Example sentences of "by this [noun sg] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disheartened by this blow the old King was persuaded to recognize Henry Plantagenet as his heir . |
| 2 | When those credits are deducted from the total figure for the awards covered by this judgement the overall total figure would amount to one million six hundred and three thousand , eight hundred and seventy four pounds and eighteen pence . |
| 3 | This , in their view , has been clear enough : Article 1 of the Rome Treaty states , ‘ By this Treaty the high contracting parties establish among themselves a EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY ’ . |
| 4 | Tested by this principle the following covenants have been held to touch and concern the land . " |
| 5 | As an extension of this military competence , the constable was by this date the established authority in cases of treason which had involved raising war against the king . |
| 6 | As an extension of this military competence , the constable was by this date the established authority in cases of treason which had involved raising war against the king . |
| 7 | As we have seen , by this time the traditional and often puritan belief in the virtues of abstemiousness and moderation was finding it hard to resist the reality of achievement , but they were still regretted . |
| 8 | By this time the only real difference was that broadcasters lost their separate status along with certain privileges in pensions and related matters , and became civil servants . |
| 9 | By this time the first Pan American Mystère 20 had been delivered to the PAC facility at Burbank for outfitting . |
| 10 | By this time the other power with ambitions of hegemony in Sicily , Syracuse herself , had probably begun to coerce her neighbours in an organized way . |
| 11 | By this time the new cargo of contraband televisions for India was tumbling about our ears . |
| 12 | By this time the ex-naval HDML 's Vincent and Valiant were showing their age , and their replacement was under consideration by the Board . |
| 13 | By this time the weakest of your fish will probably be dying . |
| 14 | ‘ Dear Fudge , ’ he wrote to Hunt , ‘ by this time the frightful fact will have dawned upon you that Plastercast and I are really coming out to see you . |
| 15 | Eventually I moved on from the blues , picking up on Ronnie Lane again , only by this time The Small Faces had become The Faces . |
| 16 | The plan was to sell £2 billion of assets per annum , but , as a result of the success of the British Telecom privatisation of December 1984 , the figure to be raised was more than doubled ( to £4.75 billion per annum ) — by this time the revenue-raising implications of privatisation had become more apparent . |
| 17 | By this time the total death total from five weeks of violence was estimated at 757 . |
| 18 | In the case of Molla Sayyid Muhammad al-Nakib ( Yavuz Celebi ) , on the other hand , Ata'i merely notes that he started off his career as a kasabat kadi , then turned to the medrese system in which he was given a 40-akce medrese and subsequently worked his way up to the Suleymaniye Darulhadis — probably by this time the premier medrese in the empire to which he was appointed in 1012/1604 : he later became kadi of Eyup and then nakibulesraf . |
| 19 | By this time the Ottoman empire had long since ceased to be a threat to Christian Europe . |
| 20 | By this time the tiny west wing of the villa had been removed to make way for a gigantic conservatory , which has since disappeared . |
| 21 | By this time the last of the garrison had fought their way back into the buildings and were trying to defend doors and windows against a swarm of sepoys . |
| 22 | By this time the organisational history had become vague and shrouded in mystery . |
| 23 | By this time the youngest member of the family , an eight-year-old boy , had got out of bed and was clinging to the bannisters at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 24 | By this time the Jewish community in Greece had dwindled to something like 6,000 ( from the 11,000 which remained after the Nazi occupation ; 75,000 having been liquidated ) . |
| 25 | By this time the unfortunate P.O. |
| 26 | By this time the pro-imperial Pope Anastasius had died , and had been succeeded by the anti-imperial Hadrian . |
| 27 | By this time the whole tube carriage was riveted to the three men . |
| 28 | I think that 's all I need say by this time the next our next speaker is usually arriving so to sort of develop and not that there 's a real need for it nor am I capable of doing so . |
| 29 | I lie there light-headed on the pillow at half-past four in the morning , knowing that anyway it 's nearly over , that by this time tomorrow we 'll have done it , that by this time the next day I 'll be out of the country . |
| 30 | By this time the original confrontation between marchers and police had given way to a general battle between the police and young residents of the Bogside , most of whom had taken no part in the march . |