Example sentences of "[prep] [det] means [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is far better to follow the analysis of Riccobono ( who was not by any means a radical interpolationist ) and admit that the text as it stands is not how Ulpian left it . |
| 2 | Therefore , the plan itself has a character of its own ; it is not by any means a more or less ‘ complete ’ plan of a developed socialist state of society . |
| 3 | Not by any means a bad film , but overrated . |
| 4 | It was n't by any means a straightforward process . |
| 5 | I suspect that the rejection of the £7m offer by the All England Club for the land of the Wimbledon Sports Club opposite is not by any means the end of the story . |
| 6 | Nor is it by any means the case that the nouveau roman is automatically considered in France as emblematic of postmodernism : this remains a largely imported concept , more frequently raised in discussion concerning the wider cultural condition . |
| 7 | Putting these together , it would mean that a life-saving service would not have by any means the highest priority if the lives saved were few or were ones of mere existence . |
| 8 | The survival of the fittest meant that the struggle for life condemned millions of living creatures to starvation or violent death from many causes , not by any means the least important of which was the provision of food for other species . |
| 9 | But that was not by any means the end of the matter . |
| 10 | But its use is not by any means the main function of the books in which it may be necessary , and there is little to be said about it . |