Example sentences of "[that] by the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was evident that by the end of the seventies Britain would be self-sufficient in oil and was likely to remain so , depending on depletion policy , until at least the end of the century . |
| 2 | In many countries this process had a cumulative impact throughout the 1970s so that by the end of that decade the difference between the price paid to farmers for a crop and the price charged to distributors was highly inequitable . |
| 3 | The pain was becoming so intense that by the end of the day she could hardly grip her scissors . |
| 4 | Adobe reckons that by the end of 1990 more than 40m copies of its type-faces were in use . |
| 5 | Tim Congdon , chief economist at Gerrard and National , a discount house , believes that by the end of the century that 5% gap could have trebled . |
| 6 | Amongst the great majority , the faith of earlier centuries persisted , at least outwardly ; indeed , if we look for a movement of thought and feeling that by the end of the century had penetrated into every class of society except the highest , we shall find it in the revival of ‘ vital religion ’ , or ‘ enthusiasm ’ , as it was also called . |
| 7 | The report found that by the end of April this year , ADAS had not agreed a corporate plan with the Ministry of Agriculture covering both the service 's commercial and public good work . |
| 8 | IN JANUARY , some in the City forecast that by the end of last month there would be failures among large , quoted property companies . |
| 9 | It may be that by the end of the century , when we are carrying all before us , some fair-minded matron will survey her predominantly female team and announce that the time has come for a Ministry for Men . |
| 10 | ‘ Thirdly , I believe that by the end of tonight you will see an increase in the number of Liberal Democrat Members of Parliament and I give this undertaking to each of them . |
| 11 | Complaints had been received from local residents that their wash-houses were being abused , and he expected that by the end of his beat at 6 a.m. he would be busy enough . |
| 12 | ( 1984 ) found that by the end of therapy about half of couples showed significant improvement and approximately one-third of couples appeared to be non-distressed . |
| 13 | By the beginning of 1942 rapid expansion had taken place , so that by the end of that year there were some 3,293 staff of all grades , of whom 1,566 were service personnel and 1,727 civilian , and by the time that I had been there for a year there were over 5,000 in all . |
| 14 | Yet for all their meanness , we learn from the minutes that by the end of 1907 nine holes were open , as was the clubhouse , and that several men , ladies and boys had been elected as members . |
| 15 | This envisaged that by the end of this century there would be 104 gigawatts ( 1,000 million watts ) of nuclear capacity , including 33 GW of fast breeder reactors . |
| 16 | 17.33 With regard to spelling , the aim should be that by the end of compulsory schooling pupils should be able to spell confidently most of the words they are likely to need to use frequently in their writing ; to recognise those aspects of English spelling that are systematic ; to make a sensible attempt to spell words that they have not seen before ; to check their work for misspellings and to use a dictionary appropriately . |
| 17 | It is estimated that by the end of the century only about half of all British children will experience conventional family lives — parents married at the time they are born and continuing married until they are grown up ( Kiernan & Wicks , 1990 ) |
| 18 | During the course of the seventeenth century , despite the reaction against puritanism which followed the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 , this point of view became increasingly influential , so that by the end of the century it had come to be generally accepted . |
| 19 | At the same time , interest rates were reduced , the supply of money was relaxed , and the National Bank forecast that by the end of the year the annual rate of inflation would be down to 55 per cent . |
| 20 | Its Munich manufacturer , Krauss-Maffei , hopes that by the end of this year the machine will be tested up to 300km/h . |
| 21 | I received treatment on my injury every day in Edinburgh , so that by the end I was recovering well . |
| 22 | After the siege there was a rapid polarisation of opinion within the city , which resulted in the absorption or departure of the remaining Polish gentry , so that by the end of the Napoleonic Wars Danzig and Pomerania , though still containing a very substantial number of Poles and Polish-speakers , were considered loyal to Prussian ideals and identity . |
| 23 | Those who are enraged by the state of disrepair of Bristol 's streets may derive a cold comfort from reading in Elizabeth Ralph 's pamphlet , The Streets of Bristol , that things were just as bad in the Middle Ages and that by the end of the 18th century the roads to Bristol were a lot better than the roads in it . |
| 24 | ‘ We hope that by the end of the season every fan will be calling them AC Milamb and flocking to buy British . ’ |
| 25 | I just hope that by the end of the campaign , big Ron announces that we are a decent team . |
| 26 | But we would nevertheless hope that by the end of their school careers as many pupils as possible will have been able to ‘ grow ’ through literature — both emotionally and aesthetically , both morally and socially — by virtue of coming into contact with the ‘ range of possible thought and feeling ’ identified above [ in the quotation from the Kingman Report printed on p. 72 ] . |
| 27 | This increased as the use of the parish coffin began to wane , so that by the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth , the parish coffin had practically disappeared . |
| 28 | But I think that by the end of his career , Mario knew that he belonged to another time and another place . |
| 29 | It must have bewildered the matron , who watched practically every mouthful I ate , that by the end of term I had lost another two pounds . |
| 30 | So Schuler accepted it , knowing that by the end of it his prospects of regaining an All Black place might have disappeared . |