Example sentences of "[noun sg] be by " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are importing , the cheapest and most straightforward methods of settlement are by international payments in currency or sterling , and Midland offers three options : Priority Payments , where speed of funds transfer is of paramount importance ; Mail Payments , where there is less urgency ; and Bankers Drafts , which are particularly appropriate for low priority , low value payments . |
| 2 | The two courses of defence are by contact and systemic fungicides , such as Maneb , Zineb , Dithane , Orthocide and others . |
| 3 | In written language , however , instances of quoted speech without explicit attribution are by no means unusual . |
| 4 | Most accounts of the methods of inspection are by retired or practising HMIs , although those on the receiving end do describe the experience . |
| 5 | Into Paradise are by now well established as favourites on the Dublin live circuit . |
| 6 | ( Some 15 other states where the Moral Majority are by no means the silent majority , had hoped to pass similar laws , but it is now assumed that the case will go to appeal and eventually reach the Supreme Court ) . |
| 7 | The regimes under which nationalised industries function are by no means the only examples of vertical devolution under the United Kingdom constitution at present . |
| 8 | A similar chronology can be seen at Wroxeter , whereas as at Leicester the Forum is Hadrianic and completed in AD 129 ( Atkinson , 1942 ) , the baths were not in use until the Antonine period , although there are definite traces of an earlier public building ( Kenyon , 1940 , 189 ) , but its date and function are by no means certain . |
| 9 | The ‘ Cicerones ’ will be a team of experts drawn from the universities of Venice and Udine , and the electronics are by Telesia , part of Iacorossi . |
| 10 | Some reservations about this view have already been suggested , but it was acknowledged that elements of bargaining are by no means absent from the British scene . |
| 11 | The ceiling frescos in the chancel are by V. V. Reiner and the carvings of 1636–7 are by M. Schönherr . |
| 12 | British viewers of Manhattan Cable are by now familiar with Robin Byrd , whose late-night TV show consists of her reclining in a string bikini , a microphone clipped somewhat clumsily on to one breast , exhorting viewers to ‘ lie back and get comfortable ’ while various folk bare their pimply bottoms and everything else in an on camera strip show . |
| 13 | The two types of interview are by no means in opposition ; they are different tools for different tasks . |
| 14 | Notts County Football Club are by far the greatest team the world has ever seen . |
| 15 | The opposition are by no means confident that the military leadership will hand over power once the results are through . |
| 16 | This , as well as the paintings on the organ loft are by V. Sychra . |
| 17 | The pickups in the Sunburst are by Seymour Duncan , with a Jeff Beck in the bridge position and a ‘ 59 in the neck . |
| 18 | Height and weight are by no means the only differences . |
| 19 | Lighting and setting are by Robert Cohan ( who has known war experience ) and there 's no doubt of the work 's deep sincerity and compassion for the American soldiers of its cast . |
| 20 | This date and this gap are by no means fortuitous . |
| 21 | Perhaps the only two successful threats of action were by the water-workers in 1983 and the NUM over the Coal Board 's threat to close uneconomic pits in January 1981 . |
| 22 | Is it not the case that such a religion is by its very nature harmful to the cause of human equality ? |
| 23 | The National Viewers ' and Listeners ' Association is by no means the only ‘ moral entrepreneurial ’ group of this sort , although it is one of the most long-standing , and it has , through Mary Whitehouse , generally achieved a higher profile than many of the others . |
| 24 | This research is based on the belief that one of the most practical ways of improving the effectiveness of Board-level thinking is by the increased use of the strategic decision support tools and methodologies now available and being developed . |
| 25 | Where the defendant 's entry is by authority of law as opposed to the plaintiff 's authority and the defendant subsequently abuses that right , then he becomes a trespasser ab initio ( from the moment of entry ) ( Six Carpenters Case ( 1610 ) 8 Co Rep 146A ) . |
| 26 | The economic system of the Old Testament is by modern standards a curious mixture : a strong emphasis on private property rights circumscribed by certain laws ; a simple welfare system and income redistribution mechanisms , some fiscal , others not ; and restrictions on the accumulation of capital . |
| 27 | The most effective means of maintaining healthy stock is by maintaining healthy water . |
| 28 | The script is by the Irish director Jim Sheridan , who started the ball rolling with ‘ My Left Foot ’ and ‘ The Field ’ and it stars Ireland 's most internationally renowned leading man , Gabriel Byrne . |
| 29 | The script is by local writer Shane Connaughton but the director is Scotsman Gilles Mackinnon . |
| 30 | The facade of Eagle Warehouse is by the Glasgow architect Alexander Kirkland , who built the pedestrian suspension bridge over the Clyde at Carlton Place and became Chicago 's Commissioner of Public Buildings in 1877 . |