Example sentences of "[conj] by [art] time [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life as a second lieutenant in the Guards with little prospect of action did not appeal , although by the time the Germans invaded France in May 1940 , Stirling was in Chamonix training with a force of experienced skiers who were to be sent to help the Finns . |
| 2 | They claim that by the time a pushchair is passed on to a second or third child it 's brakes are often defective . |
| 3 | And the chances are that by the time the market picks up again in 1991 we will be back to the 1983 figure . |
| 4 | Veyrat promises that by the time the first of 20 £40,000 sports cars are built by June 1001 , weight will still be under 2000lb and acceleration electrifying . |
| 5 | An inquest in Lancaster had earlier been told that by the time the information was received , Lancashire Police had spent £250,000 investigating what they thought was the murder of John Threlfall , 18 . |
| 6 | What hostility did not do was deflect him from his purpose , so that by the time the regime fell in 1870 Paris had been altered for ever and bore the mark of Napoleon III . |
| 7 | so that by the time the eastern goods reached the Mediterranean only the most uninspiring of the diamonds were left . |
| 8 | The process is so effective that by the time the molecules reach the top of the outer tube , they are arranged in a series of concentric rings , each representing one type of molecule or cell . |
| 9 | Government policies are so short-term that by the time the recession is over , the country 's industrial base will have been destroyed , and we could end up with a Third World economy . |
| 10 | At the emotional level , this can mean that the personal involvement is engaged ahead of the action , and that by the time the manipulation is actually taking effect , its originator can sit back and observe what she has set in motion . |
| 11 | If we look at Figure 4.6 , which represents a trip to the supermarket , it suggests that by the time the person leaves home they are already a little anxious about the trip perhaps as a result of their previous difficulties with this task . |
| 12 | The reasonable interpretation of their experience seems to demand that by the time the chain had reached them the actual result of the observation had become fixed . |
| 13 | This difference increased with the age of the youngest child in the family , so that by the time the latter had reached 11 years old still only 44 per cent of the mothers of disabled children were in paid work compared with 87 per cent of control group mothers . |
| 14 | And the outcome of that was that by the time the boys reached the hut where they lived with their grandfather , they had clean forgotten what the sun-god told them to do . |
| 15 | The potential for the first management of the ‘ wildwood ’ may have been under-appreciated by researchers in the past , so that by the time the first people with a knowledge of agriculture arrived from Europe in the period before 4000 BC , the landscape may already have been greatly altered . |
| 16 | But in the ensuing duet for Balstrode and Grimes , this motif gets so entangled with Grimes 's personal strife and obstinate nature that by the time the " Storm " interlude itself begins ( with a variant of the fugue subject ) we may genuinely wonder whether the hurricane is not as much an inward as an outward affair . |
| 17 | Parents also argue that by the time the results of the SATS are published their children will already have chosen their GCSE subjects . |
| 18 | An MP says that by the time the technology 's developed , Britain wo n't have a coal industry . |
| 19 | Now , we hear time and time again of the one million capital that was spent and yes and I do hope that the provisions that will now be made through a combined budget which Mr seems to think is half a million but I can assure you it is not half a million however , I do I can further reassure him that by the time the Highfields er and Moat management committee have gone through with this it will be half a million , there will be a proper budget provision as it should have been in the last five to six years . |
| 20 | Most lenders waited until payments were three to six months in arrears before seeking repossession orders , and by the time a court order was granted most families had moved out . |
| 21 | Referring issues to a named individual is not advised unless a dispute has already arisen , because some time may pass after the making of the original contract containing the reference to the specifically named individual , and by the time a dispute arises that individual may have died , retired , become ill , have a conflict of interest or be otherwise unavailable or unsuitable . |
| 22 | Martin Cruz Smith is a dab hand at beginnings , as readers of Gorky Park will remember ; but he tends to fumble his middle sections , and by the time the climax arrives he 's all fingers and thumbs . |
| 23 | The club , by now had spilled out into a sort of annexe conservatory at the back of the room and by the time the summer arrived , people were spilling out into the garden and , in fact , used to come into the club by this route illegally . |
| 24 | He wanted to do a bit before New York and it worked because before the tour started , there was very little interest in New York , but it sold out in Cleveland which we knew it would , and both shows were great , by which time word got back to New York instantly , as it does , and by the time the show at Carnegie Hall happened , it was sold out . |
| 25 | From the moment the tapes rose Crisp was in the front rank , and by the time the field swept over Becher 's Brook — the sixth fence — he was sharing the lead with Grey Sombrero . |
| 26 | The Socialist Workers ' formation heckle team numbered about five and by the time the egg-throwers had been apprehended , they were down to three . |
| 27 | The painful contractions started before I reached the ward and by the time the ward nurse had brought me 2 paracetamol , I needed to go back to the delivery suite ! |
| 28 | The defendants arrested on 5 October were appearing at Derry courthouse and by the time the hearing was in progress , a crowd of about one hundred had gathered outside . |
| 29 | Australian railways took up and developed the Italianate style which had been so influential in Britain and the United States earlier in the century , and by the time the principal Australian stations were built , classical was in style once more . |
| 30 | However , Mr Lewis 's engagingly informal manner , and his statement at dinner that the United States ‘ would always stand on the side of justice and did n't mind admitting mistakes had been made at Versailles ’ seemed to do much to win the confidence of his lordship 's ‘ home team' ; as dinner progressed , the conversation had slowly but surely turned from topics such as the merits of Mr Lewis 's native Pennsylvania back to the conference ahead , and by the time the gentlemen were lighting their cigars , some of the speculations being offered appeared to be as intimate as those exchanged prior to Mr Lewis 's arrival . |