Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , they were so bad in the one matinee performance in which they were tried out , that the original speeches were reinstated by the time the curtain went up at the Globe Theatre that evening . |
| 2 | But in both cases the pre-raid recces were not much help on the night , for Milner-Gibson 's compass failed and the German dispositions on Guernsey were changed by the time of the raid . |
| 3 | We have already identified this as a problem but at least the opportunity for manipulation was constrained by the time it would take to receive the invoice . |
| 4 | Quite often the form was outdated by the time it was finally authorized and the clerks would tell the luckless petitioner to start all over again . |
| 5 | A cyclone which struck southern districts on June 2 was reported by The Times of June 3 to have killed 500 people . |
| 6 | One unusual communications medium employed on the battlefield was reported by The Times . |
| 7 | Only one decision was made by the time I reached London — I was going to buy nothing blue , and I was going to let my hair grow long . |
| 8 | The founder stressed the importance of instruction in Latin , Greek , and Hebrew , and the school was built by the time of Judde 's death and endowed with property worth £60 3s. 8d. a year . |
| 9 | PP : Initially we had a prologue in which Peter Grimes 's father appeared on his death-bed , in which he solemnly cursed his son ; but it became apparent fairly soon that this was not a very good idea and the prologue was reshaped by the time we arrived back in England . |
| 10 | Er sometimes the police , if , if there was a police station near , they would phone a message through but er quite of quite often and then you 'd , you 'd get there and often you 'd hear the baby was born by the time you got there . |
| 11 | Magellan refused , of course — except that he was evidently frustrated enough at the lack of success in finding a way through to promise that if no strait was found by the time they had eaten up another 25° of latitude , he would turn east as they wished . |
| 12 | A spare car was in Chamonix and Emerson was the one who went to fetch it , so that he was exhausted by the time free practice began on Thursday afternoon . |
| 13 | On the other hand , although I was exhausted by the time I arrived in Sydney , having lost the equivalent of two nights ' sleep , it was not unproductive in terms of collecting tennis news . |
| 14 | I was exhausted by the time that ‘ An Evening without John McCarthy ’ arrived , but the venue , the Camden Palace , was n't far from my flat and , prompted by nerves , I turned up early , about an hour before things were due to begin . |
| 15 | Like Nadia , I married young — at 19 — and was divorced by the time I 'd reached my mid-20s . |
| 16 | Same thing affected the Prodraw review , and the contents page was printed by the time its new position had been determined . |
| 17 | Sometimes he seemed to act almost as his " representative on earth " ; when Cecil Day Lewis was asked by The Times to compose Eliot 's obituary , he suggested to Hayward that they collaborate upon it . |
| 18 | When the bas-relief on a newly-opened post office was reviewed by The Times , the newspaper 's art correspondent commented with some inspiration , ‘ The design consists of a male and female nude , recumbent , but with a suggestion that they are floating in water . |
| 19 | Little enough daylight was left by the time Pedro came skulking back , and for most of the evening she had sat , talking to him , stroking the soft rug of his ear between tense fingers , and waiting for the fit to come again . |
| 20 | The broadsheet idea , or at least the name , was borrowed by The Times newspaper in the First World War , when it organised the printing and distribution of literary extracts , reminiscent of home , for the comfort of the troops . |
| 21 | As we have seen , some of the radicalism inherent in Howe 's 1978 speech was dissipated by the time enterprise zones were given legal status in 1980 . |
| 22 | But the image of Dinah would not leave him , and was strengthened by the times he visited the theatre and saw her in the flesh . |
| 23 | In contrast , in both of the earlier studies structural integration was virtually impossible without knowing the overall theme , so that most of the information contained in the passage was lost by the time the important contextual/thematic information was supplied . |
| 24 | Dr Gillian Sutherland 's book Ability , Merit and Measurement has shown how testing in some ways preceded theoretical elaborations of the intelligence quotient — and how this was established by the time of the Spens report of 1938 . |
| 25 | The station of the latter , completed in 1915 , was described by the Times Book of Argentina as ‘ the finest of its kind south of the Equator and in point of convenience and completeness challenges comparison with any in the world ’ . |
| 26 | Philip Gould nudged stony-faced Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega out of army fatigues and into cowboy boots ; the same Philip Gould was described by The Times as having ‘ helped save the Labour Party more than £500,000 at the last election ’ . |
| 27 | In what was described by The Times of April 20 as " the worst crisis in relations between the two NATO allies " , 15 Turkish diplomats were withdrawn from the Turkish embassy in Bonn , West Germany , and eight West German diplomats were expelled from Ankara . |
| 28 | An ethnic Estonian born Aleksei Ridiger in 1923 in Tallinn ( then in independent Estonia ) , he was described by The Times of June 5 as " a populist figure with a reformist reputation " . |
| 29 | The congress elected as the union 's new chair Eduard Sagalayev , a former head of Soviet Central Television 's main current affairs unit , who was described by The Times of Feb. 8 as a " leading advocate of free speech and Western-style news reporting " . |
| 30 | A working visit on Feb. 11 to Bonn , Germany , by UK Prime Minister John Major was described by The Times of Feb. 12 as marking the start of " a new era of close co-operation " . |