Example sentences of "not [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | This hypothesis is largely but not wholly borne out by the empirical evidence . |
| 2 | But how do we sustain , in prose or verse , a feeling that is intensely personal , not obviously called up by something ‘ on the outside ’ but which seems to be embedded deep within us ? |
| 3 | The reader is always aware that although he knows and mostly likes the people he is writing about , he is not necessarily taken in by their ideas . |
| 4 | So their credit policies were not generally held back by balance of payments considerations . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | primarily and fundamentally one who is friendly , a good mixer , of sound character and having much commonsense ; she must be patient , not easily put out by misbehaviour or pressure of work , remaining calm at all times ; she must like children and be tolerant of them and their ways and also of her colleagues ; she must be willing to turn her hand to any job that needs to be done in the department even if it is normally done by people junior to herself . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | Mrs Thatcher was not technically brought down by the formal election processes . |
| 9 | But this pattern is not always borne out by the ethnographic evidence . |
| 10 | This poetry , by contrast , evokes a sympathy in me which is not often brought out by poetry , and I hope and believe that the works of Owen will become great classics and last for a long time . |
| 11 | Since all the members of the family made no attempt to hide their feelings of antipathy , Mathilde 's behaviour was in itself not particularly remarked on by those who packed the huge interior of Notre Dame : |
| 12 | At Home : Not quite creased up by the new , improved wonder iron |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Anarak Adventure state that if you are not completely knocked out by the finished product there will be no charge ! ! |
| 15 | 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 . |