Example sentences of "of [noun] by [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor was there proper central control over the building and maintenance of fortifications , many of which were sadly out-of-date or in bad need of repair by the time that the English began to invade France . |
| 2 | The carcass , unfortunately , was in quite an advanced state of decomposition by the time we got to it , so we could not look at the detailed histology ( cell structure ) of the internal organs or the central nervous system . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'll be quite a good sort of person by the time you return from the Future , supposing you do return , of course , because I did n't like the sound of that spell , did you ? |
| 4 | We were in a mild state of shock by the time we arrived at the bottom . |
| 5 | He was out of breath by the time he had canted her back , ground her round , settled the chair on the rough track again . |
| 6 | Edward had dropped the whole cargo of gifts by the time he had got down the twenty iron rungs of the ladder . |
| 7 | But once Naas Botha equalised in kind , the tourists edged ahead and were out of sight by the time Danie Gerber scored their fourth try in the last minute . |
| 8 | Widnes were back to a full complement of players by the time Tony Thorniley scored Warrington 's second , again from an inspired Mackey pass , but the visitors were powerless to prevent the centre reaching the line from 25 yards . |
| 9 | An understanding of this should have been well and truly introduced into the minds of children by the time they are old enough to play such games as those which simulate parental behaviour . |
| 10 | I had a very good knowledge of Edinburgh by the time I was five . |
| 11 | They proved almost useless , for the ebb and flow of the fighting hindered the collection of accurate information , and such as was gleaned was usually out of date by the time of its transmission . |
| 12 | We emphasis that the information available at press date may become out of date by the time of publication , but we believe that this will apply only if additional deployments are announced or revealed . |
| 13 | The aim was to improve on the situation inbuilt in manual systems whereby information is sampled at intervals and may be several weeks out of date by the time it has been assembled . |
| 14 | Those rates may be completely out of date by the time a statement of the special damages claimed is drawn up , and even more so by the time the action is tried . |
| 15 | Those calculations might be out of date by the time the application is made . |
| 16 | The historical analysis also charts trends in the degree of consensus of approach existing between the parties , highlighting an increased level of agreement by the time of the second direct elections to the European Parliament in 1984 . |
| 17 | You 'll have a lot of headache by the time I 've finished . |