Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] be by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our imperatives or priorities are by no means entirely congruent , but at least they overlap . |
| 2 | Traveller 's or Eurocheques are by far the safest way to carry money as they are easily cashed for a small service charge and the value is recoverable if they are stolen or lost . |
| 3 | The most usual method of sending out information to more than a few broadcasting stations or publications is by post . |
| 4 | One of the most effective ways to recruit and encourage members and supporters is by direct mail . |
| 5 | Literary careers can be founded on the impersonation and adulation of privileged behaviour ; but the literary works which have been written and inspired by English snobs and sports are by no means all boastful or complicit . |
| 6 | Telecom Gold requires a PC and a suitable modem ( which many offices will have anyway ) and costs are by subscription ( £40 plus £5.50 a month ) with services billed on a ‘ pay as you go ’ basis . |
| 7 | The political attitudes articulated by journalists and writers were by no means either homogeneous or uniformly hostile to the government . |
| 8 | As David St John Thomas wrote in his evocative memoir of the British country station : ‘ In most areas for at least two full generations all important comings and goings were by train . ’ |
| 9 | The problem of devising systems of incentives and sanctions that promote good performance from workers and managers is by no means unique to the public sector . |
| 10 | ‘ People think that ecology means a return to the countryside , cows and sheep and trees and that sort of thing , but the conservation of energy is just as important in the towns , and back-to-backs are by their nature more energy efficient , ’ says Mr Lowman . |
| 11 | Our discussion of macroeconomic management emphasizes that the link between instruments and objectives is by no means direct or precise . |
| 12 | This was a highly polemical school ; its literary triumphs belong as much to the article or essay as to narrative ; and its most private griefs and imaginings are by now part of the national and international consciousness . |
| 13 | Old feuds of race were diminishing , rivalries and prejudices were by degrees fading out.Such frequent and such intimate relations had thus been established between nations , that it seemed as if they must soon unite in one family , in one single federal state . |
| 14 | But in the main , the movement today of materials and components is by pallets and forklifts . |
| 15 | There was no famine and for most urban residents conditions of life improved during the 1920s — 1930s , but cities were by no means the havens of wealth and prosperity that hostile or covetous agricultural ideologues made them out to be . |
| 16 | But tape-recordings are by no means freely available as a resource to all . |
| 17 | For an update of what I have in stock you can give me a ring anytime , but visits are by appointment only at the moment . |
| 18 | But agents are by their nature controversial . |