Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] by [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it takes time and effort and the action shown in the close-up may have changed or stopped by the time the wide shot begins , so there may be action matching problems . |
| 2 | The inference is therefore that the fish is either dead or cured by the time fungus gets around to colonising it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She felt depressed and frightened by the time the shop closed and she was able to go home . |
| 5 | I was slit-eyed and shivering by the time she was driven off . |
| 6 | How can I be sure that this year 's cures will not be in disgrace and condemned by the time you read about them ? |
| 7 | The three horses on the highway had been caught and tethered by the time Michael came back through the trees , leading the roan . |
| 8 | Those soldiers not incorporated into the FAA were meant to be disarmed and demobilized by the time the new army was established . |
| 9 | I was climbing up all these stairs to the office and thought by the time I get to her , I 'll be too puffed to dance properly . |
| 10 | I want to get sorted and ticking by the time that Dizzy and his pals arrive . |
| 11 | The national curriculum should do nothing but good if it is a means of ensuring that schools do not , for example , permit children to give up all science subjects at the age of thirteen , or fail to reach a reasonable competence in read g and calculating by the time they leave school . |
| 12 | She was there to answer when Cleopatra asked her who she was laughing at , and gone by the time she was supposed to say , ‘ Heigho ! |
| 13 | The doctor had been and gone by the time Maxim reached the little cottage on the hillside above Caswell 's father-in-law 's garage . |
| 14 | Those inmates classed as illiterate were obliged to take a compulsory form of basic education , with the aim that they would at least be able to read and write by the time they were released . |
| 15 | The Diocesan Advisory Committee and the local Planning Authority have given the go-ahead for a Faculty from the Chancellor of the Diocese to install a new heating system in St. John 's , and hopefully , it will be in and working by the time next winter comes . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | Is not that in marked contrast to the events of 25 years ago this very day , as reported by The Times , when the then Economic Affairs Minister warned the Confederation of British Industry that if it breached the inflation-wage restraint , there would be a prices and incomes policy ? |
| 18 | Finally , the politically important and influential newspapers were not the newspapers with the greatest circulation but the small circulation , élite ( political ) newspapers as exemplified by The Times . |
| 19 | Although people in the Cape Town ballet world thought highly of his promise , John 's talent as a choreographer was not regarded as proved by the time he left South Africa ( at only eighteen , why should it have been ? ) , and other young choreographers were at least as highly thought of . |
| 20 | They were often crewed by Revolutionary Guards , generally employing small arms , for hit-and-run attacks , as described by The Times early in 1988 : |