Example sentences of "not be [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had Ken not been beset by peculiarly worrying tours as England manager/coach , that small family might have been spared such early grief . |
| 2 | Why has this extraordinary assemblage not been secured by Italy ? |
| 3 | About three-quarters of pupils in the lowest third knew how many days there are in certain months , although a number of pupils when interviewed said they had not been taught by their parents or at school any way of remembering the number of days in the months . |
| 4 | Williams , certain that he had not been detected by Tawell , returned to his office , confident that Tawell had retired for the night . |
| 5 | This states that , where a player commits an act of foul play which has not been detected by the match officials , that player 's union has the discretion to cite that player to show cause why he should not be held accountable in the same way as a player who has been ordered off the field of play . |
| 6 | In five of these seven , the stones were also found by ultrasonagraphy but in two , recurrences were identified by oral cholecystectography , which had not been detected by echography . |
| 7 | They point out that ‘ sustainable growth is a contradiction in terms ’ This is at the heart of the Green Party 's policies , and has not been adopted by any other party that I know of . |
| 8 | Categorisation of this type has been disapproved of explicitly , and has not been adopted by the majority of cases which have eschewed such pigeonholing . |
| 9 | According to the official statement the process was delayed because the census had still to be completed and the election code had not been adopted by the HCR . |
| 10 | A European Commission statement issued on Oct. 8 on behalf of the European Communities ( EC ) warned that this extension of the existing 30-year US embargo " had the potential to cause grave damage to the transatlantic relationship " , adding that it could not accept that " the USA unilaterally determines and restricts EC economic and commercial relations with any foreign nation which has not been designated by the UN as a threat to peace or order " . |
| 11 | The condemnation of the figures that the hon. Gentleman has read out is that in those boroughs we need never have had so many liability orders or so many people taken to the courts or threatened with prison if they had not been misled by Labour Members of Parliament and councillors into running up enormous debts . |
| 12 | ‘ After ascertaining that the reproductions had not been printed by the artist herself ’ , he writes , ‘ [ The Copyright Office ] ruled that the printer 's contribution added enough originality to the process to make the reproductions derivative works … and that the copyrights of the reproductions were therefore owned by the printers . |
| 13 | Where important structural timbers are infected but have not been weakened by the fungus , it may be practical to treat them with fungicide to retain them . |
| 14 | Prost has to finish four points ahead of Lauda to be champion ( having more victories ; it would have been three if Monaco had not been curtailed by rain , but then , if rain had not fallen , Prost would not have won in Monaco ) . |
| 15 | Perelandra shows that even on the mythopoeic level this most difficult of doctrines had not been absorbed by Lewis . |
| 16 | R v Stanley ; CA ( Crim Div ) ( Bingham LJ , Ognall , McKinnon JJ ) ; 2 Oct 1989 Where a judge has it in mind to make a compensation order but the possibility has not been raised by counsel , it is the judge 's duty to raise the matter of his own motion so that it may be properly and fairly ventilated . |
| 17 | At the time of writing these radical provisions of the 1989 Act have not been tested by experience , but this is unlikely to remain the case for long . |
| 18 | If the following questions have not been answered by the time you start your new job , make sure you have the answers as quickly as possible . |
| 19 | She became close to both women and , although she still saw her mother from time to time and still has a very strong relationship with her that has not been diminished by the divorce , a special bond was forged with the two older women . |
| 20 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) . |
| 21 | They give us a vivid idea of what the lending libraries would be like if the popular mass-circulation libraries had not been crushed by the public libraries in their politically motivated post-war form . |
| 22 | The Chinese room had so far not been touched by Sara or her decorators . |
| 23 | This right of access to the Court has not been exercised by many third States , but could failure to deposit a non-party declaration with the Registrar of the Court be taken as non-acceptance of the right so that it could no longer be claimed ? |
| 24 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) . |
| 25 | Intelligence sources in West Germany say that efforts to stop the current wave of IRA attacks have not been hampered by rivalries and that different organisations have been co-operating well together . |
| 26 | Whilst investigations were being carried out , it has emerged that the premises had not been inspected by an E H O for over five years . |
| 27 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 28 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 29 | The alleyways were scored with deep trenches down which the water ran when it rained ; or would have run had its passage not been blocked by heaps of refuse , dung and animal guts , behind which the water collected in stagnant pools , above which mosquitoes hung in a cloud . |
| 30 | Who has not been cheered by the song of a robin or thrush , the sight of a kingfisher or the flickering patterns made by a rising flock of lapwings against a dark winter sky , and not felt the better for the experience ? |