Example sentences of "means [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The existence of both species illustrates the fact that human-machine relations are by no means free of emotional implications , |
| 2 | Comment from all parties is , on balance , favourable , but by no means free from individual criticisms . |
| 3 | Illegitimate children were by no means unusual in those days and Darrel would have been rather pleased with the embarrassment caused either of his old antagonists . |
| 4 | It is by no means uncommon for preliminary results in abstracts to differ from those achieved finally — indeed , we were surprised that these discrepancies were thought worthy of remark . |
| 5 | It would have to be made to count for far more , and by means familiar to Irish TDs . |
| 6 | Yet Japan was by no means immune from continental influences , and her historical development has been substantially affected by them . |
| 7 | And that leads to the third , less obvious , reason : the market-place itself , to work efficiently , needs consumers who know how prices compare , and who act on that knowledge buying at the right price , not buying if the price is too high for this to have an influence on prices , through traders who set attractive prices competing successfully against traders who set inflated prices , it is by no means necessary for all consumers to be actively price-conscious . |