Example sentences of "[adv] by [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should know better by this time , because not only do these things then happen , but my machines do something even worse . |
| 2 | Leonora 's heart sank , but she knew better by this time than to argue with Penry Vaughan . |
| 3 | Perhaps by this time the general had submerged the particular . |
| 4 | So by mid-Silurian times the plates that are now in the northern hemisphere were again stable and low in relief . |
| 5 | Then the next week you 're adding a horn section , the week after that you 're adding singers , so by that time it becomes quite a big production . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ So by this time this news of yours should also have reached both Ramsey and Worcester , if there have been no further ambushes on the way , as God forbid ! |
| 7 | and it refused it , and it should , the woman did n't obviously did n't know what to do , she was as embarrassed as had to get the manager so by this time Brian has packed all his bags up |
| 8 | ‘ Compute performance is increasing by 1.7 times every year , while bus bandwidth is going up only by 1.3 times . |
| 9 | Eventually I moved on from the blues , picking up on Ronnie Lane again , only by this time The Small Faces had become The Faces . |
| 10 | Aware of the way 25,000 Boer farmers had been defeated only by ten times their number in the war of 1899–1902 , during his boyhood in South Africa , Dudley Clarke was able to interest his chief , Sir John Dill , Chief of the Imperial General Staff , in the idea and it was put to the Prime Minister . |
| 11 | Moving on let's have a talk about the primary school budgets , we 're proposing a million pounds here for primary school delegated budgets er we assume that the schools have used that largely by non-contact time for the teachers . |
| 12 | Usually by that time , delivery will already have been made , thus depriving the seller of his lien . |
| 13 | Erm you know , hopefully by that time will be clarified . |
| 14 | Um also by that time er perhaps with a bit more experience of the world you 've got a bit more to compare it with and you 've got a strong sense that this is unjust , unreasonable and that other people do n't have to suffer from it . |
| 15 | In the case of Molla Sayyid Muhammad al-Nakib ( Yavuz Celebi ) , on the other hand , Ata'i merely notes that he started off his career as a kasabat kadi , then turned to the medrese system in which he was given a 40-akce medrese and subsequently worked his way up to the Suleymaniye Darulhadis — probably by this time the premier medrese in the empire to which he was appointed in 1012/1604 : he later became kadi of Eyup and then nakibulesraf . |
| 16 | But probably by this time nobody would still have been listening . |
| 17 | Well by that time we 'll be into caravans wo n't we ? |
| 18 | Well by this time it was ten to eight and I 'd got all these members were going to be outside , I was going to have to let them in and serve them and I was getting a bit frantic you see . |
| 19 | Probably even by that time the whole policy was out of date ; but it did not seem so to the monks of Canterbury , nor to Anselm himself . |
| 20 | But there is cause to suspect that even by this time , a certain boyish scepticism had erupted in Leonard 's mind . |
| 21 | Surely by that time it had become clear that if the Government plans for Local Management were ill-conceived , that the plans for Local Management were ill-conceived and had not been properly thought out . |
| 22 | Surely by that time many of you must have realised that had got you into a right pickle over L M S and that you some of you I believe felt that but none of you spoke out about it . |
| 23 | It was 1.45 pm by this time . |
| 24 | Indeed by this time we were so in tune with one another that explanations were unnecessary . |
| 25 | Indeed by this time Mao is specifically advocating that the Party ought to take a more cautious and less radical approach to land reform so as to not antagonize the interests of the middle and rich peasants . |
| 26 | this was on , in the morning , in the afternoon they said his leg would deteriorate , they 've got to take the whole leg off so he said we 'll give it another go and see what happens , course by this time he said the operation has n't |
| 27 | Vron and Barry were crying again by that time , crying gratefully , consolably , in each other 's arms . |
| 28 | However by this time things suddenly hotted up . |
| 29 | If he 'd had the money to choose a more experienced barrister , if the Marshal himself had been on the spot in the first place instead of that young fool student , Bacci , who fancied himself as some sort of Hollywood detective , probably have shot himself accidentally by this time … whole thing had been a mess from start to finish … |