answer . |
| 23 | Objections by neighbours and others are often dealt with not by scrapping a proposal altogether , but by amendments agreed between the applicant and the council which meet most , if not all , concerns . |
| 24 | The familiar adage is that ethnographic research provides depth by sacrificing breadth but , as Finch ( 1986 ) argues , it is possible to build an element of generality into this type of research not by random sampling , which is usual in quantitative research , but by constructing individual projects in the mould of similar ones in different settings so that comparisons can be made and a body of cumulative knowledge established . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Though the news was at least relatively balanced and impartial , the balance was achieved by giving time and attention to a variety of alternative viewpoints , not by suppressing diversity . |
| 27 | She gathers that she has been lucky on her journey to avoid the widespread banditry , carried out more often than not by deserters from the army . |
| 28 | The issue was solved , not by due legal process , but by a brawl between the colonists and the village lads , who were chased back into the Soviet building which was later smashed up . |
| 29 | He was replaced , not by the senior figure of Denis Healey , who was chained to his oar at the Treasury in the aftermath of the IMF cuts , but by the youthful and little-known figure of David Owen , Crosland 's junior minister at the Foreign Office . |
| 30 | Along with this , Callaghan was not by instinct an institutional radical . |