Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] time by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met R. D. Case afterwards — he was on the Westminster Gazette at that time — and he told me that Stanford was so drunk that he 'd almost fallen into the gravel Apparently he 'd just been caught in time by George Watson-Forbes , who later wrote a remarkable series of articles in the Daily News on the Home Rule question . ’ |
| 2 | They have looked at the commission of offences reported over time by a sample of youths in longitudinal surveys . |
| 3 | Some of this exuberance was tempered in time by a greater appreciation of just how much of the world economy would have to be rebuilt after the war , and of the range of obstacles which stood in the way of the realization of the dream of " unhampered trade " . |
| 4 | This is normally done by imposing upon the tenant a covenant to comply with regulations made from time by the landlord . |
| 5 | She said : ‘ Our initial horror and disbelief at what happened on that day was replaced over time by the realisation that that day heralded the start of the British Government 's Shoot-to-Kill policy in Northern Ireland ’ . |
| 6 | a document connected with the appeal was not received in time by one of the parties or their representative ; |
| 7 | This world of change and conflict , however , is not just a chaos but is governed throughout time by a principle of order or balance of opposites , keeping them within their due bounds . |
| 8 | Such initiatives tended to be overcome in time by inertia and indifference . |
| 9 | If an F-type candidate is identified in time by his teacher , he may be entered for an F-type examination and may thus at least be saved from getting a G grade or worse . |
| 10 | On this particular occasion it was doubled in time by the long army convoys crawling up the hills out of Lydney and Chepstow as the machine for war was ponderously assembled . |
| 11 | That is , structuration refers to the process by which classes become reproduced as real ‘ lived ’ entities , together with the way in which their structure is changed over time by social processes . |
| 12 | I extend a standing invitation to any firm that is not being paid on time by any of the country 's 100 largest companies or Government Departments to allow me to take up its case individually . |