Example sentences of "by the [noun sg] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , to the extent that an issue is expressly covered by the Convention it displaces rules of national law that might otherwise apply and thereby renders otiose conflict-of-laws rules designed to lead to the selection of the applicable national law . |
| 2 | At least , in those extraordinary days between Hiroshima and the declaration of Vietnamese independence , hardly anyone , except the French garrison who were still imprisoned , first by the Japanese and then by the Vietminh , could be found to contradict this assumption of power and by the time it took place , or at least was claimed , another thread in the French connection had been broken . |
| 3 | By the time it reached London , what seemed to be missing most of all was the play itself . |
| 4 | The food was described as tasteless and monotonous , and often cold by the time it reached people housed some distance from the kitchens . |
| 5 | According to one account , by the time it hit Villequier , it was a wall of water several metres high moving at fifteen miles per hour . |
| 6 | ( Objects lose different fractions of their kinetic energy before catastrophic disruption ; for example , the 29-m stony asteroid entering at 45° has had its kinetic energy reduced by ablation and deceleration to 10Mton by the time it reaches 10km altitude . ) |
| 7 | It becomes more concentrated as the day wears on , and by the time it reaches peak levels , in the late afternoon , the polluted air will usually have drifted away from the cities into the countryside . |
| 8 | Fish never quite tastes the same by the time it reaches London . |