Example sentences of "[be] that by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the chances are that by the time the market picks up again in 1991 we will be back to the 1983 figure . |
| 2 | The effect will be that by the year 2000 nuclear energy should overtake oil as France 's main fuel , with oil consumption falling by 26% , representing a considerable reduction in the cost of importing energy . |
| 3 | It may be that by the end of the century , when we are carrying all before us , some fair-minded matron will survey her predominantly female team and announce that the time has come for a Ministry for Men . |
| 4 | 17.33 With regard to spelling , the aim should be that by the end of compulsory schooling pupils should be able to spell confidently most of the words they are likely to need to use frequently in their writing ; to recognise those aspects of English spelling that are systematic ; to make a sensible attempt to spell words that they have not seen before ; to check their work for misspellings and to use a dictionary appropriately . |
| 5 | All the indications were that by the end of 1991 the Soviet economy would have registered a severe , possibility catastrophic deterioration . |
| 6 | I was heartened to see that one of the slogans on London East TEC 's letterhead is : ’ Our vision is that by the year 2000 , the East side of London should be as prosperous as the West side ’ — that seems to be an excellent vision for London East TEC . |
| 7 | What emerges from these scantily recorded years is that by the time of the first minuted meeting , in January 1907 , and which was probably held in the manager 's office at the Henley branch of Reading bankers , J. and C. Simonds , much work towards the Club 's formation had already been accomplished . |
| 8 | The problem with lists is that by the time you write item number three , you have completely forgotten about item number one , and so on . |
| 9 | I was a New Man before New Men had capital letters , but I feel like an Old Man these days , and all I can think is that by the time this one is through university I 'll be nearly sixty . |
| 10 | Instead , the real lyrical problem is that by the time you arrive at the two rather superfluous closing tracks , She 's A Weirdo ’ and ‘ Paula ’ , the story of all these nightown expeditions is scurrying round in circles and since the music is n't boosted to insensate lift-off , we 're all back where we started . |
| 11 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 12 | Central to child-rearing from the cultural point of view , as we have seen , is that by the time he is six or seven the child should have been able to recapitulate within his own personal psychological development the development history of his culture . |
| 13 | Gemma 's parents are less optimistic — their immediate target is that by the time she starts school next Easter , there will be something she can eat . |
| 14 | The idea is that by the time of the next Euro elections in 18 months , better knowledge of the EC and particularly of the role of MEPs will improve Tory fortunes at the polls . |
| 15 | The law has come too late for Anna McGurk , all her parents can now hope is that by the passing of this bill , some good will finally have come from her death . |
| 16 | The British opinion , for what it was worth , was that by no stretch of the imagination was Bao Dai 's régime in de facto control ( they also warned the Americans that Schuman would claim that the French had gone as far as they could in Vietnam without creating trouble in French North Africa ) . |
| 17 | Radcliffe-Brown 's lifelong conviction was that by a kind of Newtonian revolution , replacing the historical speculations of ethnology by a scientific methodology , social anthropology might become ‘ a theoretical natural science of society ’ , in a sociological tradition he traced to Montesquieu , Comte , Herbert Spencer [ q.v. ] , and Durkheim . |
| 18 | The result was that by the middle of 1990 , both companies were finding sales of their established ‘ bread-and-butter ’ linguistic product lines seriously eroded . |
| 19 | The only problem was that by the time you had finished the slide show at the end of the evening you were covered from fingertips to armpits in coloured ink and oil and all the gunge associated with it . |
| 20 | The trouble was that by the time he knew Mosley was a serious electoral threat to his position , it was almost too late . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The result of that was that by the time I 'd rushed across the road , dashed up the stair well found the place , dashed up the stairs , I was out of breath and er had n't composed myself and I just res resembled a quivering blob that er |
| 23 | So it was that by the time Hugh and Twoflower entered the courtyard of the Broken Drum the leaders of a number of them were aware that someone had arrived in the city who appeared to have much treasure . |
| 24 | The reason for selecting the figure US$2m. was that by the end of January 1992 the sum in court together with accrued interest had grown to U.S.$2½m. and U.S.$½m. would be fully sufficient to satisfy any claims of the shipowners , charterers and other commercial parties . |
| 25 | His researches go back to the 1950s : ‘ I was always fascinated by history — I spent five years as an architecture student and the reason why I did n't get through was that by the end I was much more interested in the history of architecture than other aspects of the subject , ’ he recalls . |
| 26 | The trouble was that by the end of the eighteenth century times were unstable . |
| 27 | The consequence of this was that by the end of the decade the Unilever detergent and one other brand had captured 90 per cent of the market in Barbados . |
| 28 | One of the most systematic surveys to be undertaken was that by the Policy Studies Institute ( Brown , 1982 ) . |