Example sentences of "[subord] not [verb] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most immediate impression of the bourgeois interior of the mid-century is overcrowding and concealment , a mass of objects , more often than not disguised by drapes , cushions , cloths and wallpapers , and always , whatever their nature , elaborated . |
| 2 | After dinner he might finish some pressing publishing work , correcting manuscripts or writing blurbs ; if not inveigled by Hayward into escorting him to a party , or sitting with guests in the shared " living room " , he would retire to his own rooms for study or contemplation . |
| 3 | However , it was also accepted that such programs could be protected if not dictated by idea . |
| 4 | Of course , all such early introductions have many times been added to if not replaced by others right up to the present day . |
| 5 | ( Sir ) Arthur Conan Doyle [ q.v. ] was a medical student in Edinburgh and had been impressed if not inspired by Dr Bell 's professional appearance — ‘ a tall , stately , kindly man , keen eyes and aquiline features contributing to his air of intent investigation . |
| 6 | The results of the segmentation which follows from the expectation of interruptable time can be traced in the increasingly familiar forms of television fiction : an extended , rather than condensed form of the novelistic , in which attention is dispersed rather than concentrated ; highly populated narrative communities in which causality is less essential than character to the sense of continuity ; a narrative structure which need not end ( because not driven by causality ) , but which , if it does end , may end arbitrarily . |
| 7 | ‘ Reason tells us — when not choked by panic — that before we were born we were all dead , and that our post-mortem condition is no more frightening than the pre-natal twilight , ’ he wrote in EXIT 's Self Deliverance . |
| 8 | They are usable by any member of staff when not required by students . |
| 9 | In other words , nature is chaotic when not controlled by men ; so also are women . |