Example sentences of "by [num] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made his recordings in 1904 and died a year later ; by 1925 they had been moved to the ‘ Historic Catalogue ’ . |
| 2 | Lawenham was never the same without him ; by 1568 it paid only half as much tax as Long Melford , compared with two-and-a-half times as much in 1524 , and its place had been usurped by Hadleigh , which had paid only three-fifths of Lavenham 's quota in 1524 , yet now ranked as the third town in Suffolk after Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich . |
| 3 | In 1979/80 the expenditure per student in polytechnics was 82 per cent of that in the universities : by 1987/88 per capita expenditure in the polytechnics had fallen to 58 per cent of the university figure and by 1989/90 it stood at a little over 50 per cent . |
| 4 | By 1737 he had begun to acquire over 200 acres of what was regarded as desolate heath-land sloping down to the River Mole near Cobham in Surrey , and he turned it into an ornamental park , Painshill Park . |
| 5 | By 1737 it included 33 ships of the line . |
| 6 | In 1900 they were no more often in poverty than the working class of any age , but by 1935 they had become significantly more vulnerable , and in 1950 the elderly comprised over two-thirds of all the poor . |
| 7 | In 1927 Champagne sales on the French market accounted for eight million bottles , by 1935 it had passed twenty-four million . |
| 8 | Although in 1927 Nizan had remarked that " neither in imaginary nor in real existence are there absolute beginnings or endings " , by 1935 he recognised the fact that political events in the real world occasionally ruptured the flow of history , realigned social and cultural practices , and necessitated a completely fresh start in the imaginary world of the novel . |
| 9 | By 1935 he had joined the Pasadena Junior College as Professor in charge of aeronautics . |
| 10 | By 1935 he had returned to England and in the following year married an actress , eight years older than himself , Elsie Elizabeth Mary Gott , a marriage celebrated , since he had been baptized into the Roman Catholic Church , in St James 's , Spanish Place . |
| 11 | By 1875 they had moved around the square from no. 2 to no. 24 — a rather conservative little change of home which was maybe typical of them . |
| 12 | By 1829 he had succeeded in bringing together most of the country 's cotton-spinners into the Grand General Union of Operative Cotton Spinners , and , although it had disappeared by 1831 , it was an important stage in the heightening of class-consciousness among certain groups of working people . |
| 13 | By 1980 he had a well-established track record as a campaigner . |
| 14 | For example , in 1964 , the average age of mothers having their first child was 24 years , by 1980 it had risen by 6 months and by 1989 it stood at 25.3 . |
| 15 | By 1980 it had increased slightly to about 7,000 , the victim of its reputation for boucherie calves . |
| 16 | By 1272 he had become precentor of Hereford Cathedral and a canon of St Paul 's ; in 1274 he became dean of St Paul 's . |
| 17 | By Edward I 's reign ( 1272–1307 ) the continental possessions of his house had shrunk to a fraction of their former vast extent — by 1290 they consisted solely of the duchy of Aquitaine and comté of Ponthieu — but the notion that the Plantagenets had a continental role to play remained firmly embedded in their minds and in those of their subjects on both sides of the Channel . |
| 18 | In 1961 only 1.5% of the workforce was registered as unemployed , but by 1971 it had risen to 3.5% — a total of 792,000 people . |
| 19 | For example , Riseholme , near Lincoln , did not finally disappear until the late sixteenth century-ecclesiastical records show that it still existed in the 1520s , but that by 1575 it had no facilities for burials . |
| 20 | By 1986 he had reverted to freelancing on several national newspapers and magazines before joining the newly launched Independent as rock critic . |
| 21 | By 1986 it had become evident that these fears had , to some extent , been realized . |
| 22 | However , by 1986 it had become evident that the collapse in manufacturing had been so severe that alternative approaches based on tourism and retailing should be given much greater prominence ( MDC , 1986 ) . |
| 23 | Thus in 1970 EC12 unemployment was only 1.8 per cent , by 1986 it had reached 11.7 per cent ( Fig. 6.2 ) . |
| 24 | By 1794 he seems to have had enough of undisciplined emotion and of the actions of Robespierre , Rousseau 's fervent disciple ; and therefore rushed to embrace a new philosophy of reason and nonviolence . |
| 25 | By 1614 he had eliminated Hideyoshi 's heir and overcome the final military opposition to his hegemony . |
| 26 | By the early part of the 18th century , a forge occupied the site , and by 1736 it had an annual output of around 60 tons . |
| 27 | By 1881 he had built the first fully automatic milling plant at Chester and from that time , mechanically powered roller-milling rapidly supplanted stone-milling in the mass production of flour . |
| 28 | By 1933 he had produced nine of these , bearing such titles as The Seven Stabs ( 1927 ) , The Professor 's Poison ( 1928 ) , and The Factory on the Cliff ( 1928 ) . |
| 29 | By 1933 it had recovered all the municipal seats it had lost in 1931 . |
| 30 | CD describes a ‘ piece of water in the midst ’ but although there was originally a fountain there , by 1780 it had been displaced by the plinth of the present statue of William III added in 1808 , BR 70 . |