Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] by [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the nuclear industry had by this time received yet a further green light . |
| 2 | Lukács ' early assault on Marxist economism , subsequently retracted under criticism from the Leninist orthodoxy of the Comintern , became particularly influential in the post-war period among Marxist intellectuals who sought to redefine a new Marxist humanism against the economism of Stalinism with which Lukács ' name had by that time itself become associated . |
| 3 | Goebbels 's propaganda had by this time in any case lost practically all credibility . |
| 4 | Whilst exports to the dollar area rose by three times in current terms between 1947 and 1951 , as a share of total exports the increase ( from 11.5 to 14.5 per cent ) was only marginal . |
| 5 | The Principal had by this time become almost as fluorescent as the neon sign outside his academy , and we eyeballed one another in a spirit entirely lacking in camaraderie . |
| 6 | The science of astronomy had by this time totally undermined the old Ptolemaic system . |
| 7 | The carving had by this time become careless and clumsy . |
| 8 | The papacy had by this time lost most of its former immense temporal power . |
| 9 | Worse , although carbon dioxide was used to extinguish the initial blaze , the fire had by that time spread into the adjacent reactor building . |
| 10 | Her Black Sea fleet had by this time been destroyed , the allies had landed not only in the Crimea but also at Nikolaev to the west and Novorossiisk to the east , and the Turks retained a position at Sukhumi which gave them the chance of counter-attacking in the direction of Tiflis . |