Example sentences of "but by [adj] time [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by that time a grand station had already been built in the centre of Alexandria . |
| 2 | But by that time a renewed coalition and a coalition election would not be arranged to get a mandate for war so much as to reap the benefits of victory . |
| 3 | Whatever the latter meant , the order was instantly obeyed , but by that time the thief had whipped Estabrook 's wallet into his own pocket , and had stepped back , hands raised to show them empty . |
| 4 | Yonge also brought out a second Musica Transalpina in 1597 but by that time the English madrigal was well established and flourishing . |
| 5 | And all they wanted it to do was to go around the corner to Marygate for the winter and then we s got the same in the spring to bring it back , but by that time the python was a lot bigger . |
| 6 | A year later the issue of ‘ appropriate liberty ’ and indeed the nature of the French Union itself was still unresolved but by this time a Preliminary Convention had been signed between the Government of the French Republic and what was described , and recognized , as the Government of Vietnam . |
| 7 | But by this time the Crown was assessing the royal forests , not so much as hunting preserves but as sources of timber , especially for ship-building . |
| 8 | It had its roots in the areas of Altarnun and Menheniot , ( where young Jonathon was christened ) , but by this time the family was well established at the house still known as Trelawne , at Pelynt , near the Looe to Polperro road . |
| 9 | But by this time the Captain had grown used to living in a blue haze . |
| 10 | In 1936 Robert Wagner had maintained that Charlie 's pictures are always ‘ proletarian ’ but by this time the politicization of criticism had already assured a wider and more varied critical response to Chaplin . |
| 11 | But by this time the profit level will be falling and the impetus will be dying away . |