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 .
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