Example sentences of "been [verb] by [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Protocols of accession to GATT were signed by Bolivia on Aug. 4 , 1989 , and by Costa Rica on Nov. 27 , 1989 ; accession ( as the 97th and 98th contracting parties ) was in each case to take place 30 days after ratification by the respective country 's legislature , which had not , however , been completed by the time of the 45th session of the GATT contracting parties held in Geneva , Switzerland , on Dec. 4-5 , 1989 . |
| 2 | All talk of a referendum had been dropped by the time the Supreme Soviet came to vote on the programme . |
| 3 | However , taken overall the exercise had focussed attention on the problems associated with the filing systems of the two departments , and many of them had been alleviated by the time the study was completed , albeit using manual methods rather than technical solutions . |
| 4 | The bell to announce the visiting hour had already been rung by the time they reached the hospital , and , after walking along corridors in the company of numerous people who carried flowers and parcels , they found themselves in a ward filled with beds and patients . |
| 5 | The italics are ours , and mark the parts which had been deleted by the time the twelfth edition was reached in 1954 ; the word trained was replaced by rightly guided . |
| 6 | If the following questions have not been answered by the time you start your new job , make sure you have the answers as quickly as possible . |
| 7 | Under the US 1986 Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act , five conditions had to be met for the lifting of sanctions , of which only two had been met by the time of de Klerk 's visit ( entering into negotiations with black representatives and lifting the ban on democratic parties ) . |
| 8 | Despite frantic last-minute appeals , only £1,634,000 had been raised by the time the offer stopped — still well short of the new lower target of £2 million . |
| 9 | If Kujau is telling the truth and has found the location , the treasure should have been recovered by the time you read this . |
| 10 | So the Imperial Fists scrutinised transcripts of trials and criminal records involving youngsters , hunting for a special blend of ingenuity , daring , will power — quite often suitable candidates had already been executed by the time the Fists learned of their existence , now cut short by poison gas or explosive bullet . |
| 11 | The organisers stress that the choice of exhibits has been governed by the time and place of execution of the works that brought the artists into the limelight before World War I. Between 1905 and 1914 , in Dresden , Munich and Berlin the ‘ key figures of the modern movement ’ of the title Heckel , Kirchner , Schmidt-Rottluff , Pechstein , Mueller , Nolde , Jawlensky , Kandinsky , Marc , Macke , Klee , Münter , Werefkin and Meidner were the driving force behind Expressionism . |
| 12 | Goya 's life , on the other hand , coincides with the decline and ultimate collapse of the Empire ; Spanish rule in America had been overthrown by the time of his death in 1828 . |
| 13 | Whilst some progress had been made complete free movement of capital can not be said to have been achieved by the time of the SEA . |
| 14 | Playful biting is usual in young puppies , but this trait should have been lost by the time they are about four-and-a-half months old . |
| 15 | He has been described by The Times as ‘ the key figure among Labour 's communications advisers ’ . |
| 16 | The special edition of the journal had long since been published by the time I got the material out of Iraq . ) |
| 17 | In the area of taxation it had been established by the time of Edward I that direct taxes could only be levied with the consent of Parliament . |