Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlie Malone , a shop steward and one of the sacked workers , promised that by the end of the campaign there would be 300 fewer people on the dole . |
| 2 | The report found that by the end of April this year , ADAS had not agreed a corporate plan with the Ministry of Agriculture covering both the service 's commercial and public good work . |
| 3 | ( 1984 ) found that by the end of therapy about half of couples showed significant improvement and approximately one-third of couples appeared to be non-distressed . |
| 4 | On Oct. 29 the Council of ( Environment and Energy ) Ministers agreed that by the year 2000 the EC as a whole should stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide ( CO2 ) , a key greenhouse gas , at levels no higher than those of 1990 . |
| 5 | One non-commissioned officer , writing home , said he presumed that by the time his letter arrived ‘ the bells throughout the whole of Germany would be announcing the victory over the mightiest enemy of civilization . |
| 6 | Complaints had been received from local residents that their wash-houses were being abused , and he expected that by the end of his beat at 6 a.m. he would be busy enough . |
| 7 | Keynote speaker Andy Grove , CEO of Intel , announced that by the end of this year , every PC user would have access to software based video compression and decompression . |
| 8 | The Christians believed that by the death of Jesus , the suffering servant of Isaiah , God had formed a new covenant not only with the Jews but with all peoples of the earth . |
| 9 | The World Bank 's World Debt Tables , published on Dec. 19 , estimated that by the end of the year lenders would in 1990 have committed some $9,000 million in net new lending to borrowers — the amount by which total lending and investment aid exceeded the total paid to lenders in capital repayments , interest and profits . |
| 10 | In an interview with Mark Paytress in 1988 Leonard stated that by the age of six he was already acquainted with rudimentary Judaism and recalled being deeply touched by the stirring language and imagery of the Bible - in English and Hebrew . |
| 11 | In December , 12 new proposals were submitted by members or by groups of countries , and GATT stated that by the end of 1989 a total of 14 proposals ( from 28 countries ) had been put forward on the question of standards and norms alone and nine ( from 23 countries ) on the question of enforcement of IPRs , while a large number of other proposals dealt with further important aspects of the negotiating brief . |
| 12 | Another book claimed that by the end of the First World War much of the old prejudice against women having an equal place with men in society had gone . |
| 13 | The industry 's multi-processing unit gurus assembled at the Microprocessor Forum in California last month , looked into their crystal balls and predicted that by the middle of the decade a typical high-end microprocessor would run at 250MHz-300MHz with about 64Kb of on-chip cache and a maximum issue rate of 4–6 instructions a cycle , double today 's leading silicon . |
| 14 | Best said : ‘ Fergie 's a tough man and he showed that by the way he 's handled Ryan Giggs . |
| 15 | This envisaged that by the end of this century there would be 104 gigawatts ( 1,000 million watts ) of nuclear capacity , including 33 GW of fast breeder reactors . |
| 16 | Shipping circles indicated that by the end of the month , despite the damage , operations were still possible , as in 1984s at the T-jetty where tankers loaded for shuttling crude to the makeshift terminals at Lavan and Sirri Islands down the Gulf . |
| 17 | ‘ The plan was to have 100 people working by the end of 1992 but we 've been so successful that we achieved that by the end of 1989 , ’ McWilliams claims . |
| 18 | HMI pointed out that the arrangements for choice meant that by the mid-point of the third year , some youngsters had decided to discontinue study of a particular subject — at a point only three-fifths of the way through what was presumably a coherently planned five-year course . |
| 19 | All this is important because it meant that by the end of the 1930s British town planning was in a stronger position than would have been thought likely , to respond to the national emergency of physical destruction , which led to an unprecedented period of planned rebuilding . |
| 20 | The effect of this decision , together with the targeting of the leaders of Operation Rescue , meant that by the end of the month the protests had subsided . |
| 21 | So it meant that by the end of the war , the railway stock , the carriages , locomotives and all that was on their last stages . |
| 22 | I started sending out a ‘ ten , thirty — three ’ , the Citizen Band S.O.S. , on channel 1 but I knew that by the time I got through all 40 channels , Danny 's truck would be on the Motorway and we would lose it . |
| 23 | He watched the slim body of Samantha dive into the pool and thought that by the time she came of an age for love he would no doubt be drifting round eternity in the unwelcome company of his wife with all rogering out of the question . |
| 24 | But he also remembered that by the time he left school he was ‘ a thoroughly political animal ’ . |
| 25 | And you said that by the end of next week you will you will have done those and know whether you want them and whether the companies probably yes ? |
| 26 | Interior Ministry troops , who had come under fire from rooftop snipers , later succeeded in throwing a cordon around the CP headquarters to protect it from further attack , but Moscow radio reports said that by the evening of Feb. 13 the violence had spread from the city centre to numerous locations in the suburbs , and that automatic gunfire could be heard . |
| 27 | I did n't think she was ever going to be as appealing as Frances , but I hoped that by the end of the book she would be a little more appealing than she had been at the beginning . ’ |
| 28 | He calculated that by the age of 65 the deceased would have put £18,000 into his firm in working capital ; this would have been repayable and would ultimately have come to the widow and her daughter . |