Example sentences of "n't by [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps , but Sibylle — who admits that she positively enjoyed much of her time in the Hitler Youth — believes that the ordinary man and woman in the street was n't by inclination a resistance fighter . |
2 | ‘ You would n't by chance be going into Colchester , would you ? ’ |
3 | And so , Nicodemus learned that it was n't by reformation , trying to make himself better , or by being religious , but he need regeneration , that 's what regeneration means . |
4 | For if they are n't by Carver , then they 're by two close contemporaries of his who , on the evidence of the music itself , were comparably important composers — and thus they constitute even more precious evidence for the flourishing state of Scots musical culture in the first half of the 16th century . |
5 | And it ca n't by definition be about sexual liberation simply because it duplicates and exploits those same power relationships . ’ |
6 | A disaster ca n't by definition last too long . |
7 | And , and peasants were n't by nature , in their , in their processes erm violent , it was only |