Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was entirely comfortable with the predictable opinion of the Senior Chief Inspector of Schools who confessed that ‘ I am not much moved by what appears to sacrifice the interests of the few in favour of the many when one result is certain to be that the quality of the person required to fill posts of great importance and of a highly specialized nature is likely to be degraded . ’ |
| 2 | I am not entirely convinced by Creamer 's attempt to provoke a reassessment through formal devices ; the female image is trapped within layers of muted , glazed oil paint , while a neutral , opaque band at the base of the canvas reinforces the distance between subject and viewer . |
| 3 | Although I am not entirely convinced by the contents of the motion , I agree with parts of it . |
| 4 | The Association blames the fact that incinerators are not automatically checked by the Pollution Inspectorate or local environmental health officers . |
| 5 | In our discussion in Chapter 1 about economy , efficiency and effectiveness , the technical problem was how we can meaningfully compare inputs and outputs to produce a measure of efficiency when outputs are not automatically valued by the market price . |
| 6 | MORRISSEY is to play a pre-Christmas gig in Paris and , in response to recent criticisms ( not least in these pages ) , special schemes are being put in place to ensure fans are not again inconvenienced by a last-minute cancellation . |
| 7 | There may well be gender differences in attitudes to paid work , but these are not adequately demonstrated by the reiteration of the old adage that women 's primary role is a family one . |
| 8 | There is increasing evidence that wedge-like features of a number of dinucleotides are not adequately described by these simple models ( 3,8,9,15,29 ) . |
| 9 | Problems ( again not attributable to readers ) were also caused by items which are not adequately identified by the pressmark supplied in their catalogue entry ( 9% ) , and by serials , of which the location of a particular issue may not be evident from information available in the Issue Hall ( 6% ) , while the sending of call-slips to an inappropriate part of the Library also caused some delay ( 4% ) . |
| 10 | Underlying their actions and understandings are , as we suggested in Chapter 1 , relations which are not adequately captured by most Marxist commentators . |
| 11 | They have complained , above all , that they are not adequately reported by the federally owned media during or after the monthly meetings which they have held regularly since coming to power in October 1979 . |
| 12 | If items are not immediately preceded by a printable prompt string ( even if null ) then a " ? " will be printed as a prompt . |
| 13 | As with any legal document , a record contract contains clauses and phrases which are not easily understood by the layman . |
| 14 | In making the choice , the selection conference in the case of the Labour Party , and the constituency executive in the case of the Conservative Party , are not easily moved by pressure from outside and even the leaders of the parties have found it hard to get close friends and political associates nominated . |
| 15 | It is important to note that , in any given society , mating patterns are not easily manipulated by policy and edicts , but change in response to education , socio-cultural processes and aspects of development . |
| 16 | But unfortunately there are few descriptive accounts of people 's efforts to reduce the likelihood that an event will occur , perhaps because effective responses are self-evident , or because they are not easily assessed by investigators in that successful action will have removed the difficulty . |
| 17 | They can have maturity dates of anything up to 189 days , and of course by their nature are not easily controlled by suppliers . |
| 18 | The consequences of this disparity are not completely offset by the greater efficiency of the NHS . |
| 19 | Difficulties are posed for the review process by Oxford Polytechnic 's version of modularity , but most of these are not intrinsically produced by modular design : for example , the requirement that students study two subjects inevitably complicates review , but is not an essential feature of modular courses and frequently exists in non-modular systems . |
| 20 | If the effects of habituation are not powerfully offset by rewarding sexual experience , the partner may lose his or her attractiveness and become the equivalent of a sibling . |
| 21 | Finally , we know that ( A believes that ) B has been to A's present location before because of the word again : this can be claimed to be a pragmatic rather than a semantic implication just because , unlike semantic implications , those associated with again are not normally negated by the negation of the main verb . |
| 22 | Scottish solicitors ' accounts in English legal aid cases are not normally taxed by Taxing Masters in England , but under an informal arrangement are referred for scrutiny to the Central Committee Taxation Department . |
| 23 | ON SUNDAY November 22 , the Bath Area Group of the Swanage Railway Project chartered a ‘ Brakevan Tour ’ on the Severn Valley Railway for a return journey from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth taking in some loops and sidings that are not normally traversed by passenger trains . |
| 24 | Nightmares are not normally experienced by adults in good health , though we may all experience one occasionally . |
| 25 | ( 1 ) Underwriting arrangements on arm 's length commercial terms between the offeror and underwriters and sub-underwriters ( eg in respect of a cash underwritten alternative ) are not normally considered by the Panel to amount to an agreement or understanding within the meaning of " acting in concert " . |
| 26 | Thus while drive-related dreams and even simple dreams of wish-fulfilment can occur , they are not reliably elicited by the mere existence of an unsatisfied appetite . |
| 27 | Although this interest in pseudo-historical connections was Morgan 's primary concern , he was also one of the first anthropologists to understand that the names used to designate relatives are not simply determined by linguistic rules without reference to social factors ; kinship terms have an important social dimension , since relatives grouped together and called by the same term exhibit , at least in certain respects , shared patterns of behaviour . |
| 28 | " Ways of life " then are not simply characterised by forms , rather , " ways of life " are structured by forms ( of organisation , by material forms which themselves , " habitus " -like , structure activities … ) . |
| 29 | In particular , I am interpreting it to imply that we are not simply governed by considerations of immediate personal advantage . |
| 30 | Thus the returns going to labour and capital are not simply allocated by the hidden hand of the market ; they stabilise only as the outcome of conflict . |