Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] by [art] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tory paternalists of the 1950s seemed dated by the time of the Heath government in 1970–4 . |
| 2 | By 1372 England had suffered a naval defeat at La Rochelle and lost most of the gains which it had made by the time of the treaty of Brétigny ; in the following year much of Brittany was lost ; in 1375 another spectacular naval defeat was suffered ; and in 1376 and 1377 the south and east coasts of England were alerted under threats of invasion or raids . |
| 3 | the plaintiff had died by the time of the hearing . |
| 4 | What the plaintiff was told is not clear , as the surgeon had died by the time of the trial . |
| 5 | Top of my list of ‘ possibles ’ is Colin Stephens , who had a poor spell last season after Llanelli 's loss against Neath but had recovered by the time of the Schweppes Cup final . |
| 6 | As a class they had disappeared by the time of the Domesday survey . |
| 7 | The agenda here had changed by the time of Margaret Thatcher 's election victory promise to do something about ‘ those inner cities ’ . |