Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] by the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The advent of commercial and domestic freezing equipment means that what we eat is no longer limited by the time of year — although whether you consider the flavour of food which has been deep frozen for any length of time to be as good is another matter . |
| 3 | The Whigs , as a political force , had been largely destroyed by the time of James 's accession , and were in no position to mount an effective challenge to his rule . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This is important since it has been shown that in inflammatory bowel disease , architectural disturbances in the mucosa , manifest especially in crypt distortion , are well established by the time of the first clinical episode . |
| 7 | The purpose of the law , which was not widely practised by the time of Jesus , was to preserve both a family line and the inheritance of family possessions and property . |
| 8 | The common threads of activity and inactivity have been graphically noted by the Time for Action study ( Godlove et al . , |
| 9 | For instance on page 57 of the status report , we read : ‘ If equilibrium had not yet been fully established by the time of the switch back at the end of 1979 , then later equilibrium state Pb-206/Pb-207 ratios would presumably be lower than those seen in 1979 . |
| 10 | Judging from the evidence provided in these documents , it appears that Jacques had essentially retired by the time of his marriage in 1728 . |