Example sentences of "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 | The occasional comment one hears that Parker plays the way he is here simply because he was by that time a seasoned performer and recording artist is not really to the point ; Parker was a naturally developmental musician . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
| 5 | Although by that time an elected parliament had become an influential factor in politics , the arbiter of social status remained the court , with its officialdom of ministers , chamberlains , masters of ceremonies — all nobles and mostly descendants of the oldest families . |
| 6 | By that time the Everyman 's new artistic director , John Doyle , and his permanent company will have worked their way through an ambitious and unusually schematic programme culminating in two works of twentieth-century apocalypse : a Solzhenitsyn piece from the Gulag , and the Chernobyl play Sarcophagus . |
| 7 | By that time the cinema had closed down , sold to a firm making fibreglass covers for pneumatic drills . |
| 8 | By that time the ministry had already spent £9.54 million on the project . |
| 9 | By that time the officer cadets were in hospital . |
| 10 | By that time the trading had been done . ’ |
| 11 | By that time the room had acquired an axis and was gently girating around it . |
| 12 | By that time the state of the economy had eclipsed the environment as the main issue . |
| 13 | By that time the girl was pregnant . |
| 14 | By that time the embanked railway line — now the District Line — had bisected the ‘ Back Common ’ of Turnham Green , and the area left north of the railway gradually became referred to as Acton Green . |
| 15 | By that time the Fascist party in Italy had increased in strength to 300,000 members . |
| 16 | By that time the public library had changed its character completely . |
| 17 | By that time the church at Temple was in decay . |
| 18 | By that time the level of legal culture had dropped , although the content of the law had not changed much . |
| 19 | By that time the householder would need to buy a new collector . |
| 20 | But , of course , by that time the bird — which was probably just as frightened as the child — had flown off . |
| 21 | I would imagine that by that time the still adolescent Mandy was so sexually confused she did n't know what she was doing . |
| 22 | By that time the information contained in the audited accounts would be so out of date that it would not reasonably be foreseen as the basis for a business judgment concerning the extension of credit to Berg or the discounting of bills . |
| 23 | Probably even by that time the whole policy was out of date ; but it did not seem so to the monks of Canterbury , nor to Anselm himself . |
| 24 | By that time the prop had stopped turning/ . |
| 25 | It took the Belgians six hours to rush to the defence of the Red Cross compound and by that time the fighting was over . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And by that time the tale was told . |
| 28 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 29 | By that time the native peoples constituted a minority of only 30 per cent of the total population of Siberia , and they remained at that level until the end of the eighteenth century , although their own numbers increased from 288,000 in 1719 to 732,000 in 1795 . |
| 30 | By that time the money may have been dissipated . |