Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] be [verb] by " in BNC.

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31 It must not be controlled by another company or by " another company and persons connected with that other company " ( a BES concept ) .
32 OVEX TM must not be taken by women who are or think they may be pregnant .
33 Should not be ruled by a foreign power .
34 Today sees the start of National Chip Week , during which the Frozen Food Information Service will endeavour to persuade the British public that the humble chip is , in fact , an important part of a healthy diet and should not be condemned by would-be nutritional experts .
35 For example , despite her attachment to an extra-textual and pre-linguistic domain of mental activity , Nathalie Sarraute 's work , according to Heath , should not be limited by interpretative strategies which are fundamentally referentialist in orientation .
36 Nevertheless , there are people who argue that local planning authorities ' decisions best reflect local circumstances and should not be overruled by the central Government or their appointed planning inspectors .
37 Kaifu 's revised package , including further compromises and in particular meeting Komeito 's insistence that the entire sum should not be raised by tax increases , was publicly accepted by Komeito on Feb. 16 , thereby making its approval by the end of March almost inevitable .
38 The Commission should not be swayed by the siren voices of the protectionist coalition of farmers and EC giants like Daimler-Benz , Philips and Olivetti .
39 We should not be misled by any temptation to assume that what we are dealing with here is the familiar disposition of many words , mentioned above , to vary in their referential effect according to the standard considered relevant for the type of the noun ; as if , to take the last sentence in ( 34 ) it was simply a matter of adjusting our standard of what counts as old from the range suitable for schools to the smaller one which is appropriate to individual human beings .
40 In the case of a self-contained building this should not be accepted by the tenant .
41 Policies and actions should not be dictated by widely held but largely unexamined preconceptions , since the distorted images which they can produce are to the detriment of ordinary people as they age .
42 Such criteria of vulnerability should not be built-in by the programmer .
43 Britain only have this weekend to worry about , and Widnes and Wigan , with nine squad members between them , should not be extended by the visits of Wakefield and Barrow .
44 The hard hyphen is used in words or figures which should not be separated by a line-ending even though they contain hyphens : a name like Templeton-Brown , for instance ; or 1939–45 or -5 degrees C.
45 Its importance and future potential should not be ignored by governments in their agricultural planning .
46 In terms of equilibrium theory , Bukharin was concerned that the existing , and fragile , equilibrium should not be destroyed by untoward leaps which would threaten the Soviet regime .
47 Francis Bacon took that line when he suggested that , in seeking to understand the immediate causes of physical phenomena , the experimental philosopher should not be diverted by metaphysical considerations concerning the purpose of the phenomenon in question .
48 We are the victims of a societal ethic that voluntary service provision should not be tainted by association with political activism .
49 It should not be affected by recession .
50 The Ramallah Congress delegation argued ‘ it should first be decided to allow the refugees to return , and once that is decided their actual return should not be affected by the discussion on the border question …
51 This conclusion should not be affected by any view we take about whether the use of memory constitutes a re-examination of the original sensation or a mere inspection of how that sensation now seems to us to have been .
52 Thus output might be altered by a technological breakthrough , or by changes in the structure of taxation which affected the choice between work and leisure , or by changes in other real variables , but should not be affected by a change in nominal spending : such changes should affect the price at which the available output is sold and not the quantity of output itself .
53 A guardian 's appointment should not be affected by transfer of the case to another court unless the receiving court terminates the appointment ( Home Office Circular 48/1991 , para 50 ) .
54 Colin MacCabe 's position was that realism should not be defined by content or by its capacity to mirror reality but by the way in which the text 's organisation functioned to position the spectator/reader .
55 Pleas that the character of the North Yorkshire market town of Pickering should not be spoiled by takeaway food shops have been made by town councillors who rejected schemes to convert a dry cleaners into a kebab house and for a pizza takeaway at a music shop .
56 Discussion between the team leader and his surveyor must take place as the monitoring process should not be done by one person in isolation .
57 But this should not be done by measures which add to employment costs , they argue .
58 But they requested that his refusal should not be transmitted by appeal to the court of France ( that is , to the king and peers ) , for that would be to recognize the superiority of Philip III 's court in a matter which was by no means certain .
59 There would appear to be no valid reason why poetic achievement should not be analysed by philosophical or even psychological methods .
60 They er they they should not be received by me .
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