Example sentences of "[verb] by the time of " 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 | 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 |
| 3 | The Tory paternalists of the 1950s seemed dated by the time of the Heath government in 1970–4 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | the plaintiff had died by the time of the hearing . |
| 9 | What the plaintiff was told is not clear , as the surgeon had died by the time of the trial . |
| 10 | Judging from the evidence provided in these documents , it appears that Jacques had essentially retired by the time of his marriage in 1728 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As a class they had disappeared by the time of the Domesday survey . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He said by the time of the next election it would no longer be possible to cancel Trident . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | Protocols of accession to GATT were signed by Bolivia on Aug. 4 , 1989 , and by Costa Rica on Nov. 27 , 1989 ; accession ( as the 97th and 98th contracting parties ) was in each case to take place 30 days after ratification by the respective country 's legislature , which had not , however , been completed by the time of the 45th session of the GATT contracting parties held in Geneva , Switzerland , on Dec. 4-5 , 1989 . |
| 27 | Yet the facade of high fashion was highly developed by the time of his death ; there were over three miles of carriage road along the cliff top and a promenade at the foot for the elegant and aspiring to see and be seen during the height of Brighton 's mild winter and spring seasons . |
| 28 | Had the company elected to spread the initial surplus forward , the shortfall would have been sheltered , because the majority of the surplus would not yet have been released to the p&l account by the time of the next valuation . |
| 29 | The advent of commercial and domestic freezing equipment means that what we eat is no longer limited by the time of year — although whether you consider the flavour of food which has been deep frozen for any length of time to be as good is another matter . |
| 30 | The agenda here had changed by the time of Margaret Thatcher 's election victory promise to do something about ‘ those inner cities ’ . |