Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This hypothesis is largely but not wholly borne out by the empirical evidence . |
| 2 | The merlin population has yet to recover , because they are still affected by levels of PCBs , which are not easily broken down by the environment and are still leaking from industrial sites . |
| 3 | In line with this general movement came talk of installing an automatic watering scheme for greens and tees — and not just spurred on by the drought summers of 1975 and 1976 — but by the costs and difficulties of staffing a manual system and by the increasing use of such systems elsewhere ! |
| 4 | Mrs Thatcher was not technically brought down by the formal election processes . |
| 5 | But this pattern is not always borne out by the ethnographic evidence . |
| 6 | At Home : Not quite creased up by the new , improved wonder iron |
| 7 | Perhaps Maury was not completely woken up by the falling bed to begin with , and dreamt some of his dream with the bed-head lying on him . |
| 8 | The Anarak Adventure state that if you are not completely knocked out by the finished product there will be no charge ! ! |
| 9 | For a particular package of software which is to be assessed for quality assurance , LIFESPAN will produce a discrepancy list between the tight and loose coupling relations in order to show to the assessor those modules which the designer thought were necessary but which are not however called up by the package . |
| 10 | Of course , people who saw the ill-starred couple on parade in Nottingham this week were n't exactly knocked out by the body language . |
| 11 | The High 's record company remixed then re-released their first single Box Set Go to considerable success , even though they were n't exactly bowled over by the idea . |
| 12 | but , but we , we , we might come across this again a bit later on th that i it 's entirely possible that what is being said at the early part is n't actually borne out by the details that come later on . |