Example sentences of "by [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fabia was up , dressed and down to breakfast by eight the next morning . |
| 2 | Within a few years most of its nominal 100 ships of the line were unfit for sea , although by 1770 a new conflict with Spain over the Falkland Islands seemed likely . |
| 3 | Noting that Bush 's measures envisaged cutting 1,500 land-based missile warheads and further reducing by 2,200 the 3,800 warheads on submarine-launched Trident missiles ( in addition to 1,600 warheads being phased out of submarine-launched Poseiden missiles ) , analysts expected the total number of US warheads to be reduced to 5,300 . |
| 4 | By 1.15 a loose formula for the withdrawal of the strike notices , the continuation of the subsidy for a fortnight and a settlement ‘ on the lines of the [ Samuel ] Report ’ within this period had been worked out . |
| 5 | Although the campaign against apprenticeship brought a renewal of petitioning , by 1838 the Scots abolitionist William Smeal was expressing his disappointment at how ‘ cavalierly ’ petitions which had taken so much effort were received by the Commons . |
| 6 | By 1861 the edge tool and other metal trades employed 253 men , or 32 per cent of the workforce . |
| 7 | Productivity he achieved — by 1925 a third of the films made in Britain came from Stoll 's studios at Cricklewood — but he was never anywhere near achieving his intention to ‘ leave American buyers convinced of England 's ability to deliver the goods . ’ |
| 8 | By 1998 a simple change of platforms in airport style comfort will offer passengers a full range of destinations and , together with the new rail link to the coast , lop an hour off journey times to the continent . |
| 9 | However , by 1998 the kind of sow stalls at Easton Lodge will be prohibited and an alternative method of accommodating the dry sows will need to be provided . |
| 10 | By 1989/90 the Exchequer met only 43.4 per cent , with a further 4 per cent coming from a central grant that reimbursed authorities for part of the rate rebates that they gave to poor households . |
| 11 | By 2025 the population of India will have doubled to more than 1.4 billion and almost caught up with China . |
| 12 | At 11 a.m. a heavy rain of ash was falling , and by 11.20 the air was so thick with ash and pumice dust that the sun was blotted out , and total darkness fell on the city , remaining until 1 p.m . |
| 13 | Similar efficiency programmes were soon seeking to remove ‘ dead wood ’ from the public services ; and by 1935 an American national pension scheme had been enacted by Congress . |
| 14 | By 1935 the infamous Nuremberg laws which deprived Jews of their citizenship had been effected ; with them went the boycotting of their businesses , their harassment in public places ( such as education and law ) , and the first signs of ultimate horror — the moves to be rid of them completely . |
| 15 | In 1931 , there were twelve Student Groups in villages and by 1935 the number had increased to twenty-one . |
| 16 | By 1935 the success of the children 's books made it possible for Ransome to buy a sea-going boat once again . |
| 17 | Most excursions were local but standards improved rapidly and by 1924 there were coach tours from the UK to North Africa and by 1935 the charabanc had reached Soviet Russia . |
| 18 | By 1935 the population of the urban districts had grown to 295,000 . |
| 19 | The Mapplewell and Staincross Hospital Committee was formed in 1887 and the colliery owners and public of this area played a prominent part in maintaining the hospital ; so much so that by 1935 the three bed hospital now had 153 beds and its income had increased from £300 to £18,000 . |
| 20 | By 1935 the figure had grown to 31,723 and by 1938 to 37,095 . |
| 21 | By 1935 the dominant force in the unions led by Bevin and Walter Citrine , the TUC secretary , was tired of Cripps 's radicalism and of Lansbury 's pacifism and decided to demolish Cripps and Lansbury Politically . |
| 22 | By 1935 the Trotskyists had succeeded in organizing an effective group within the ILP . |
| 23 | By 1341 the Forest of Dean had been diminished by a quarter , and the warden 's farm was reduced from £160 to £120 . |
| 24 | By 1845 the levee is breached , but no delta exists ; by 1875 a well-built lobe fills much of the bay ; 1922 shows little further expansion , while by 1958 large areas have reverted to bays and lakes . |
| 25 | By 1875 the total was 199.6 million tons . |
| 26 | But the effort proved exhausting for Egypt and by 1875 the country was heading for bankruptcy . |
| 27 | Britain was in the grip of a severe recession and by 1875 the Britannia Works were forced to close at an enormous loss which Albert Hill could not sustain . |
| 28 | Certainly by 1100 the whole episode had fallen into almost complete oblivion . |
| 29 | By 1850 the earl was spending most of his time in Italy , having had to close Alton Towers for most of the year because of the expense of upkeep . |
| 30 | By 1850 the company had seventy employees and was using an early form of mail order to sell seeds in Britain and overseas , as postal and railway services helped to expand its activities . |