Example sentences of "[verb] by the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible that this leakage was caused by minute perforations of the gall bladder allowing transudation of bile , that healed by the time of cholecystoscopy . |
| 2 | A cyclone which struck southern districts on June 2 was reported by The Times of June 3 to have killed 500 people . |
| 3 | At the same time two of the nine popularly elected representatives , Akilisi Pohive ( leader of the dissident pro-democracy movement ) and Viliami Fukofuka , were each reported by the Times of Tonga to have returned about 12,000 pa'anga to the Treasury on the grounds that overtime payment for members of the Assembly was immoral and increased the financial burden on the people . |
| 4 | but I know Kay was n't very pleased with Sister about these sort of erm stout things , cos Sister said well if they 're not collected by the time of the next jumble , we sort of empty the cupboard and put them all in for erm the jumble sale Kay said to me they 're not hers to do that with |
| 5 | The Tory paternalists of the 1950s seemed dated by the time of the Heath government in 1970–4 . |
| 6 | The founder stressed the importance of instruction in Latin , Greek , and Hebrew , and the school was built by the time of Judde 's death and endowed with property worth £60 3s. 8d. a year . |
| 7 | The first degree of love in Ego Dormio shown by an unshakeable adherence to the teaching of the Church and necessary to every man " will be safe " ( 63.91 ) seems to be taken for granted by the time of the later text . |
| 8 | During the commission set up in 1888 to inquire into charges made by The Times against Charles Stewart Parnell [ q.v. ] he provided crucial assistance to Parnell in exposing Richard Pigott [ q.v. ] as a forger . |
| 9 | By 1372 England had suffered a naval defeat at La Rochelle and lost most of the gains which it had made by the time of the treaty of Brétigny ; in the following year much of Brittany was lost ; in 1375 another spectacular naval defeat was suffered ; and in 1376 and 1377 the south and east coasts of England were alerted under threats of invasion or raids . |
| 10 | Under the US 1986 Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act , five conditions had to be met for the lifting of sanctions , of which only two had been met by the time of de Klerk 's visit ( entering into negotiations with black representatives and lifting the ban on democratic parties ) . |
| 11 | the plaintiff had died by the time of the hearing . |
| 12 | What the plaintiff was told is not clear , as the surgeon had died by the time of the trial . |
| 13 | The common threads of activity and inactivity have been graphically noted by the Time for Action study ( Godlove et al . , |
| 14 | Judging from the evidence provided in these documents , it appears that Jacques had essentially retired by the time of his marriage in 1728 . |
| 15 | Top of my list of ‘ possibles ’ is Colin Stephens , who had a poor spell last season after Llanelli 's loss against Neath but had recovered by the time of the Schweppes Cup final . |
| 16 | The ideology of merit as the criterion of access to secondary education and its subsequent social and economic rewards was well entrenched by the time of the outbreak of war , as were the mechanics of separation into two distinct types of education . |
| 17 | A way would have to be found by the time of the Edinburgh Summit ( later the Birmingham Summit was introduced for the same purpose ) of providing a form of words ( possibly involving subsidiarity ) which would help the Danes to save face . |
| 18 | As a class they had disappeared by the time of the Domesday survey . |
| 19 | This was the argument voiced by The Times on 8 October : ‘ The working of parliamentary institutions , of democratic responsibility , and of constitutional practice , demands it . ’ |
| 20 | So we find , for example , that men are like grass renewed in the morning but withered by the time of evening ( I 's 90.5 ) ; their days are like grass which is gone when the wind ( as here ) passes over it ( 103.15–16 ) ; the " son of man who is made like grass " is parallel to " man who dies " ( Isa 51.12 ) . |
| 21 | Goya 's life , on the other hand , coincides with the decline and ultimate collapse of the Empire ; Spanish rule in America had been overthrown by the time of his death in 1828 . |
| 22 | The purpose of the law , which was not widely practised by the time of Jesus , was to preserve both a family line and the inheritance of family possessions and property . |
| 23 | He said by the time of the next election it would no longer be possible to cancel Trident . |
| 24 | The Whigs , as a political force , had been largely destroyed by the time of James 's accession , and were in no position to mount an effective challenge to his rule . |
| 25 | The surviving correspondence does not make clear what happened to Mr. Carrick , but as Glassford had by the time of election three votes prepared and George Abercromby defeated Major Dundas , it may be surmised that Lord Dundas 's failure to secure the reinstatement of the collector of Inverness was seen by Glassford as a neglect which justified his remaining friendly with Abercromby . |
| 26 | Despite the terror which as a result of his ruthlessness , cruelty and ungovernable rages his name evoked , he had by the time of the British invasion lost effective control of his country except around his mountain fortress of Magdala . |
| 27 | Mabel , whose mother came from the wealthy de Veres , had by the time of her father 's death married into the Francheville family , and she was not the sort of woman to throw away her rightful inheritance without a struggle . |
| 28 | In practice , the sleep/wake cycle seems to exert an important effect upon many of our daily rhythms and the timing of many of them is determined by the time of mid-sleep or the middle of our waking hours . |
| 29 | Whilst some progress had been made complete free movement of capital can not be said to have been achieved by the time of the SEA . |
| 30 | Leys , for example , argues that the fact that the colonial state apparatus had to subdue opposition from pre-colonial ruling classes does not mean that it would inevitably be overdeveloped by the time of dependence , because ‘ by that time the capitalist mode of production had been introduced , and made effectively dominant , in the colonial social formation ’ . |