Example sentences of "[conj] by the time " in BNC.

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1 Life as a second lieutenant in the Guards with little prospect of action did not appeal , although by the time the Germans invaded France in May 1940 , Stirling was in Chamonix training with a force of experienced skiers who were to be sent to help the Finns .
2 And so Ian went north to Barnsley but , after completing another century of appearances for The Tykes , his link with Palace was re-established in June 1984 when he joined Steve Coppell as Assistant Manager here at Selhurst Park , and helped to fashion the team that restored 1st Division football at The Palace in 1989 , although by the time of Palace 's promotion , Ian had taken over as Manager of Swansea City .
3 One aspect of the case which is not explored in the judgment is the fact that the appellant was on parole when the offence was committed , although by the time he was sentenced it seems that his licence would either have been close to expiry or have expired already .
4 It was clearly a site of some importance and it is not impossible that Rochester was the centre of one of the four Kentish kingdoms mentioned by Caesar , although by the time of Claudius ' invasion these kingdoms appear to have been united under one ruler .
5 By mid-June , the projection of the opinion polls was already suggesting that the majority favouring a measure of divorce legislation was declining so rapidly that by the time of the poll , the noes would have it .
6 And the chances are that by the time the market picks up again in 1991 we will be back to the 1983 figure .
7 But he also remembered that by the time he left school he was ‘ a thoroughly political animal ’ .
8 Veyrat promises that by the time the first of 20 £40,000 sports cars are built by June 1001 , weight will still be under 2000lb and acceleration electrifying .
9 The group maintains that by the time Mr Outhwaite agreed to take on the US risks , the dangers of asbestosis were already known : a Lloyd 's working party had been set up in 1980 to look at the issue .
10 The only problem was that by the time you had finished the slide show at the end of the evening you were covered from fingertips to armpits in coloured ink and oil and all the gunge associated with it .
11 Many observers believe that by the time he steps down in Brussels , at the end of 1992 , most small Irish farmers will have accepted his pension plan and he can return as the hero of rural Ireland .
12 One non-commissioned officer , writing home , said he presumed that by the time his letter arrived ‘ the bells throughout the whole of Germany would be announcing the victory over the mightiest enemy of civilization .
13 There is evidence to suggest that by the time of Euclid these observations were occurring in a cone of vision .
14 It is true that by the time of Law 's dismissal the number of Councils had grown to 1,005 .
15 An inquest in Lancaster had earlier been told that by the time the information was received , Lancashire Police had spent £250,000 investigating what they thought was the murder of John Threlfall , 18 .
16 What emerges from these scantily recorded years is that by the time of the first minuted meeting , in January 1907 , and which was probably held in the manager 's office at the Henley branch of Reading bankers , J. and C. Simonds , much work towards the Club 's formation had already been accomplished .
17 What hostility did not do was deflect him from his purpose , so that by the time the regime fell in 1870 Paris had been altered for ever and bore the mark of Napoleon III .
18 However , I am pleased to recall that by the time dinner was served an hour or so later , nothing but efficiency and professional calm was exhibited on the part of my team .
19 Well , your average fees per term , ten years on , at current inflation rates … will stand at … five thousand a term , give or take , you see … and that 's just when he 's ten … course it 'll be double that by the time he 's seventeen …
20 By manipulating the number of days in the intercalary month they could prolong a term of office or hasten an election , with the result that by the time of Julius Caesar the civil year was about three months out of phase with the astronomical year , so that the winter months fell in the autumn and the spring equinox came in the winter .
21 England particularly suffered from these raids , so that by the time of the twelfth-century renaissance it was , in the words of R. W. Southern , ‘ a colony of the French intellectual empire , important in its way and quite productive , but still subordinate ’ .
22 The problem with lists is that by the time you write item number three , you have completely forgotten about item number one , and so on .
23 Peter and Paul hope that by the time they are grown up , the doctors will know more about HC and how to stop it .
24 so that by the time the eastern goods reached the Mediterranean only the most uninspiring of the diamonds were left .
25 The process is so effective that by the time the molecules reach the top of the outer tube , they are arranged in a series of concentric rings , each representing one type of molecule or cell .
26 Moreover , it must be remembered that the unit is extremely small , and also that by the time that man was struggling with the birth pangs of civilisation , it had already been produced , by the wondrous process of evolution , in astronomical numbers .
27 ‘ Many seem to increase their speed so that by the time they take the left hand fork to Cuckoo 's Corner pick your own farm , they are often doing speeds over 50mph . ’
28 The Japanese emphasise the quality of their wares , and rubbish the UK product , while the UK counters by saying that by the time Japanese food is shipped here it can become oxidised .
29 ‘ But we had managers who were trying to get us to play the steak houses of LA , which is like a trip to nowhere , and yet there was this cult thing growing on the East Coast and in the South , and it turned out that by the time we joined Fleetwood Mac we were headlining in our own right to five thousand people in the South and East , but totally starving in LA !
30 Too bad that by the time of her own death , she was one of its few remaining practitioners .
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