Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] by [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secretary Andy Wilson said : ‘ I am aware significant delays are being experienced in mail being processed by the time it has to get to the mail trains . |
| 2 | The operating speed of the teletype is limited by the time taken for the system to settle to within the required accuracy at each letter position . |
| 3 | Little enough daylight was left by the time Pedro came skulking back , and for most of the evening she had sat , talking to him , stroking the soft rug of his ear between tense fingers , and waiting for the fit to come again . |
| 4 | In contrast , in both of the earlier studies structural integration was virtually impossible without knowing the overall theme , so that most of the information contained in the passage was lost by the time the important contextual/thematic information was supplied . |
| 5 | The concentration of pancreatic ( group I ) PLA2 ( pan-PLA2 ) in serum was measured by a time resolved fluoroimmunoassay with a monoclonal ( mouse ) antibody raised against human pancreatic PLA2 . |
| 6 | The concentration of synovial type ( group II ) PLA2 ( syn-PLA2 ) in serum was measured by a time resolved fluoroimmunoassay with a polyclonal ( rabbit ) antibody raised against recombinant syn-PLA2 . |
| 7 | So the whole day is done by the time you get started , so you can close out the foreign and even the U S domestic edition , domestic news , before you |
| 8 | Magellan refused , of course — except that he was evidently frustrated enough at the lack of success in finding a way through to promise that if no strait was found by the time they had eaten up another 25° of latitude , he would turn east as they wished . |
| 9 | Same thing affected the Prodraw review , and the contents page was printed by the time its new position had been determined . |
| 10 | Er sometimes the police , if , if there was a police station near , they would phone a message through but er quite of quite often and then you 'd , you 'd get there and often you 'd hear the baby was born by the time you got there . |
| 11 | A similar uncertainty is apparent in the third example where a bill of lading was issued by a time charterer , but the shipper sued the owner of the vessel . |
| 12 | The execution time of a RISC cycle is given by the time it takes to read a register , perform an ALU operation , and store the result back into a register . |
| 13 | The speed of the whole chip is restricted by the time it takes a signal to travel the longest distance . |
| 14 | We have already identified this as a problem but at least the opportunity for manipulation was constrained by the time it would take to receive the invoice . |
| 15 | Quite often the form was outdated by the time it was finally authorized and the clerks would tell the luckless petitioner to start all over again . |
| 16 | An important point to remember about EOG recordings made using EEG amplifiers is that they never give direct information about the direction of gaze — only changes in direction — and the rate at which the galvanometer pens return to the midline of the paper chart is determined by the time constant setting . |
| 17 | The founder stressed the importance of instruction in Latin , Greek , and Hebrew , and the school was built by the time of Judde 's death and endowed with property worth £60 3s. 8d. a year . |
| 18 | PP : Initially we had a prologue in which Peter Grimes 's father appeared on his death-bed , in which he solemnly cursed his son ; but it became apparent fairly soon that this was not a very good idea and the prologue was reshaped by the time we arrived back in England . |
| 19 | It was easy to obey the lieutenant 's command to keep her head down and say nothing , but her heart was thundering by the time they reached the relative safety of the airfield 's terminal building . |
| 20 | Only one decision was made by the time I reached London — I was going to buy nothing blue , and I was going to let my hair grow long . |
| 21 | As we have seen , some of the radicalism inherent in Howe 's 1978 speech was dissipated by the time enterprise zones were given legal status in 1980 . |