Example sentences of "[subord] by the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowledge of Greek science and technology , combined with Iranian and Indian traditions and enhanced by further scientific studies and inventions , spread from there to other parts of the Islamic world , including Sicily and southern Italy and especially Moorish Spain , where by the twelfth century the main centres of learning were in Cordoba and Toledo . |
| 2 | The earliest figures of this kind were still actors or writers , but the new role rapidly increased in importance , until by the mid-twentieth century the director could see himself , and was often seen by others , as the central productive figure . |
| 3 | On subsequent nights it became more difficult to prevent REM sleep , especially in the early hours , and the number of wakenings necessary increased night by night until by the fifth and sixth nights subjects were hardly getting any sleep at all . |
| 4 | During our set the sky grew gradually darker and darker , until by the last number the sky was as black as the ceiling of the Camden Falcon . |
| 5 | Under their stewardship and that of their descendants , development of the lead-bearing fields expanded until by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the pattern of lead-mining in the Dales had become established . |
| 6 | As I told the Whaddon and Mitchley Argus and the ‘ Sporting Mauve ’ , the game went precisely to plan , yet they claimed we were totally outplayed and only secured victory because by the last quarter the ‘ five Chamden heroes ’ were completely knackered . |
| 7 | This is somewhat unfortunate because by the fourteenth of January we are supposed to agree a purchase plan with the health authority , and it 's a little difficult to do that in the absence of the knowledge of what conditions are attaching us to where and how you can spend the money . |
| 8 | When by the third day her father had still not allowed Jessie out of her room , and Agnes confronted him , saying he could n't keep her incarcerated forever , and that if he did n't let her out then she was leaving , and that she meant it , he had gone along to his daughter 's room , taking with him a Bible , on which he made her swear that if he gave her the freedom of the house she would not attempt to leave it . |
| 9 | It is presumed to have taken place and been carried , for by the next Minutes in 1920 , caddies were certainly permitted on a Sunday . |
| 10 | Works on comparative anatomy continued this tradition , though by the nineteenth century there was more caution about using mankind . |