Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us now consider more closely the main positive conclusion Moore reaches by application of his two principles , namely that personal affection and the contemplation of beautiful objects are by far the two most important good things of which we know . |
| 2 | In principle it is impossible because skills are by their nature totally integrated and interactive so that they can not meaningfully be separated into independent parts . |
| 3 | Professor Thomas , head of the Welsh department at the University College of North Wales , Bangor , wrote an updated words of a Welsh legend in Chwedl Taliesin , and the superb illustrations are by Margaret Jones , of Aberystwyth . |
| 4 | Such pairs are by definition nomic correlates . |
| 5 | ‘ The toilets are by the door , madam . ’ |
| 6 | The cap , then , falls within an overall grand vision of chanciness and risk ; Liputin 's teeth are by no means the only things that hang by a thread . |
| 7 | Velcro shoe fastenings are by far the easiest for young hands to deal with . |
| 8 | Moreover , in the humanities and much professional and social science literature , titles are by no means the precise description of the subject matter that one usually expects in Nature ; in a notorious example , an article on information retrieval appeared in the Library Association Record entitled " How golden is your retriever ? " — an article which would greatly puzzle dog fanciers who had turned to the computer for search along these simple lines . |
| 9 | Meetings are by appointment . |
| 10 | The problems of calculating the total energies of such ions are by no means trivial , and important advances in techniques of calculation have been made in the process of developing satisfactory methods . |
| 11 | These colorations are by no means mere curiosities . |
| 12 | And you can find out just what Kenneth Clarke 's budget plans are by watching Central on Tuesday afternoon . |
| 13 | Musicians are by their very naming good — media folk are noisy , rackety , flip . |
| 14 | The practices of organisations in all of the sectors studied suggest that fixed-term contracts are by no means the only way in which short-term contract workers can be recruited . |
| 15 | But tape-recordings are by no means freely available as a resource to all . |
| 16 | If you do decide to offer items to the media , your organisation or client 's own products are by far the best giveaways , for they enable the producer , journalist or researcher to try them out for themselves before featuring or writing about them . |
| 17 | ( 1980 ) point out that statistical classification methods are by their very nature exploratory data-analysis techniques , dependent on the methods used and on a number of arbitrary definitions , and it is therefore inevitable that the results should be seen as a pioneering first attempt , rather than as a polished final product based on the application of well established proven methods . |
| 18 | Those people whose families had moved out from the inner areas still retained some ties with relatives in the inner city , but clearly such ties are by definition weaker in quality than ties with immediate neighbours , and they were dismissed as relatively weak in our inner-city network analysis . |
| 19 | Painkillers are by far the most common drugs prescribed by doctors in Britain . |
| 20 | First , because these interviews by Professor Ian Fells ought to convince producers elsewhere that talking heads are by no means a disaster recipe . |
| 21 | Tuning heads are by Sperzel , the keys being finished in an attractive , satin-finished steel . |
| 22 | As can be seen from Table 7.10 private sector pension funds are by far the largest by asset size , with nearly 68 per cent of the assets of all pension funds . |
| 23 | Lyons would argue that his statements are only about ‘ language-systems ’ ( Lyons , 1977 ) and that the paralinguistic aspects are by definition not included in these and so are irrelevant to the point about ‘ objectivity ’ . |
| 24 | Then , on CD , Altarus released Ronald Stevenson 's 80-minute Passacaglia on DSCH ( — again an LP re-issue ) and Sorabji 's four-hour Opus Clavicembalisticum ( ) ; two gigantic acts of faith in two gigantic pieces of music ( the performances are by Ronald Stevenson and John Ogdon respectively ) . |
| 25 | ‘ These words are by Stalin ! |
| 26 | The words are by a Scot , John Henry Mackay . |
| 27 | Both these books are by black American women writers , writing about black people , I am going to study these books from the aspect of the main characters ' adolescence and how they overcome the trials they face . |
| 28 | Places in those schools are by no means exclusively reserved for the offspring of the devout , but the churches might have reconsidered that policy if the Government had , in effect , continued to place a block on their expansion plans . |
| 29 | Co-managers are by Hambrecht & Quist and Wessels , Arnold & Henderson . |
| 30 | Such fissures were by no means peculiar to the middle classes of the Russian Empire : analogous divisions can be found throughout Europe . |