Example sentences of "[adj] and by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within 20 years the instrument will be brown and by the time it is 200 years old it will be virtually black . ’ |
| 2 | This amount is reduced by dividends received from the invested and by the investor 's share of invested 's losses . |
| 3 | ‘ I also had four days to be nervous and by the time the big day arrived I was all nervoused out . |
| 4 | ‘ Whoa ! ’ is constructed slyly , so from the outside it looks like it was made by tramps in their lunch hour , but in reality it is a nifto exercise in song-building that starts off quiet and nervous and by the end is running about the room shouting and pouring lager into flowerpots . |
| 5 | The de Veres ' change of heart , however , proved short-lived and by the end of the decade the family was again involved in opposition to Edward IV , this time in support of the earl of Warwick , whose sister Margaret had married the thirteenth earl of Oxford , John de Vere . |
| 6 | The de Veres ' change of heart , however , proved short-lived and by the end of the decade the family was again involved in opposition to Edward IV , this time in support of the earl of Warwick , whose sister Margaret had married the thirteenth earl of Oxford , John de Vere . |
| 7 | He sank into the waiting limo unshaven , crumpled , white-faced , nervous , shattered and by the time he got to the posh Beverly Hills Hotel , in need of the complimentary bottle of Scotch a thoughtful management had left in his room . |
| 8 | He had little success , however , in his efforts to persuade the Dutch that Sukarno was a man with whom they could do business and found himself a reluctant pig in the middle , reviled by one side as a fascist imperialist and by the other as an irresponsible revolutionary . |
| 9 | Turkish efforts to reverse the verdict between 1787 and 1791 were unavailing and by the Treaty of Jassy she was compelled to acknowledge Russian rule across the northern coast of the Black Sea . |
| 10 | This happened at a turning-point in Caribbean affairs , for in 1670 the Spanish accepted the inevitable and by the Treaty of Madrid acknowledged the English colonies in the West Indies as legitimate settlements , though the logging settlements on the central American mainland were left in an ill-defined position . |
| 11 | ‘ It was absolutely freezing and by the time we got the fish to the deeper water the carp sacks were frozen , ’ added Ian who also broke two landing nets during the rescue . |
| 12 | Despite such criticisms , the British found these courts useful and by the end of the century they had jurisdiction over most rural areas . |
| 13 | For most 18–30 's the night finishes quite late and by the end of two weeks you 'll probably find you 'll need a holiday . |
| 14 | These darkening extremities , or ‘ points ’ , then slowly spread as the young cat becomes mature and by the end of the first year the Siamese has its adult pattern , with the nose colour covering most of its face , the dark ear-fringe spreading to include most of its ear surface , the tail-tip colour extending right up to near the base of its tail , and the pigment at the feet stretching halfway up its legs . |
| 15 | Kinship networks in business became less important and by the end of the century , middle class wives and daughters no longer played an active role in the management of the small family business or shop . |
| 16 | The day was extremely hot and by the time Asik reached the river it was already very busy . |
| 17 | The Sprinter DMUs , conventionally engineered units built by BREL , Leyland and Metro-Cammell , Classes 150 , 151 , 154 , 155 , 156 and 158 , were considerably more successful and by the end of the decade in charge of the mainstay of Provincial services literally from Wick to Penzance . |
| 18 | They were extremely successful and by the summer of 1988 student presentations had reached 6471 from 39 colleges and 5029 from 123 secondary schools . |
| 19 | Throughout the week you come upon games which you see as vital and by the end of the week you have had so many vital games that you have forgotten some of them but one which definitely stood out was the fourball between Howard Clark and Mark James and Curtis Strange and Payne Stewart . |
| 20 | Illegitimate births formed only a small number of the total registered births before 1750 , but by the end of the eighteenth century an illegitimacy ratio of 5 per cent was common and by the middle of the nineteenth century 20 per cent was often the norm . |
| 21 | Originally there were to be two of these , one for the preparation of a general statute and one to deal with local variations , but the arrangement proved unworkable and by the end of April 1859 there were four , each with responsibility for both the general and the particular aspects of its field . |
| 22 | In iron-containing R2 the positive charge of +6 from the two ferric ions is compensated by the two negative charges of the bridging O 2- and by the liganding Asp84 , Glu115 , Glu204 and Glu238 ( ref. 6 ) . |