Example sentences of "[subord] it is by no " in BNC.

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1 Although it is by no means the universal view , some City analysts believe the increase in rates makes a short-lived recession inevitable next year .
2 For example , the Altrincham governors could have argued that there was a safety risk in the girls wearing scarves in the laboratory or workshop — although it is by no means clear that they would have succeeded on this basis .
3 The IQ rating provides some early indication of the presence of mental handicap in a child , although it is by no means entirely satisfactory .
4 Although it is by no means axiomatic , this notion of competitive intelligence usually brings with it an extra dimension , when compared with environmental analysis ( and , to a lesser degree , with issues management and marketing intelligence ) .
5 Although it is by no means certain that the courts would uphold such a contention , groups should nevertheless exercise care in this area .
6 Concentration of employment in a few locations will reduce infrastructural costs and may increase the external economies of scale available to firms and provide support for growth centre strategies for economic development , although it is by no means clear at what scale these advantages become significant ( Moseley 1974 ) .
7 The lack of a single authoritative constitutional document means that it is relatively difficult to point to breaches of the constitution by British governments , although it is by no means impossible , as we shall see below in cases involving national security .
8 However , the theory also points out that Etruscan kings are required in the lineage of Roman kings so it is by no means clear that the Romans who emerged out of the Etruscan shadows in the late sixth-century were true descendants of Romulus himself .
9 In large scale industry ( such as the Automotive Industry ) the use of cordless tools has been steadily increasing in recent years so it is by no means novel technology .
10 Stratospheric chemistry is very complex , involving more than 150 chemical reactions between 50 chemical species , so it is by no means certain that all potential threats to the stratospheric ozone layer are yet known .
11 Further difficulties arise because it is by no means clear what objects the signs are intended to represent , but even if it were , decipherment would still be a very long way off .
12 While Labour seeks to simply snatch the language of one nation from the Tories , the danger here can only grow and it is compounded because it is by no means clear how far a reconstituted and emphatically ‘ un-loony ’ socialism may go in negotiating its own language of toughness on immigration and nationality , even perhaps on humane socialist repatriation . [ … ]
13 Some doubt has been expressed about the method of spread of this disease since it is by no means always found in the sexual partners of infected individuals .
14 I am troubled by the rush of young researchers attempting to prove that females are not inferior to males in such-and-such an ability or such-and-such a trait , especially when it is by no means clear what difference it makes .
15 Its name means , in fact , " little stranger " , though it is by no means small for a brachiopod .
16 But the Prince had , as yet , not decided on the change of residence , for it is by no means sure that even at this stage he had decided on the Empire .
17 The aim of this chapter is to question the subject matter that they so confidently explored , for it is by no means clear what we mean when we raise the prospect of ‘ a history of sexuality ’ .
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