Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judge Butler ordered that assets worth £23,950 be confiscated under the 1986 Drugs Trafficking Offences Act with the threat that Laming serve a further 18 months in default . |
| 2 | The Protestants could hope but by no means be certain of what she would do , though they could take comfort from her dramatic gesture on Christmas Day 1558 , when she ordered the bishop celebrating Mass in her chapel not to elevate the host , walking out when he refused , and her even more spectacular gesture on 25 January 1559 when , at the opening of parliament , she told the abbot and monks of Westminster , processing with tapers burning , ‘ Away with these torches ! |
| 3 | Books issued from the library over the year ( 1968 ) totalled 428,712 , of which 142,723 were non-fiction so it could by no means be regarded as dead stock . |
| 4 | Only a secure supply of foreign aid ( over US$1 billion up to 1990 ) will keep the country from going to the wall — and that aid can by no means be guaranteed . |
| 5 | This would by no means be a record . |
| 6 | The fact that Sir William Keith and a handful of others had surreptitiously managed to enter the town could by no means be claimed to be a relief and succour for the besieged . |
| 7 | However , the problem can by no means be so readily dismissed . |
| 8 | Military adventures abroad that extend for any length of time depend on the legislature being willing to provide the necessary funding and the Senate 's approval of treaties can , by no means be taken for granted . |
| 9 | The Education Act ( Scotland ) , making education compulsory for children from five to thirteen , had only just been passed in 1872 , and the capacity to read complicated copy could by no means be assumed in all girls ( or indeed boys ) even from " respectable artisans " " families , as is illustrated by the remarks of Mr McCrie , the owner of a paper factory , reported in the Edinburgh Daily Review in January 1873 . |
| 10 | But " the heavy work of carrying type in which men alone are employed " , could by no means be described as skilled work . |
| 11 | el-Kefevi of the early sources even places him in Edirne , writing that he was appointed by Murad II to one of the Uc Serefeli medreses there in 855/1451 It is only right to emphasize , however , that negative evidence of this sort the fact that an appointment is not mentioned-is not a wholly dependable guide when dealing with the since it can by no means be relied upon to provide a complete account of a scholar 's career . |
| 12 | These various lines of reasoning have been challenged by , amongst others , the New Cambridge School which suggests that the relationships between the public sector and economic management may by no means be so simple . |
| 13 | However , it can by no means be described as a complete model of depression . |
| 14 | But Waterloo Boy should by no means be written off . |
| 15 | To work all year and then watch your entire flock of sheep be killed by a long savage winter , as happened in Malham in 1940 when drifts ten and twenty feet deep covered the moor of Spiggot Hill and Tarn Moss , must be cruelty itself . |
| 16 | So the question to be asked is how can the authoring of multimedia be taken out of the hands of technical experts such as computer programmers and be placed firmly in the control of the content , applications and creative experts ? |
| 17 | Relevance of information.cannot be decided without careful thought . |
| 18 | On 28 January 1992 the justices made orders that two boys should live with their father until the age of 16 and that the father 's costs of £7,171.50 be paid by Hillingdon London Borough Council . |
| 19 | And could n't a younger , elected body of people be even more effective ? |
| 20 | ‘ After careful thought it was decided that a final dividend of 1.6p be recommended , ’ the board stated , ‘ making a dividend of 9p for the year . |
| 21 | ‘ After careful thought it was decided that a final dividend of 1.6p be recommended , ’ the board stated , ‘ making a dividend of 9p for the year . |
| 22 | How , for example , will the desire for free access to data be squared with the increasing institutional imperatives to make money from information resources ? |