Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I stood and watched them pass by I wondered how many of them would be killed or seriously wounded by this time tomorrow afternoon . |
| 2 | Sun exposure of more than 50,000 lifetime hours also increased the risk of being excessively wrinkled by 3.1 times . |
| 3 | If the adventurers have destroyed the Blackshard , the Oracle ( if he still lives ) wo n't attack them when they return to room 66 ( all the mucus in stairwell 67 will have magically vanished by this time , allowing them to return ) . |
| 4 | One of them , Alistair Bruce , told the waiting reporters that they would have expected any charges to have materialised by this time . |
| 5 | ‘ About some stolen property , ’ said the other , who , I 'd decided by this time , had shifty eyes . |
| 6 | ’ And then , softly , ‘ And indeed , the damage was done by that time . |
| 7 | She recalls : ‘ The book was done by this time . |
| 8 | In the past year , prices have risen by three times the rate of inflation , says National Utility Services , which advises industry on costs . |
| 9 | The wind had freshened by this time and was causing some choppy waves , so we pressed on to try and finish the circuit planned before counting became impossible . |
| 10 | Gall bladder volumes , measured by real time ultrasonography ( Technicare , 3.5 MHz transducer ) , were calculated by the sum of cylinders method with a computerised system . |
| 11 | After an overnight fast , gall bladder volume was measured by real time ultrasonography ( SDR 1500 , Philips Ultrasound Inc , California , USA : 5.0 MHz transducer ) . |
| 12 | Although it will have overtaken OS/2 's share by this time , Unix will still account for some 32% of servers systems sold by this time , the market research group says . |
| 13 | Most of the other students had foregathered by this time and were awaiting their final briefing from their tutor . |
| 14 | I 'm not sure that withholding diplomatic recognition is the best way to approach that , after all diplomatic recognition is concerned really with the effective control of territory and things like that rather than with moral principles , however , I think that er , when the Soviet Republics are signing their new Union Treaty or Commonwealth Treaty or whatever it 's going to be called by that time , this question should be amongst the most important to be tackled there , that 's to say the rights of ethnic minorities living in Republican Territories , that they should have the right to educate their children in their own language , that they should have the right to their own religion and so on and so forth . |
| 15 | I 'd retired by this time . |
| 16 | The nature of Burne-Jones 's aims and predilections in art are well-enough known by this time , and have been defined by himself absolutely fitted to this thought : ‘ I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was , never will be — in a light better than any light that ever shone — in a land no one can define or remember , only desire . ’ |
| 17 | The 17th Century Wide Work or New Work is separated from the White Work ( known by this time as the Deep or Old Mine ) by a steeply inclined bed of well cleaved ashes and tuffs which , in places , have been found suitable for roofing slate . |
| 18 | Our advice for the first launch is — hands together , arms outstretched ( but never above your head as is so often attempted by first time flyers ) and as the kite rises , sustain an even line tension . |
| 19 | The whole place must be flattened by this time . |
| 20 | The last of the shore birds will probably have arrived by this time . |
| 21 | Depression in the previous twelve months was experienced by three times more women who had experienced maternal loss or separation ( of at least one year ) in childhood than by women with no such childhood experiences . |
| 22 | But applications for larger numbers of shares are likely to be scaled back substantially after the offer was oversubscribed by 4.7 times .. |
| 23 | Basing his calculations on the mass of ancient slag heaps dotting the Troodos ophiolite , George Constantinou estimates that 2000 thousand tonnes of copper had been mined by Roman times . |
| 24 | A reminder letter and questionnaire were sent 6 weeks later to subjects who had not replied by this time . |
| 25 | After Chernobyl the public was not given adequate warnings , and radiation fallout was underestimated by 40 times . |
| 26 | Each of the 40-minute films has its own theme , starting with Breaking Up , followed by Second Time Around , then Revenge and the final episode Coming To Terms . |
| 27 | But the system of fixed exchange rates established after the war and based on the dollar had already disintegrated by that time . |
| 28 | For the first time , he was beginning to sell records in the United States , but the relationship between DeFries and Bowie had disintegrated by this time . ’ |
| 29 | Er I 'm afraid a lot of it had gone by that time . |
| 30 | Lizzy was so far gone by this time that she just smiled at them as they took her out to the meat wagon . |