Example sentences of "by [adj] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By eight o'clock the French had still not attacked . |
| 2 | We were in Muscat by 10 am the next day , glad to have caught up with the group which was preparing to leave . |
| 3 | It adds that a tender and documents given by LCH to a buying member are deemed to comply with the contract terms unless the buyer notifies LCH to the contrary by 10 am the next day , in default of which he must pay for them . |
| 4 | I was back on the A12 heading south for the Smoke by 7 a.m. the next morning , well before the Front Line had stirred — all but Melanie , that is , who had been grumpily evicted from the Transit at 6.30 . |
| 5 | By three o'clock the next morning after 19 straight hours of his gruesome work , Dr Sasaki was incapable of dressing another wound . |
| 6 | In this instance Wasps skipper Mark Rigby , along with most of the journalists present , felt that by 12.15 p.m. the frost-hit pitch had thawed sufficiently to be playable . |
| 7 | The most important point , however , that emerged from Hartner 's investigation was that by 503 BC the Babylonian astronomer-priests had discovered that the tropical year ( the year of the seasons ) is not of exactly the same length as the sidereal year ( the ‘ true ’ astronomical year ) . |
| 8 | By 11 am the next morning we knew our climb was over . |
| 9 | The new company should show a profit by 1997 when the digital and analogue systems are to be combined . |
| 10 | The goods comprised 50 cartons of fragile machine parts to be collected from Tilbury , warehoused overnight at GFT 's premises and delivered by 8 am the next day to catch the relevant sailing from the port of Kings Lynn . |
| 11 | Torrington 's mishandling enabled the enemy to drive a wedge between the English and Dutch ships and by 1 pm the former were in shameful retreat , a disaster only being averted when the wind suddenly dropped , though Torrington did not drop anchor until safely within the Thames . |
| 12 | By 5.30 pm the last barrowloads of whindust were laid and rolled and the job was done , apart from one set of bollards ( to stop vehicles ) which had still to be erected , and some tidying up of site . |
| 13 | The afternoon when they discover that they have to have a complete outline plan of the Dolomites ready for the Ministry by nine o'clock the following morning , and all stay working into the small hours , until their backs are aching and their eyes closing , and they all love each other and are united in extremity against the entire world . |
| 14 | These centred on personal power and wealth and were manifest in Nigeria , for example , by 1966 when the first military coup was staged . |
| 15 | New transmitters in Sutton Coldfield ( 1949 ) , Holme Moss , near Huddersfield ( 1951 ) , Kirk O'Shotts ( 1952 ) and Wenvoe soon extended the service to a potential 36 million , and by 1956 almost the whole population was included . |
| 16 | By four o'clock the last of the mist had disappeared , even down in the valley below the cemetery . |