Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] by [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 1560 , this new English church was engaged in the task of establishing its traditions and defining its boundaries , a process which lasted well over a century and was only effectively completed by the end of the seventeenth century . |
| 2 | ( The tablets on which it was recorded were discovered in the mid nineteenth century , and their decipherment was only largely completed by the end of that century ) . |
| 3 | A unanimous March 1990 decision to return the headquarters of the League from Tunis to Cairo [ see p. 37334 ] led , however , to a serious dispute in September when it was decided to speed up the transfer , which was largely completed by the end of October [ see p. 37726 ] . |
| 4 | For the H-bomb , carried in long-range bombers which took several hours to fly from base to target , was already outdated by the end of the Fifties . |
| 5 | Within this regime , as it already existed by the end of the Civil War , the salient features were the prominent , but in no sense governing role of the FET ; the restoration of the Catholic Church to a position of monopoly in education and of powerful cultural influence ; the ruthless repression of all forms of opposition ; and above all , the unassailable position and total dominance of Franco himself . |
| 6 | Although these had largely recovered by the end of 1986 , the experience was recent in memory and confidence had not completely returned . |
| 7 | The structure of local government existing immediately before the changes in the 1960s and 1970s was , therefore , largely settled by the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | The revolution had already begun by the end of the seventeenth century and its first candidate was the big , rangy Longhorn . |
| 9 | All we ask is that all fees are finally paid by the end of January . |
| 10 | The two MLAs were finally released by the end of the week and six Naxalites facing charges under the Terrorists and Disruptive Activities ( Prevention ) Act were released on bail . |
| 11 | Once expected by the end of last year , and the subject of technology demonstrations earlier this year , the exact scope of CICS/6000 is still not clear , but it is expected to include a number of technology elements from other vendors , including MicroFocus Cobol , parts of the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment ( DCE ) technology , and Transarc Corp 's Encina transaction processing software , developed with IBM 's backing . |
| 12 | Such a role , which inevitably involves the dollar 's use as a reserve currency , is the product of US industrial and financial power , and was hardly eroded by the end of dollar convertibility and of the fixed exchange rate system . |
| 13 | If his voice had been alright at the beginning of his performance , and yet he could hardly speak by the end , then it must be a result of something that he was doing while reciting that was causing the problem . |
| 14 | President Lee Teng-hui announced on Dec. 25 that the government of the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) would formally rescind by the end of May 1991 the " temporary provisions effective during the period of Communist rebellion " . |
| 15 | She was always running by the end of this dream , running away from the house , uphill towards the railway line . |
| 16 | Indeed , it says it 's working on an Asynchronous Transfer Mode SBus adaptor board , also expected by the end of the year , for use in Sparcsystem 1 , 2 , and 10 workstations : occupying a single SBus slot , it will support the Local SONET Synchronous Optical Network 155Mbps Physical Layer as defined by the Asynchronous Transfer Mode Forum . |
| 17 | Silicon for a 75Mhz R4000 microprocessor , the R4000A , is also expected by the end of October , according to Andy Keane , microprocessor manager at SGI 's MIPS Technologies unit . |
| 18 | The company will also decide by the end of the year on the location for a completely new plant to fabricate the planned P6 and P7 microprocessors . |
| 19 | Construction of the Sighthill Bypass commenced in September 1984 and with work substantially complete by the end of 1986 it is being opened to traffic some nine months ahead of programme . |
| 20 | Construction of the Gilmerton Bypass commenced in February 1988 and with work substantially complete by the end of 1989 it is being opened to traffic some eight months ahead of programme and within the target date of 1990 for the entire Bypass . |
| 21 | According to Hille , research and development spending for new products stands at 15 per cent compared with 85 per cent for existing products : this would be an even split by the end of the year , he said . |
| 22 | The Scottish arrangements were well established by the end of the nineteenth century ; in Wales the pattern has evolved since the 1950s . |
| 23 | The West End/East End distinction in trades like shoe making and tailoring was well established by the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 24 | He went on to say : ‘ Student numbers in Scotland have increased by a remarkable 25 per cent since 1983 to nearly 110,000 and we fully expect by the end of the century that more than 40 per cent of young Scots will enter higher education . |
| 25 | Tony French , of University College London , expressed concern that , if present trends continue , there is a danger that the shrinking Aral Sea will have virtually disappeared by the end of the century . |
| 26 | The weekend was all too much for Peckett 2087 which had virtually failed by the end of Monday , but managed to carry out its demonstration goods train duties on both days . |
| 27 | Marx and Engels and , for that matter , Morgan and their other sources , were in no way peculiar in this belief ; they were representatives of a current of opinion that was almost universally accepted by the end of the nineteenth-century . |
| 28 | I arrived ten minutes later for dinner with Howard and was completely recovered by the end of the meal . |
| 29 | My preconceived ideas about this course , which was held at Manchester University , were completely erased by the end of the first evening . |
| 30 | It is estimated that the ozone layer over northern Europe will have been considerably damaged by the end of the century . |