Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , for experienced parachutists , anxiety was usually high on the day before the jump but then steadily reduced to a low level by the time of the jump . |
| 2 | Disturbing the Ritual : The adventurers can do this simply by stepping into the circle and attacking the Vampire and his minion , but the circle offers them some protection by the time the adventurers attack : treat Maximilian and Juliane as having 1 AP , all locations , and +10 bonuses to their I scores while within the circle . |
| 3 | Announcing the establishment of new climate monitoring centre , Thatcher offered support for the establishment of a convention on climatic change by the time of the UN 's 1992 world conference on the environment and development ( a proposal supported in Resolutions 44/229 and 44/207 ) ; and proposed that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change preparing a report for that conference be extended . |
| 4 | The village children were reading at least some words by the time they were six . |
| 5 | But the weather deteriorated and the wind increased to around 30 miles-per-hour by the time Jack was out and shot a 76 , giving us a three-stroke advantage over the Bear . |
| 6 | It was like an old dishcloth by the time I was finished . |
| 7 | According to their figures only 19% of those who start work as clerks are still employed in clerical work by the time that they are 30 . |
| 8 | What I have presented as analysis of current movements may well have acquired a historical flavour by the time these words are read . |
| 9 | Gina and Michel , the artist , had gone off together to some exhibition by the time Eleanor left . |
| 10 | If the UK government has not signed the Agreement on Social Policy by the time it comes into force , it will be possible for the Commission to present a revised proposal including those mentioned above , which could then be adopted by a qualified majority of the eleven signatory states [ see page 34 ] . |
| 11 | All the social sciences are predicated on the notion that individuals are not isolated like so many Robinson Crusoes — who , in any case , was already a social creature by the time he was shipwrecked on the island — but are related to others in complex ways . |
| 12 | It is quite clear that nothing is missing from the other end of the Interludium as it was copied on to this vellum : the vellum had already been cut to its surviving top edge by the time the Interludium came to be written on to it . |
| 13 | [ aside ] I 'll nip this bud by the time it begins to open and place it in my bosom for a year or two at least . |
| 14 | No matter how fast they travelled , the corridor never seemed to get any shorter and Endill thought he would be an old man by the time they reached the other end . |
| 15 | There must have been dozens of them in our back garden by the time I was seven , though my parents had no idea they were living next to a bird cemetery . |
| 16 | They were British citizens by the time that Ilya Holovich entered Kingston General Hospital for a difficult confinement . |
| 17 | She had settled there to some extent by the time I was released and I did n't think it was good to disrupt her again . |
| 18 | Lacking adequate finance , information and technical expertise , and saddled with a piece of legislation riddled with loopholes and contradictions , the Institute was faced with an impossible task and had made little headway by the time the political climate changed in autumn 1933 . |
| 19 | It was early evening by the time the house settled down again , and Theda and Benedict , exhausted , found themselves alone together , one in each leather chair either side of Hector , asleep on a blanket before the fire that Adam Diggory , back from Mountsorrel , had lit in the grate in spite of the warmth of the day . |
| 20 | The town of Knossos had reached a size of not less than 45 hectares by the time its first temple was built in 1930 BC , which would have given it a population of 12,000–18,000 . |
| 21 | It would have been a long walk to here , and no doubt some other person would have been offering a dubious lift by the time she arrived . |
| 22 | Although Gould had wound up two of his principal publications by the time he left England — the concluding part 22 of Birds of Europe was scheduled for July 1837 , and the third and final part of the Trogons appeared on or before 14 March 1838 — Prince was charged with seeing to the publicity and the production of the plates for Darwin 's Zoology of the Beagle , and the printing and colouring of the illustrations for the second part of Icones Avium on the species of Caprimulgidae , or goatsuckers . |
| 23 | Most of the electrics went off the board with damp and the violent motion by the time we thankfully dropped anchor off Clovelly near the Bristol Class Lifeboat on station there . |
| 24 | I was only gon na say we 're , we will probably have a much clearer idea by the time we get to the results . |
| 25 | And Alfred P Sloan , who pioneered decentralization at General Motors in the early 1920s , lived to see it become international corporate practice by the time he published his best-selling memoirs in 1964 . |
| 26 | It is interesting to note how Trade Indemnity , which has been an active user of this Z-Score approach for many years , used the technique as part of its overall risk assessment procedures to provide advance warning , allowing it to reduce exposure to MCC to a nominal sum by the time it failed . |
| 27 | This snow will have cost you a small fortune in wasted hay by the time it thaws , but it was the right thing to do , it 's saved your stock . ’ |
| 28 | An Arab can never know the exact date of his birth according to our calendar , for if he was born on 12th January , that day in the Muslim calendar might be 12th January of the previous year by the time he was twenty or twenty-one , owing to the shorter months . |
| 29 | He became a successful schoolmaster , through the kindly help of a family friend , and was a married man with three daughters by the time he walked to Cambridge in 1748 to become an undergraduate at Sidney Sussex College . |
| 30 | The Orient had well-developed civilizations long before anything in Europe , and they too appreciated the qualities of the rose and its potential when cross-bred and hybridized — a process that was well in advance of the horticultural achievements of European civilizations by the time the latter 's explorations brought East and West together . |