Example sentences of "not [adv] [adv] [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I am in heaven — no , not dead just surrounded by metal detectors ! |
| 2 | Will he provide encouragement so that those schemes teach young people , particularly from inner-city areas , that the beauty of rural areas such as parts of my constituency is not necessarily just given by the good Lord , but often is created by man , because of the traditional and excellent pursuits of hunting and shooting ? |
| 3 | In these Articles injured States comprise those in a defined bilateral relationship ; those in a defined third party relationship ; those who share a formal relationship with the wrong-doer State , although not necessarily factually injured by the breach ; and those indirectly injured because their only injury is as a member of the international community . |
| 4 | The anonymity ( not perhaps best protected by the choice of pseudonym ) held just long enough for Baldwin to be alone in the secret amongst those present when he performed his statutory Financial Secretary 's duty of witnessing the burning of the cancelled bonds , but not for much longer . |
| 5 | On this basis , it is hard to see what , if anything , a separate category of unlawful means conspiracy adds to the law and while not perhaps strictly abolished by judicial fiat it may be expected to fade away . |
| 6 | He was tough and strong , disciplined and unselfish — he was the epitome of the goal-maker , whose efforts were recognised by his colleagues and opponents and by the discerning fan , but were perhaps not so well appreciated by less perceptive onlookers or pressmen . |
| 7 | A picture emerges of a courageous , determined , resilient little individual , not so badly damaged by her early experiences , after all . |
| 8 | These proposals were initially welcomed by both Helmut Kohl , the West German Federal Chancellor , and his Foreign Minister , Hans-Dietrich Genscher ( although they were not so favourably received by the East German government ) , but on May 8 Kohl rejected them as " negotiation poker " . |
| 9 | The boy slept in a large front bedroom whose window , were it not so closely covered by an old woollen blanket , looked out over the once elegant front walkway with its crazy paving and stepped terraces . |
| 10 | We are not so easily fooled by reflections in lakes or puddles . |
| 11 | ‘ CT ST N T MT , ’ will soon be exposed by crossword buffs as ‘ The cat sat on the mat , ’ but place names are not so easily guessed by context . |
| 12 | But the structures of inference involved are not so easily captured by the dualistic thinking spoken of earlier . |
| 13 | The differentiation of accidents from other types is useful in the context of emergency planning and is not so clearly conveyed by other hazard typologies . |
| 14 | Successful business transactions hinge on the overcoming of cultural barriers to communication , with the consequent emergence of a localised negotiated order , not so clearly dominated by the host society and its culture . |
| 15 | He has also been a fine advocate of the Piano Concerto , not so far recorded by him . |
| 16 | In July 1943 the Town and Country Planning ( Interim Development ) Bill received the Royal Assent , legislation which effectively extended planning control to the whole of the country not so far covered by a planning scheme . |
| 17 | Though not so far repeated by other workers elsewhere , this French work would seem to demonstrate test-tube ( in vitro ) effects of homoeopathic potencies , albeit low ones , in a wide variety of laboratory situations . |
| 18 | Leonard was not so much brutalised by the experience , as anaesthetised : hence the recollection of only desire throughout his youth . |
| 19 | Not so much bound by formal rules and procedures as large organisations . |
| 20 | The exceptionally high absenteeism on Mondays and Fridays , which necessitated employing thirty per cent more workers than was economically justified , was not so much caused by the demon drink ; but because … etcetera , etcetera … . |
| 21 | [ Yet ] give him [ the American ] all these advantages , and he will still be longing to cross the water , to get back to that old home of his fathers , so delightful in itself … the less wealthy , less cultivated , less fastidious class of Americans are not so much haunted by these longings … |
| 22 | Our bondage to society is not so much established by conquest as by collusion … we are entrapped by our own social nature . |
| 23 | Only then does he discover that the system of which he is a hero is not so highly regarded by all its customers . |
| 24 | In another area , for example in the interior regions of Italy , where land is in short supply and where production patterns are not so severely restricted by climate and latitude , a more diversified farming pattern may be possible . |
| 25 | In the South , where Labour was not so deeply influenced by trade-union traditions , the local parties were becoming an increasingly coherent pressure group with a common outlook and a tendency to look outside the Labour Party and towards the Communists for ideological guidance . |
| 26 | In a report , Stories For Boys , she wrote : ‘ The programme is not only largely produced by men , but is also , in the main , a massively sexist affair . ’ |
| 27 | If we do not get them , when this tax is put into place many single elderly people , in particular , will feel not only hard done by but that they have not been properly considered . |
| 28 | Group 2 argued , for instance , that this configuration is not only cohesively linked by a broad lexical set including the items " rained " , " water " and " wet " , but it is also linked in terms of an implicit cause-and-effect relationship between the propositions expressed by each sentence . |
| 29 | This means that consciousness in its ideological form is not merely arbitrarily determined by material relations but is specifically determined by the set of economic relations existing in a given society . |
| 30 | At a minimum , Solidarity is expected to present more than one list to the voters at the next general election — if it has not already formally split by then . |