Example sentences of "[is] [prep] [prep] means [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He too may be trying to mislead Pooh , by sighing deliberately when ( he believes ) he believes he 's by no means out of thistles . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | The balance between gaining and losing is by no means even ; many infrequent users of search are seen as prime poaching grounds , whereas companies constantly recruiting may not necessarily be losing people , but experiencing rapid growth . |
| 5 | However , the system is by no means universally applied despite the existence of national guidelines and the sanctions against offenders are not nearly tough enough to deter all those whose standards are low or whose intentions in entering a profitable market are dishonourable . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Many experts argue that the Persian knot makes it easier to produce intricate , curvilinear designs by enabling the weaver to tie more knot to the square inch , but this theory is by no means universally accepted in the carpet trade . |
| 8 | While the state has to have some autonomy to fulfil its role , it is by no means completely independent . |
| 9 | The mutual interdependence between rural and urban areas which characterized the prewar period is by no means completely gone , but it is waning fast . |
| 10 | The boy always having adventures and escapades while the girl looks on admiringly , tells him to be careful or stays to play with dolls , is by no means automatically true of the day-to-day play activities of young children . |
| 11 | Fax machines have been around for many years and the obvious benefit of being able to transmit documents and graphics by telephone is by no means newly perceived . |
| 12 | This is by no means invariably the case , however . |
| 13 | As we have now seen , the latter supposition is by no means invariably true , and for this ( and other reasons which we shall come to later ) the ranges of adjectives that can be found in the two positions are actually substantially different . |
| 14 | But the argument is by no means over . |
| 15 | The New Moon in your opposite sign of Scorpio on the 29th should prove exciting and rather eventful as far as one involvement or partnership is concerned — and obviously 1989 is by no means over yet , not by a long chalk . |
| 16 | If you do manage it , the fight is by no means over . |
| 17 | Although comments were requested by 30 November 1992 , the process is by no means over and I therefore urge all members with a view on this matter to write without delay to Desmond Wright , Secretary to the Auditing Committee at Moorgate Place . |
| 18 | Your job is by no means over when the advertising begins to appear . |
| 19 | looks at its long history , in which the last five years have been arguably the most dramatic , part of a transformation which is by no means over . |
| 20 | As the argument over tax bases and tax rates is by no means over , it appears appropriate to comment upon some of the principal proposals . |
| 21 | The mood of Tory rebels was reflected by James Cran , MP for Beverley , who said : ‘ Believe me , this battle is by no means over yet . |
| 22 | But the emergency is by no means over . |
| 23 | The difficulty with all these policy areas is that the effect on economic efficiency is by no means clear cut : there are nearly always benefits and losses that have to be weighed . |
| 24 | The distinction between a racial group as opposed to a religious one is by no means clear cut . |
| 25 | More recently , there has been a flood of more conventional sexual harassment claims brought by women , including women occupying executive roles in large companies ; this is by no means exclusively a problem of women on the factory floor or in the typing pool who have reacted adversely to what their male colleagues and superiors may have tried to excuse as ‘ a bit of harmless fun ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Its narrator and chief human presence is by no means straightforwardly a victim , and the difference between oppressor and oppressed can be hard to identify . |
| 28 | But whilst Best is certainly under pressure to continue England 's winning ways into the Five Nations Championship , the realist with the acid tongue and the blunt manners , which have been the bane of countless committeemen and lacklustre trainers over the years , is by no means just a dour pragmatist . |
| 29 | Moreover , the concept of the Created God is by no means rigidly unchangeable . |
| 30 | Skill in letter-writing is by no means evenly distributed among the population and letter-writers can not be said to be representative of the general population . |