Example sentences of "by now the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The predators that preyed on the giants were even more spectacular , and by now the name of Tyrannosaurus is so well-known that it seems to be one of the first tongue-twisters mastered by small children . |
2 | Thomas was by now the delight of his cast who appreciated his avuncular style , so different from the more urbane Peter Rogers . |
3 | By now the sounds of his waking hours were familiar to the boy curled up in an army greatcoat in the room below . |
4 | By now the whole of Funchal is a mass of colour from over 100,000 coloured light bulbs . |
5 | By now the whole of downtown Morpork was alight , and the richer and worthier citizens of Ankh on the far bank were bravely responding to the situation by feverishly demolishing the bridges . |
6 | In 1792 , Carey by now the pastor of the Harvey Lane Church in Leicester , was persuaded to publish his pamphlet entitled ’ An Enquiry into the Obligation of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Lost ’ . |
7 | In the early Eighties , McLean , by now the champion of unlicensed boxing , took on Brian ‘ The Mad Gypsy ’ Bradshaw in a fight that was televised and seen by millions . |
8 | By now the tendency for manufacturers to concentrate on a single site was apparent , and many of the smaller mills , such as Inchbrook , fell into disuse . |
9 | Thus , with the help of a dummy variable t' for clarity , a nonperiodic signal may be represented by Now the pulsatances of the nth and ( n + 1 ) th harmonics are and so Hence or where , dropping the primes , since they are no longer necessary for clarity , The function G ( ο); giving the amplitude distribution in the equivalent continuous spectrum of the nonperiodic function F(t) is said to be the Fourier transform of F(t). |
10 | By now the Arab with my coat would be in Malaga waiting for the boat across to Africa . |
11 | By now the pressure from the other group members was enormous , but the four in possession of the body resisted by staying close together . |
12 | By 1896 La Chapelle was receiving more than a million tonnes , but by now the bulk of it was French and only a small proportion Belgian , testimony to the industrialization that had taken place in the wake of the railways . |
13 | By now the men at the window had fixed bayonets , and fell upon the invaders , driving them back temporarily until sheer weight of numbers decided the issue . |
14 | And anyway , by now the son of the house had come in for his midday meal , turned on the television , created havoc out of the quiet day . |