Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] by [art] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The village children were reading at least some words by the time they were six . |
| 2 | It was like an old dishcloth by the time I was finished . |
| 3 | If the UK government has not signed the Agreement on Social Policy by the time it comes into force , it will be possible for the Commission to present a revised proposal including those mentioned above , which could then be adopted by a qualified majority of the eleven signatory states [ see page 34 ] . |
| 4 | All the social sciences are predicated on the notion that individuals are not isolated like so many Robinson Crusoes — who , in any case , was already a social creature by the time he was shipwrecked on the island — but are related to others in complex ways . |
| 5 | [ aside ] I 'll nip this bud by the time it begins to open and place it in my bosom for a year or two at least . |
| 6 | No matter how fast they travelled , the corridor never seemed to get any shorter and Endill thought he would be an old man by the time they reached the other end . |
| 7 | There must have been dozens of them in our back garden by the time I was seven , though my parents had no idea they were living next to a bird cemetery . |
| 8 | She had settled there to some extent by the time I was released and I did n't think it was good to disrupt her again . |
| 9 | It would have been a long walk to here , and no doubt some other person would have been offering a dubious lift by the time she arrived . |
| 10 | Although Gould had wound up two of his principal publications by the time he left England — the concluding part 22 of Birds of Europe was scheduled for July 1837 , and the third and final part of the Trogons appeared on or before 14 March 1838 — Prince was charged with seeing to the publicity and the production of the plates for Darwin 's Zoology of the Beagle , and the printing and colouring of the illustrations for the second part of Icones Avium on the species of Caprimulgidae , or goatsuckers . |
| 11 | Most of the electrics went off the board with damp and the violent motion by the time we thankfully dropped anchor off Clovelly near the Bristol Class Lifeboat on station there . |
| 12 | I was only gon na say we 're , we will probably have a much clearer idea by the time we get to the results . |
| 13 | And Alfred P Sloan , who pioneered decentralization at General Motors in the early 1920s , lived to see it become international corporate practice by the time he published his best-selling memoirs in 1964 . |
| 14 | It is interesting to note how Trade Indemnity , which has been an active user of this Z-Score approach for many years , used the technique as part of its overall risk assessment procedures to provide advance warning , allowing it to reduce exposure to MCC to a nominal sum by the time it failed . |
| 15 | This snow will have cost you a small fortune in wasted hay by the time it thaws , but it was the right thing to do , it 's saved your stock . ’ |
| 16 | An Arab can never know the exact date of his birth according to our calendar , for if he was born on 12th January , that day in the Muslim calendar might be 12th January of the previous year by the time he was twenty or twenty-one , owing to the shorter months . |
| 17 | He became a successful schoolmaster , through the kindly help of a family friend , and was a married man with three daughters by the time he walked to Cambridge in 1748 to become an undergraduate at Sidney Sussex College . |
| 18 | A premise is that the infant has been exposed to virtually all possible feelings by the time he or she goes to school . |
| 19 | Sub-Prior Richard , decent , comfortable , placid man , marshalled the other ranks out to their ordinary labours , and to the refectory shortly afterwards for dinner , and by his own mildly stupid calm had calmed his flock into a perfectly normal appetite by the time they went to wash their hands before the meal . |
| 20 | Nearly twenty thousand dogs have entered the one hundred and first Crufts Show , which is expected to pull in a hundred thousand vistors by the time it closes on Sunday . |
| 21 | It was crowded all through the day and Melanie and Aunt Margaret tottered on burning feet by the time they turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ closed ’ . |
| 22 | In terms of closeness to hearing children 's reading , deaf children are only within striking distance between the ages of 7 and 8 years and thereafter suffer significant decline in relative performance which produces very poor performance by the time they leave school . |
| 23 | ‘ We were all very great friends by the time they had left , ’ said Mrs Shapland . |
| 24 | They were all the wrong shades for me ( for her too ) and I looked like a tired clown by the time she 'd finished , but on my previous appearance anything would have been an improvement . |
| 25 | And he was likely in poor shape by the time he got to Norway . |
| 26 | ‘ Drink that soup by the time I get back and possibly , just possibly , I 'll give you a mild pain-killer . |
| 27 | Lanfranc 's silence about existing practices has sometimes been interpreted as a sign that the old order had fallen into complete neglect by the time he arrived at Canterbury . |
| 28 | Richard Gough , for example , had 15 full caps by the time he was 19 . |
| 29 | It was growing dark by the time they reached the narrow boat . |
| 30 | This means that students must be able to achieve and demonstrate success in Compact terms by the time they reach the compulsory school leaving age at the end of the fifth year of secondary education . |