Example sentences of "it [is] by [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it 's by no means only er , arising from the erm , need to get on with the business of the council , some of the work that we 're facing at the present moment has been forced on us er , through no fault of our own because of Government action . |
| 2 | There is , however , no firm basis for such confidence and , as will be seen to be significant in relation to notions of parliamentary sovereignty , it is by no means universally accepted that it is only the characteristics of the Parliament of England which survived these constitutional upheavals . |
| 3 | As Lindblom has pointed out , however , it is by no means wholly destroyed , since ‘ [ m ] onopoly weakens responses to popular control , but it neither eliminates a response or leads to a perverse one … |
| 4 | It is by no means altogether improbable , for instance , that some ordinary person on the periphery of a murder should be so disturbed by some apparent contradiction of character that he or she feels obliged to talk about it to others involved , and thus gradually comes to unearth the secret of character you have put at the heart of your story . |
| 5 | While the state has to have some autonomy to fulfil its role , it is by no means completely independent . |
| 6 | Some doubt has been expressed about the method of spread of this disease since it is by no means always found in the sexual partners of infected individuals . |
| 7 | As Professor Simmonds has shown , it is by no means always clear what effect railways had . |
| 8 | Once you have lists where you are confident that you are hearing the tone correctly , these can then be used as drills following the same procedure as before , i.e. listening and mimicking down and across the lists : It is by no means always possible to find a high frame preceding the place of substitution . |
| 9 | It is quite easy to see , intuitively , that a crack is a nasty dangerous thing to have about the house but it is by no means so obvious that a step can cause a bad stress concentration . |
| 10 | It is by no means so simple for the insurer who is ignorant of that until in some senses it is too late . |
| 11 | It is by no means so obvious what the input and output of a pragmatic theory should be . |
| 12 | While this is a complex area to tackle and it is by no means fully charted , it is worth looking at with some learners — for instance those who need to conduct business and to attend meetings in English . |
| 13 | It is heavily influenced by Richard Strauss and Wagner , but it is by no means absurdly derivative : in fact Schillings has quite a flair for arresting harmonic ideas . |
| 14 | For instance ( using the familiar Venn diagrams ) it will be said that the underlined phrase of ( 11 ) ( which is , incidentally , a zoologically correct statement ) owes its restrictive quality to the fact that there is an intersection between circle a , standing for the class of piranhas , and circle b , standing for the class of vegetarian creatures , and this intersection represents the beings denoted by the subject of the sentence : ( 11 ) vegetarian piranhas can be found in the Amazon ( 12 ) However , such implications are incorrect ; it is by no means necessarily true that the property instantiated by a restrictive adjective is to be ascribed to the entity qualified . |
| 15 | The IQ rating provides some early indication of the presence of mental handicap in a child , although it is by no means entirely satisfactory . |