Example sentences of "[be] [adj] by the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be dry by the time we leave for the dance . ’ |
| 2 | She 'll be asleep by the time we get |
| 3 | It can take at least two to three months if not longer to buy a house and any deal initiated during a housing trip may not be complete by the time the expatriate and family arrives in Britain . |
| 4 | This implies that there is a good chance the processing of the first record will be complete by the time that the second record is located , so that skip-sequential processing win provide benefits . |
| 5 | So the fringe players such as Preston , Ellis , Bachop , Cooksley and Dowd might have a very quiet tour of Australia , and thus not be march-hardened by the time they move into the five-match tour of South Africa . |
| 6 | You 'll be fine by the time Jim and Ellis turn up and you 'll have a nice evening poring over clues . |
| 7 | I ca n't leave this and we 'll all be starving by the time we reach temperature . ’ |
| 8 | Planning permission has been granted by the South Shropshire District Council and further details will be available by the time of the A.G.M. ( see below ) . |
| 9 | It 'd be knackered by the time it gets down to the Cocks Terry , from here . |
| 10 | He 'll be knackered by the time he , when he gets back . |
| 11 | The employer may have reached this decision on purely strategic , rather than personal or malicious , grounds The employer may calculate , for instance , that a real commercial benefit can only be derived from gaining a market lead in a highly competitive sector ( such as electronics or fibre optics ) with a new product that would otherwise be obsolescent by the time the patent filing and examination process has run its course . |
| 12 | ( STOP PRESS : A 5th July 1992 opening date has been suggested — our museum may be open by the time you receive this Journal ! ) |
| 13 | Keith Briars , Northern director of the Resettlement Agency , said 82 alternative places were being provided , 64 of which would be open by the time Plawsworth closed . |
| 14 | If separate bags of nuts , bran , oats and sugar beet for instance are used , all will be stale by the time they are finished . |
| 15 | Selwyn would be ready by the time he returned . |
| 16 | But it should be ready by the time the trees are loaded with the beautiful blushing white blossoms . |
| 17 | ‘ It 'll be ready by the time you 've worked out which cutlery to use . ’ |
| 18 | She felt better for having made that decision ; perhaps her car would be ready by the time she came back . |
| 19 | A Whitehall spokesman said the investigation would be extremely thorough and a decision should be ready by the time Yousefi comes up for parole after a third of his sentence . |
| 20 | She could be dead by the time children 's television started or , if not dead , at least well on the way to it . |
| 21 | He was obviously drunk or drugged when he wrote it , but it indicates that he expects to be dead by the time i read it . |
| 22 | I may be dead by the time you come back . " |
| 23 | Mr Horn called for the resignation of the six men , warning he could be dead by the time they read the letters . |