Example sentences of "that by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By mid-June , the projection of the opinion polls was already suggesting that the majority favouring a measure of divorce legislation was declining so rapidly that by the time of the poll , the noes would have it . |
| 2 | In an interview with Mark Paytress in 1988 Leonard stated that by the age of six he was already acquainted with rudimentary Judaism and recalled being deeply touched by the stirring language and imagery of the Bible - in English and Hebrew . |
| 3 | Sheets are usually 300mm ( 12in ) square , and are often sold in packs of five or 10 ; the best way of estimating quantities is to work out the area to be covered , and to divide that by the coverage figure given on the pack , which will tell you how many packs to buy . |
| 4 | In 1986 , J. Hillis Miller , than whom no one is better placed to judge , told the Modern Language Association of America that by the mid-1980s critical theory had shifted from invoking ‘ language ’ as a prime foundational term to a cluster of words which included ‘ history ’ , ‘ politics ’ , ‘ society ’ , and ‘ culture ’ . |
| 5 | AMERICA ‘ Latest estimates show that by the year 2010 , the USA will be a Japanese-owned country speaking Spanish . |
| 6 | The research , carried out over 30 years by the joint directors of the Child Development Research Unit at Nottingham University , shows that two-thirds of babies are smacked before the age of one , that three-quarters of four-year-olds are smacked once a week or more , and that by the age of seven , 22 per cent have been hit with implements . |
| 7 | And the chances are that by the time the market picks up again in 1991 we will be back to the 1983 figure . |
| 8 | It was evident that by the end of the seventies Britain would be self-sufficient in oil and was likely to remain so , depending on depletion policy , until at least the end of the century . |
| 9 | But he also remembered that by the time he left school he was ‘ a thoroughly political animal ’ . |
| 10 | In many countries this process had a cumulative impact throughout the 1970s so that by the end of that decade the difference between the price paid to farmers for a crop and the price charged to distributors was highly inequitable . |
| 11 | Veyrat promises that by the time the first of 20 £40,000 sports cars are built by June 1001 , weight will still be under 2000lb and acceleration electrifying . |
| 12 | The pain was becoming so intense that by the end of the day she could hardly grip her scissors . |
| 13 | ( Mind you , if you had extrapolated the trend of Dixons sales in the mid-80s , you would have concluded that by the year 2020 we would be spending every penny of our income on consumer electronics . ) |
| 14 | Nottingham Crown Court was told that by the age of nine weeks , the child had fractures to both collar bones , both legs and an arm as well as a broken skull . |
| 15 | The group maintains that by the time Mr Outhwaite agreed to take on the US risks , the dangers of asbestosis were already known : a Lloyd 's working party had been set up in 1980 to look at the issue . |
| 16 | It is possible that by the mid-1990s — barring a few suburban services — Canada will become the first industrialised country to abolish passenger trains completely . |
| 17 | He was the first European to win a Masters title and the difference between him doing that and Tony Jacklin winning the US Open in 1970 is that by the Eighties there were other talents ready to be inspired by the Ballesteros achievement . |
| 18 | No more going public and imagining that by the gesture alone you 'll be ‘ improving ’ matters . |
| 19 | Perhaps its remoteness has been its saving grace , coupled with the fact that by the nineteenth century the Pinney family who had built it deemed it too small and dim to live in and moved to their other house of Racedown , a mile up the road . |
| 20 | The only problem was that by the time you had finished the slide show at the end of the evening you were covered from fingertips to armpits in coloured ink and oil and all the gunge associated with it . |
| 21 | Adobe reckons that by the end of 1990 more than 40m copies of its type-faces were in use . |
| 22 | Tim Congdon , chief economist at Gerrard and National , a discount house , believes that by the end of the century that 5% gap could have trebled . |
| 23 | In Hebrews 2.9 we read : ‘ But we see Jesus , who for a little while was made lower than the angels , crowned with glory and honour because of the suffering of death , so that by the grace of God he might taste death for every one . ’ |
| 24 | Amongst the great majority , the faith of earlier centuries persisted , at least outwardly ; indeed , if we look for a movement of thought and feeling that by the end of the century had penetrated into every class of society except the highest , we shall find it in the revival of ‘ vital religion ’ , or ‘ enthusiasm ’ , as it was also called . |
| 25 | It is therefore true to say that by the mid-1930s , the Labour Party was truly , as it had never been before , the party of the working class . |
| 26 | The report found that by the end of April this year , ADAS had not agreed a corporate plan with the Ministry of Agriculture covering both the service 's commercial and public good work . |
| 27 | Many observers believe that by the time he steps down in Brussels , at the end of 1992 , most small Irish farmers will have accepted his pension plan and he can return as the hero of rural Ireland . |
| 28 | The Christians believed that by the death of Jesus , the suffering servant of Isaiah , God had formed a new covenant not only with the Jews but with all peoples of the earth . |
| 29 | One non-commissioned officer , writing home , said he presumed that by the time his letter arrived ‘ the bells throughout the whole of Germany would be announcing the victory over the mightiest enemy of civilization . |
| 30 | Even so , there can be little doubt that by the middle of the war , the hold of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ was among German youth , too , in a process of disintegration . |