Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [be] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Dennis case was by no means unusual : many of those employed had encountered some form of what they perceived as racialism in the transition from school to work . |
| 3 | CME trading is by open outcry and all trades are cleared and guaranteed by the CME clearing house . |
| 4 | Although the Council of Ireland proposal was by no means an open door to a united Ireland it would be enough to concentrate loyalist voters in opposition to the new proposals . |
| 5 | In the Bundestag approval was by 442 votes to 47 with three abstentions . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ The only way he 'll get back in the England setup is by getting promotion . ’ |
| 7 | Flimsy-looking in its open-country setting , the new Fangdale Beck box is by no means alone in looking miserably incongruous . |
| 8 | Lancaster Polytechnic was by the end of the 1960s one of the premier public sector institutions , with one in six of all CNAA degrees ( more than any other college or polytechnic ) . |
| 9 | ‘ What your map may not show is that the only way down to Thira anchorage is by mule-track down a precipitous cliff . |
| 10 | Le Cerf was rightly taken to task for his selective criticisms of Bononcini , 3 but the tonal oddness of Quando ridi is by no means exceptional in Italian music of the period . |
| 11 | The Spaxworth monument is by Edward Marshall ; that at Boughton Aluph is so similar that it must come from the same workshop . |
| 12 | I am comfortable in my maze which is laid out like the one at Hampton Court was by the Great Killer 's chief minister , Cardinal Thomas Wolsey . |
| 13 | But the broad UK pattern is by no means unusual in comparison with other major economies . |
| 14 | The 8 eyelet Air Wear brown was by far the most popular , with the laces drawn through the heel tag & the trousers high enough to reveal this . |
| 15 | Of the three Cambodian resistance factions , the Khmer Rouge is by far the best organised . |
| 16 | The Cantona bit was by far the clearest . |
| 17 | That is to say , the important international conference to take place at Darlington Hall was by then looming ahead of us , leaving little room for indulgence or ‘ beating about the bush ’ . |
| 18 | Still , the Alvarez range is by no means confined to the self-consciously exotic : guitar-wise , there 's the non-scoop AED200 , a more conventional style of guitar which counterbalances the company 's more elaborate ambitions . |
| 19 | In the Volkskammer approval was by 299 votes to 80 with one abstention . |
| 20 | The Tehuana dress is by no means the most decorative variant or the closest to pre-Hispanic forms of clothing . |
| 21 | The only way of effectively cutting out the risks of HIV transmission is by having safer sex with all your partners . |
| 22 | In each case , the Apple offering was demonstrably superior , even though the Macintosh System is by no means everyone 's cup of tea . |
| 23 | The display at Booker airfield is by some of the world 's top stunt fliers . |
| 24 | Yet its original presentation at the Berlin Festival was by no means an unalloyed success . |