Sentence examples for were by itself from inspiring English sources

"To hear this noise as we do," Leibniz says, "we must hear the parts which make up this whole, that is the noise of each wave, although each of these little noises makes itself known only when combined confusedly with all the others, and would not be noticed if the wave which made it were by itself".

An encyclopaedia does not come into being by itself.

This is by itself nothing new: think razors and blades.

That is by itself a source of uncertainty.

Sixteen stone is, by itself, evidence of amazing willpower.

Vatican protocol is by itself of little interest.

Each school is better than it would have been by itself".

Biologists have, however, long debated whether niche-specialisation is by itself enough to promote such radiation.

A stronger dollar is by itself a tightening of monetary policy.

"The best way to drink it is by itself," he said.

This expansion and refinement of the technologies of containment is, by itself, rarely sufficient.