Example sentences of "[prep] [prep] [noun] [vb base] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For of course Aragorn and the others , including Frodo , are in their feelings of confusion and meaninglessness absolutely wrong — ‘ infatuated ’ , ‘ bewildered ’ , drowning in a bog of mere events , caught in a strangler 's net of wyrd . |
| 2 | These non-relevant documents are frequently referred to as noise Notice that it would be possible to improve recall until every relevant document is retrieved by scanning the entire document collection , but such perfect recall ( that is , retrieving every relevant document ) would be accompanied by a drop in the proportion of relevant documents found . |
| 3 | It is by no means clear that the process of financial innovation has run its course . |
| 4 | It is by no means clear that the Labour Party would receive little support in Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | For example , the Altrincham governors could have argued that there was a safety risk in the girls wearing scarves in the laboratory or workshop — although it is by no means clear that they would have succeeded on this basis . |
| 6 | However , the theory also points out that Etruscan kings are required in the lineage of Roman kings so it is by no means clear that the Romans who emerged out of the Etruscan shadows in the late sixth-century were true descendants of Romulus himself . |
| 7 | While progressive Labour councils declared their intentions to address the expectations of women , of black people and disabled people , it was by no means clear that they would do so in relation to lesbians and gays . |
| 8 | This is a convenient fiction that allows us to carry out research on non-human species , but it is by no means clear that it is true . |
| 9 | On the other hand , it is by no means clear that all ‘ corporatist arrangements ’ involve the exercise of public functions by non-governmental bodies , and to the extent that they do not they remain beyond the scope of public law . |
| 10 | Thus , to put the point at its mildest , it is by no means clear that the general abolition of competition is desirable , that the alternative of centrally planned provision and allocation will offer a more sensitive and efficient response to consumers ' demands and wishes , or a better means of deploying resources . |
| 11 | For while the health and safety , and the prospective redundancy of its members , are the union 's business as of generally recognised right it is by no means clear that an industrial strategy that was anything more than a slogan would be . |
| 12 | The teacher found that four could read Messrs Nelson 's Shilling Book , six the Sixpenny Book , and ten only the Threepenny Book " With the " board schools " in their infancy , it was by no means clear that it would have been possible to recruit many girls of working-class origin into the trade in the early 1870s . |
| 13 | While he would see in these neglected traditions a democratic imperative , it is by no means clear that this should be so . |
| 14 | Planning and communication can take place through abstracted techniques of management control but it is by no means clear that the technical reason implicit in the use of these techniques serves to substitute for more substantively based judgements and planning . |
| 15 | It is by no means clear that many newcomers are even aware of the feelings that they arouse from time to time in the local population . |
| 16 | It is by no means clear that working class girls regarded the constituents of marital happiness as being substantially different from those prized by middle class girls , but the realities of economic constraints meant that their priorities were ordered rather differently . |
| 17 | It is by no means clear that the words ‘ at starting ’ mean ‘ on marriage with Ellen Nicholl , ’ or with anyone else . |
| 18 | In particular , it is by no means clear that the problem of rooting the tree of life is now solved . |
| 19 | It is by no means clear that the Church and Queen position of 1710 – 14 was any more popular in the nation at large than had been the Church and King position of either 1660 – 2 or 1681 – 5 . |