Example sentences of "[coord] by then the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The festival at Cropredy started as a reunion concert when the band split up … they reformed six years ago and by then the annual event was well established … each year present and past members line up … |
| 2 | This was in 1785 and by then the major mines were so deep that a ladder climb to the surface could take an hour . |
| 3 | It was n't until 25 minutes later that he remembered — and by then the former Miss England had drowned in two feet of muddy water . |
| 4 | There is a bottomless pit of money there and by then the same might apply in Japan or America . |
| 5 | It was an hour later that they came back and by then the Jewish family had let me know exactly what was happening in Germany , and my game had become rather more serious . |
| 6 | His flight had left New York three hours after the Paris flight and by then the worst of the turbulence over the Atlantic had dissipated so he had been able to sleep for most of the journey . |
| 7 | But by then the Soviet Union no longer had any faith in the sincerity of a government which it believed had encouraged Fascism for many years . |
| 8 | But by then the political tide had shifted firmly against it . |
| 9 | But by then the military phase of the Emergency was nearly over , and apart from the odd border patrol , the Masai were given no further opportunity to distinguish themselves in battle . |
| 10 | as Younger did in January 1922 , that a coalition could best carry through the policies that Unionists wanted , but by then the main Unionist demands were directed against Labour anyway . |
| 11 | — and finished the scene , but by then the outraged governess had flounced out of the room . |
| 12 | But by then the three American managers hope to have turned the company , and their 15% stake , into something worth owning . |