Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] be [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our imperatives or priorities are by no means entirely congruent , but at least they overlap . |
| 2 | Literary careers can be founded on the impersonation and adulation of privileged behaviour ; but the literary works which have been written and inspired by English snobs and sports are by no means all boastful or complicit . |
| 3 | The political attitudes articulated by journalists and writers were by no means either homogeneous or uniformly hostile to the government . |
| 4 | The problem of devising systems of incentives and sanctions that promote good performance from workers and managers is by no means unique to the public sector . |
| 5 | Our discussion of macroeconomic management emphasizes that the link between instruments and objectives is by no means direct or precise . |
| 6 | There was no famine and for most urban residents conditions of life improved during the 1920s — 1930s , but cities were by no means the havens of wealth and prosperity that hostile or covetous agricultural ideologues made them out to be . |
| 7 | But tape-recordings are by no means freely available as a resource to all . |