Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulties associated with the introduction of the community charge were not caused by the time taken for the Bill to pass through the House , but by the fact that a large number of regulations relating to the charge were passed close to its introduction . |
| 2 | Blake decided that his thoughts were not welcomed by the time traveller . |
| 3 | The subjects of Nietzsche 's two public lectures were already chosen by the time of his letter to Ritschl , as we can see from a letter to a friend in late September . |
| 4 | Well they were suitable and cheaper they were too blooming cheap for the they were usually condemned by the time we got them . |
| 5 | My men called her something else when they started going down with the ‘ clap ’ , but she was long gone by the time they found out . ’ |
| 6 | Yet the facade of high fashion was highly developed by the time of his death ; there were over three miles of carriage road along the cliff top and a promenade at the foot for the elegant and aspiring to see and be seen during the height of Brighton 's mild winter and spring seasons . |
| 7 | Unfortunately the damage was already done by the time Richard was fully recovered , and in spite of his commendable efforts to rescue what was left of the business he had built from his own sweat , it was far too late . |
| 8 | Going back slowly , a little at a time , it became evident that Sylvia 's fear of being closed in had originated very early indeed ; it was already established by the time she was one year old . |
| 9 | Sleep is the only cure for such turbulence , but it 's difficult to achieve , and Mick was hardly rested by the time it was his turn to lead in the dampness of the new morning . |
| 10 | The ideology of merit as the criterion of access to secondary education and its subsequent social and economic rewards was well entrenched by the time of the outbreak of war , as were the mechanics of separation into two distinct types of education . |
| 11 | The imperial system of government was well established by the time Barbarossa came to the throne , with the established chain of command already described . |
| 12 | Mondrian 's style was fully formed by the time he arrived in New York — ‘ Broadway Boogie Woogie ’ does n't have all that much to do with cruising Broadway . |
| 13 | ‘ Emor was extraordinarily detailed by the time we got to Abbotsfield . |
| 14 | Well I thought it was when I went out and exercised the dog before lunch , I went up to Jubilee Park and eh , I had a very brisk walk indeed and I was absolutely lathered by the time I got back to the car , after half an hour . |