Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] time by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most obvious origin of their diferencias is the organ versets which alternated with the sung verses of a psalm or hymn , the plainsong now in one part , now in another being surrounded each time by fresh counterpoints . |
| 2 | The motorcyclist beat this time by five minutes , but conditions were unusual ; many institutions such as the University and the Art College remained closed for a second day of holiday , which meant traffic was unusually light . |
| 3 | On April 27th Michael Heseltine , the industry minister , formally opened another state-of-the-art car factory — built this time by Honda in Swindon . |
| 4 | Having spent almost all this money on adventurous travelling in South America , the United States , and Canada , he returned in 1908 and was rescued this time by his brother , who employed him as manager of his motor-car showroom in Brighton . |
| 5 | Indeed , as I was making my way back to this guest house this evening , I glanced back over my shoulder on a number of occasions and was met each time by a view of the sun setting behind that great spire . |
| 6 | The phone rang , was answered this time by Monica . |
| 7 | Next Saturday , she will hope to lower that time by a second on the same track in the TSB Invitation . |
| 8 | Category 1 again contains the barn owl and short-eared owl but joined this time by the snowy owl . |
| 9 | Back for another airing are The Old Gits , the pair of horrible old pensioners , Mr ‘ You Do n't Want To Do That ’ , The Slobs and The Scousers , those Liverpool favourites joined this time by Barry and Terry from Brookside . |
| 10 | She could spend more time by the pool , thanks , perhaps , to a long-forgotten act of collaboration with the Nazis . |
| 11 | helping provide non-contact time by covering for colleagues . |
| 12 | Ken Hargreaves , the sitting member , was probably helped last time by having the controversial Liverpool councillor Keva Coombes as his opponent . |
| 13 | first , countries modify local time by 1 or 2 hours , according to whether it is winter or summer , in order to make more use of the daylight hours . |
| 14 | Evidently there had been a series of mass extinctions followed each time by the appearance of an entirely new set of species that formed the population of the next stable period . |
| 15 | One of the most deliberate of these editorial tempo relationships occurs in ‘ Pleni sunt coeli et terra majestatis gloriae tuae ’ where the text at minim=60 is preceded and followed each time by the orchestral ‘ fanfares ’ at double speed , and this breakneck tempo is then adopted for the remainder of the movement ( for the unfortunate apostles , prophets and martyrs ) until the inevitable rallentando at the end . |
| 16 | The system can be set up experimentally by measuring the time taken to attain each speed level and minimising this time by adjusting the previous speed level ; the time taken to reach stepping rate f2 is measured and the value off , adjusted until this time is a minimum , then continue by adjusting f1 while measuring the time to reach f3 etc . |
| 17 | More lightning flickered overhead , followed this time by several cracks of thunder , each a tearing whiplash of sound . |
| 18 | I could see you needed some time by yourself . |
| 19 | We will gain more time by trying to institute better policing , making improvements in the control of any future whaling . |
| 20 | Well I wo n't have enough time by Friday I 've got homework to do every day |
| 21 | We can estimate this time by comparing molecular sequences in the two species . |
| 22 | Ireland represented this time by Christy O'Connor Jnr and Ronan Rafferty were champions back in 1958 while Wales won five years ago through Ian Woosnam and David Llewellyn . |
| 23 | Mulhern does n't sell horses but he was partly influenced this time by Jeremy Maxwell who used to train On the Other Hand and he eventually agreed to part with the gelding to Robert Ogden with a view to running in the Grand Military Gold Cup at Sandown . |
| 24 | Donleavy , accompanied this time by another agent , arrived there early next morning , the 15th , for a full day 's debriefing , and that night Coleman headed south for Alabama to rejoin Mary-Claude at the Lake Martin cottage . |
| 25 | Management has a choice about workers : it can pay them a pittance to control an on-off button , or minimise down time by training them to fix — ie program — the new machines . |
| 26 | If you wish to make duty-free purchases etc. please leave sufficient time by arriving at check-in earlier . |
| 27 | ‘ I have always been tested before or after competition and I am prepared to be tested any time by the IAAF . ’ |
| 28 | If the ferry boat was there it would be quicker , if not she would have lost precious time by not taking the direct path to the bridge . |
| 29 | He sacrificed precious time by taking on the onerous administrative post of tutor , which he held from 1929 to 1942 , and also the pious labour of bringing out volume two of the posthumously published Early Age of Greece ( 1931 ) of Sir William Ridgeway [ q.v . ] . |
| 30 | Rushing Wild was beaten last time by Country Member , who attempts to upgrade the value of the form in tomorrow 's Ritz Club National Hunt Handicap Chase . |