Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the UK there are two levels of payment ( further modified for sheep only according to breed ) more arbitrarily linked to handicap levels . |
| 2 | Turn left for 300yds then take the road on the right . |
| 3 | MCI Communications Corp , the Washington-based phone company , won two contracts worth $30m all told to provide its Vnet voice service and HyperStream Frame Relay data service to the US Congress . |
| 4 | A large part of the trouble lay in the overlapping and by no means clearly defined responsibilities for operations in Vietnam between US forces operating in support of the Chinese in the ‘ China Theater ’ , and Southeast Asia Command : more particularly , the disagreements between the US General Wedemeyer and Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten . |
| 5 | Hitler was by no means altogether excluded from the angry storm of criticism which arose from the ‘ crucifix action ’ . |
| 6 | It is often claimed that hypertension is prevalent in diabetic subjects ( Christlieb , 1982 ) , although the evidence for such a statement is conflicting and by no means universally accepted . |
| 7 | There is , however , no firm basis for such confidence and , as will be seen to be significant in relation to notions of parliamentary sovereignty , it is by no means universally accepted that it is only the characteristics of the Parliament of England which survived these constitutional upheavals . |
| 8 | If there is a theoretical argument justifying the view that microelectronics is a job-killer , it is less obvious and more complex than usually supposed , and by no means universally accepted . |
| 9 | Many experts argue that the Persian knot makes it easier to produce intricate , curvilinear designs by enabling the weaver to tie more knot to the square inch , but this theory is by no means universally accepted in the carpet trade . |
| 10 | While the terms " acrolect " , " mesolect " , " basilect " are , as Wells writes , " a convenient terminology " , it needs to be borne in mind that substantial , and by no means universally accepted , theoretical claims underlie the continuum hypothesis itself . |
| 11 | However , the system is by no means universally applied despite the existence of national guidelines and the sanctions against offenders are not nearly tough enough to deter all those whose standards are low or whose intentions in entering a profitable market are dishonourable . |
| 12 | The establishment of DATEC was by no means universally welcomed in the art world , many artists and designers being strongly opposed to links with TEC ; the Association of Art Institutions , for example , urged the DES to recognize it as the appropriate organization to represent all aspects of art and design education . |
| 13 | Fax machines have been around for many years and the obvious benefit of being able to transmit documents and graphics by telephone is by no means newly perceived . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As Lindblom has pointed out , however , it is by no means wholly destroyed , since ‘ [ m ] onopoly weakens responses to popular control , but it neither eliminates a response or leads to a perverse one … |
| 16 | This tradition has by no means wholly disappeared , although the power of the shop-stewards movement is now massively reduced by the changes in its traditional locations described above . |
| 17 | The mutual interdependence between rural and urban areas which characterized the prewar period is by no means completely gone , but it is waning fast . |
| 18 | Unlike true appendages , processes of the body-wall are by no means invariably represented by embryonic counterparts ; they may or may not be segmentally arranged , they may be originally paired or unpaired , and more than a single pair is sometimes borne on a segment . |
| 19 | This often though by no means invariably happens with such formations . |
| 20 | The difficulty with all these policy areas is that the effect on economic efficiency is by no means clear cut : there are nearly always benefits and losses that have to be weighed . |
| 21 | The distinction between a racial group as opposed to a religious one is by no means clear cut . |
| 22 | When Queen Elizabeth succeeded her sister Mary in 1558 , the Anglican form of Church government which was restored in place of that of Rome was by no means firmly based . |
| 23 | The established Communist parties , however , although overshadowed at first by the new radicalism , were by no means totally eclipsed by it . |
| 24 | Latin was by no means totally banished from the Lutheran liturgy . |
| 25 | In particular if the external situation is conceived of as changing through time , the phrase " as initially present to the mind " by no means necessarily refers to an earlier state of a real or imaginary referent . |
| 26 | This approach by no means necessarily reflects lack of sympathy for the lot of the least privileged in society . |
| 27 | A greater knowledge of the Russian language , moreover , by no means necessarily implied a weaker attachment to the native language of the nationality in question . |
| 28 | He may then express lower preferences — faute de mieux by definition — for candidates of Party B. But that will by no means necessarily imply any wish for a Party A/Party B coalition . |
| 29 | While this is a complex area to tackle and it is by no means fully charted , it is worth looking at with some learners — for instance those who need to conduct business and to attend meetings in English . |
| 30 | Such familiar materials as hair , leather , skin and bone are by no means fully understood . |