Example sentences of "the [noun sg] by [art] time " in BNC.

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1 His statement implies that we are not yet out of the recession , so let us borrow some more , increase the PSBR , and do the Keynesian thing which , a few years ago , we did not think we should do , and perhaps that will get us out of the recession by the time of the election .
2 If that were the case , then atavistic professional instincts and the terrifying imminence of the first night would ensure that he knew the part by the time they opened .
3 The coaching stock was six or eight a side compartment type with sliding top lights , it was warm in the carriage by the time the tunnel was reached , so a top light was opened .
4 Hankin promised : ‘ I will have eight or nine youngsters in the side by the time we play Exeter in our final match .
5 Cheaper than the car by the time you 've paid petrol there and back again .
6 And are n't most mothers in the 90s planning to return to some form of work outside the home by the time their youngest child is at school full-time ?
7 They first showed that the inhibitor had no effect on the rats ' ability to swim in general , nor , if the animals had already learned the maze by the time it was injected , did it prevent them from swimming it correctly .
8 When he saw it , he was downstairs , ready to get into the vehicle by the time it had stopped , and the director had got out .
9 Sam and Doone were already in the boatyard by the time I 'd found my way there , neither of them radiating joy , Sam 's multicoloured jacket only emphasising the personality clash with grey plain clothes .
10 It is difficult now to imagine the splendour which the vast incrustation of ornaments must have presented to the eye by the time the church was complete .
11 Many of the populace had fled the town by the time when , on one hot Summer 's day , Ben and Charley purchased some cheap fruit in Devonport Market , unaware that the town crier had already warned off buying it .
12 But with three Tests to follow in the Republic Kapil should be on the verge of the record by the time England arrive in India after Christmas .
13 I often wished later that I had named Trotsky instead , because his principles were more in accord with the way I felt about the place by the time I left , but at that time I had never even heard of him .
14 ‘ There wo n't be a dry eye in the place by the time you 've finished , ’ she murmured .
15 She launched herself through the doorway and was safely behind the skip by the time the first bullets rattled against it .
16 divide the distance by the time hundred and forty three divided by two point seven equals fifty two point nine round off to the nearest whole number that would be ?
17 That Pericles ' maternal relatives , the noble family of the Alkmaionidai , were enemies of Themistokles ( as they certainly were is no objection to this view : Pericles ' father had already distanced himself from the Alkmaionidai by the time of his ostracism in 484 ( Ath .
18 On the other hand a child who was brought up to be bilingual in French and English or who had a natural facility for ‘ picking up ’ languages could romp through his spoken French grades and have reached the top by the time he was 16 , while perhaps having achieved lower grades both in written French and in other more literary aspects of the subject .
19 And although ‘ workerism ’ was on the wane by the time Hayling turned up on the Langley personnel officer 's doorstep , he earned many brownie points among the comrades by becoming a ‘ genuine ’ member of the proletariat .
20 ‘ Not only do we measure the movement by the time , but also the time by the movement , because they define each other .
21 It is recommended that the loan set should be transferred to the Library by the time building work commences on the Herbarium/Library extension in 1993 .
22 Already she was tired , and by the looks of the flat by the time she was finished she would be exhausted .
23 She had always left the flat by the time Claudia came home , and she knew her sister was with Roman , and the dull despair that lived with her permanently would deepen a little more as she tidied the theatre programmes or the menu from an exclusive restaurant .
24 They 'd had their one hit with ‘ Guns Of Navarone ’ and he was the toaster by the time they were doing the small-time club circuit .
25 ‘ Well , I 'm in fer a right 'idin' if I ai n't got that bleedin' contraption out o' the 'ouse by the time my Joshua comes 'ome , ‘ specially if 'e 's bin on the turps again .
26 The problem is to create the demand for the gas by the time the pipeline is completed .
27 She discussed the problem with Tom but he suggested she should bide her time , adding , ‘ The navvies will have finished the road by the time Anna 's wedding comes around .
28 In answer to those who might claim that the perverse approach to this particular movement illustrates that the conductor had lost his grip on the orchestra by the time of this recording , I can only say that the playing of the New Philharmonia is magnificent .
29 A strategy 's niceness is recognized by its behaviour , not by its motives ( for it has none ) nor by the personality of its author ( who has faded into the background by the time the program is running in the computer ) .
30 This was still very much the situation by the time I went to Bristol .
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