Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] by [art] time [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All talk of a referendum had been dropped by the time the Supreme Soviet came to vote on the programme . |
| 2 | However , taken overall the exercise had focussed attention on the problems associated with the filing systems of the two departments , and many of them had been alleviated by the time the study was completed , albeit using manual methods rather than technical solutions . |
| 3 | The italics are ours , and mark the parts which had been deleted by the time the twelfth edition was reached in 1954 ; the word trained was replaced by rightly guided . |
| 4 | Despite frantic last-minute appeals , only £1,634,000 had been raised by the time the offer stopped — still well short of the new lower target of £2 million . |
| 5 | So the Imperial Fists scrutinised transcripts of trials and criminal records involving youngsters , hunting for a special blend of ingenuity , daring , will power — quite often suitable candidates had already been executed by the time the Fists learned of their existence , now cut short by poison gas or explosive bullet . |