Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] by the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a system , based on social class and the old school tie , had never become quite so entrenched across the Atlantic in the first place , and had largely broken down by the end of the 1950s . |
| 2 | Of course the Viking/Mbus-based Dragon needs Solaris 2.0 SMP — which is supposed to come out by the end of the year . |
| 3 | The empire , at least in Africa , was thought likely to outlast the century , not least by socialist ministers ; and it was imagined that the Marshall Plan , paid off by the end of 1950 , might represent only a brief and passing reliance on the economy of the United States . |
| 4 | The Aldergrove operation — with a turnover last year of £21m — is to be sold off by the end of next year in a major privatisation project . |
| 5 | A Forestry Commission spokesman denied charges of a secret arrangement , but acknowledged that the Ordnance Survey had " clearly felt that it would be misleading to their customers to publish maps indicating Commission land when they are aware that one tenth of this land has to be sold off by the end of the century " . |
| 6 | Both agreed that a draft outlining the main areas of agreement and disagreement should be drawn up by the end of January 1992 and the US Representative for Trade Negotiations Carla Hills cautioned that the USA had " no intention of substituting speed for substance " . |
| 7 | West Wales , a totally tourist-traffic target area , will be opened up by the end of the year with 158 rolling stock added to the single-car Class 153 trains already introduced . |
| 8 | Intel Corp , obliquely confirming nagging reports that Pentium chips will be in critically short supply at least until October , now says it will ship only about 100,000 of the chips by the end of the year , where only two months ago it was talking ‘ hundreds of thousands ’ of parts this year ; Intel now sees 10,000 Pentiums going out by the end of June , 40,000 in the third quarter , and some 50,000 in fourth . |
| 9 | SHEEP farming in two Borders valleys could be wiped out by the end of the decade , with holdings covered in commercial forestry , a group campaigning to protect the open hills forecast yesterday . |
| 10 | Following news that it was working on a 64-bit Sparc RISC version of very long instruction word technology ( UX No 381 ) , Bell Atlantic Corp , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , is now claiming that there will be a multi-processing , superscalar Sparc Unix machine around by the end of the year that will incorporate the VLIW Trace scheduling compilers which originated from now defunct Multiflow Computers Inc . |
| 11 | New installations of the sow stall would be banned from this year , and current systems phased out by the end of 1998 . |
| 12 | The bill will see all remaining forms of tobacco advertising phased out by the end of 1995 . |
| 13 | The US dollar , which had peaked at US$1.00=DM1.85 during May and June 1991 from a February trough of 1.44 , had fallen back by the end of November to below 1.6 , as early hopes of a rapid recovery in US consumer spending faded , and as unfavourable indicators in the employment market coincided with news of a disappointing trade balance in September . |
| 14 | The centre will test for interoperability between ICL and non-ICL hardware , software and operating systems at the bequest of customers and ICL says it 'll have 12 similar worldwide centres set up by the end of the year — 50 by the end of 1994 . |
| 15 | In the meantime , work was proceeding on the Croydon — Sutton line and the time limit specified in the Act was due to run out by the end of the year . |
| 16 | I would expect to see the lower figures resulting in as indeed they themselves imply , lower migration movements to North Yorkshire and indeed I think the figures from er might end up by the end of the period as net outward movement from North Yorkshire to be achieved , given the level of commitments we have up front . |
| 17 | So where previous versions of the package have consisted of linked applications , version four , which the company is still hopeful that it will get out by the end of June , is essentially monolithic . |
| 18 | She should be able to move in by the end of next week , and I 'll never be so happy as when I wave her goodbye at the front door . |
| 19 | But it was slowly sinking , dragged down by the end of the Cold War and Far East competition . |
| 20 | The result is a forecast of much more rapid and pronounced warming of the globe than has previously been thought likely , setting in by the end of the present decade . |
| 21 | He hopes to have around 400 pubs snapped up by the end of the year . |
| 22 | F7,000 million of this was to be repaid over six years ( with a three-year grace period ) , while the remainder was to be paid back by the end of 1989 . |