Example sentences of "[adv] by the time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does sound as through some of the rhythmic inflexions have lost their spontaneity and solidified into mannerisms ( they had already done so by the time of the 1978 Vienna Festival account once available on EMI ) . |
| 2 | However , although early Greek literacy must therefore also be labelled ‘ restricted ’ , the foundation was nevertheless being laid for future developments of the ‘ full ’ potential of literacy : ‘ It was only by the time of Plato that the language had changed sufficiently to express new ideas ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 3 | But already by the time of Pope Gregory I ( d. 604 ) the monastic movement , widely diversified as it was , was being integrated into the life of the church at large and open to the demands made on it by the church 's interests and needs . |
| 4 | The elections for it were promised for the following year and already by the time of the secretary of state 's television broadcast in early September both the NIO and the Ulster political parties were evolving respective plans . |
| 5 | Already by the time of Mortmain , however , the problem was less about donations of land to the religious houses than the purchase of land by them , but this too was curtailed more by monastic poverty than by statute ; in fact the king not long after this had to ban houses of which he was patron from selling their endowments . |
| 6 | It would be a long time before all of this changed very much — and certainly it had not by the time of the Crowther Report in 1959 ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 7 | Excavations at Tepe Gawra much nearer the highland sources of metals show that close contacts had already been established with the city states of Sumer as far back as the middle of the fourth millennium B.C. By the time of the Royal Cemetery of Ur ( c.2600–2500 B.C. ) metallurgy and not least gold- and silversmithing had already reached a stage at which many of the fundamental processes had been mastered . |
| 8 | While such figures can not , of course , be seen as precise indicators of opinion , the downward trend apparent in all of them does suggest that devotion to the Führer — or at least the readiness to declare such devotion in public — had fallen rapidly by the time of the Stalingrad débâcle . |
| 9 | It was a landscape which Coleridge probably knew well by the time of his autumn visit , and to whose spectacular beauty he was to introduce the Wordsworths before the year ended . |
| 10 | So strategic was the city 's position that the present inhabitants claim that the dwellers were a people in their own right even by the time of the Roman conquest , and that when Julius Caesar gave them Roman citizenship they were already famed as an industrious , peaceable , practical people with a legendary ability to confront any misadventures with incredible resources of energy . |
| 11 | These had originally also been nomadic pastoralists , but even by the time of the Russian conquest were partly settled and engaged in agriculture around the Tatar towns such as Tara and Tyumen . |
| 12 | I , I do n't know the answer to that offhand , but it 's , I 'm inclined to think that erm at least by the time of the Republic there are things that some people are more naturally predisposed towards philosophy and other people are less naturally predisposed towards philosophy . |
| 13 | Therefore by the time of the October revolution , when the Bolsheviks assumed power , the whole economy was in a state of chaos . |
| 14 | Looking into the crystal ball , there now seems the prospect that the New Zealand XV ( after a mid-week warm-up ) will improve considerably by the time of the second ‘ test ’ . |
| 15 | It is doubtful whether Kierkegaard himself held this view , certainly by the time of his last and great work Concluding Unscientific Postscript , where he insisted that ‘ faith must not rest content with unintelligibility ’ . |
| 16 | Though Caedwalla remained unbaptized until after his abdication as king in 688 , it is not inconceivable that he approached Wilfrid in such a capacity , and certainly by the time of his abdication Caedwalla had resolved to seek baptism in Rome itself . |