Example sentences of "by the time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | By mid-June , the projection of the opinion polls was already suggesting that the majority favouring a measure of divorce legislation was declining so rapidly that by the time of the poll , the noes would have it . |
| 2 | Out of a desire to protest against the ‘ oppression and exploitation ’ he saw around him , he began to write short stories , by the time of his death over a hundred had been published . |
| 3 | He said by the time of the next election it would no longer be possible to cancel Trident . |
| 4 | Robin Cook , Labour 's spokesman on health , said he believed that commitment may turn out to be ‘ too modest ’ by the time of the next general election . |
| 5 | By the time of the divorce in 1986 , the assets of the family were considerable . |
| 6 | By the time of the election , even those with poor or biased information sources had enough accurate information to form the same judgement as those with better information sources . |
| 7 | By the time of the election , even those with poor or biased information sources had enough accurate information to form the same judgement as those with better information sources . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , by the time of the Queen 's jubilee that summer there was some sense that a good deal of the worst might be over . |
| 9 | By the time of local elections , it was apparent the SDP of ‘ claret and chips ’ mould-breaking fame at the time of the Limehouse Declaration in 1981 was disintegrating . |
| 10 | By the time of the Wilson government in 1964 , it was clear that the old confidence in governmental planning was , for a variety of reasons , in some disarray . |
| 11 | The Tory paternalists of the 1950s seemed dated by the time of the Heath government in 1970–4 . |
| 12 | By the time of the World Council at Amsterdam the question began to come into Ramsey 's head what he ought to do next . |
| 13 | By the time of the Chicago conference , ‘ many nations felt that the primary objectives of international airlines were political and military and that economic and other objectives were only of secondary importance ’ . |
| 14 | In The German Ideology Marx had used Tacitus as his source for tribal German society , but by the time of Formen he became influenced by the nationalist and romantic nineteenth-century tradition of German historiography , a tradition which was to influence him even more later on , and which was to have a dramatic and harmful effect on Engels . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In practice , the sleep/wake cycle seems to exert an important effect upon many of our daily rhythms and the timing of many of them is determined by the time of mid-sleep or the middle of our waking hours . |
| 17 | The West Germans want the revision of the Rome Treaty and national parliamentary endorsement of an EC central bank and other institutions to be in place by the time of the next European Parliament elections — in June 1994 . |
| 18 | Last week he had hinted that it might be better to get an agreement by the time of the next European Parliament elections in June 1994 . |
| 19 | In theatrical conditions ( whether in an Avignon stone-quarry or a Zurich boathouse ) the production 's basic ingredients of earth , fire and water acquired both a real and symbolic property : a standing-pool started as the source of creation and ended , by the time of the cosmic conflict , as a mud-caked river through which warriors heedlessly splashed . |
| 20 | By the time of the Industrial Revolution , the look of England was in the hands of the speculative builders and the architects . |
| 21 | All these three administer substantially the same law , which , by the time of Edward I , is already called Common Law , because it is a law common to the whole of England ; and it is becoming a fairly definite body of rules , capable of growth and expansion in various directions , but still with well-marked boundaries which can not be transgressed . |
| 22 | By the time of the 1988 tour of England , there were signs that the fans were realizing this , for Test attendances were well down on those of the 1984 tour . |
| 23 | The decline in hospital orders and the rise of prison sentences are traceable formally to the practice of modern psychiatrists of recommending fewer hospital orders , and in reality to the more restrictive policy on admission to special hospitals being pursued by the DHSS , and also to the higher proportion of defendants who are declared to have ‘ recovered ’ by the time of the trial . |
| 24 | By the time of his third Melbourne Cup in November he had already won eight races as a five-year-old and had become a national idol , but the handicapper had shovelled ten stone ten pounds on his back for the Cup , so it was no disgrace when he could finish only eighth . |
| 25 | Norton 's Coin won four point-to-points out of ten runs over three seasons and then developed into a good chaser : by the time of his Gold Cup attempt he had won four of his fourteen races under Rules , including a valuable chase at Cheltenham the previous April . |
| 26 | In the event it took six courses of treatment to eradicate the cancer , and by the time of the 1980 Grand National he was in no condition to take part . |
| 27 | By the time of her seventieth birthday she had served on the Board of Governors of the BBC , the Corporation 's General Advisory Council , the Arts Council and the British Council and their respective literary committees , to say nothing of her work with such organizations as the Royal Society of Literature . |
| 28 | But already by the time of Pope Gregory I ( d. 604 ) the monastic movement , widely diversified as it was , was being integrated into the life of the church at large and open to the demands made on it by the church 's interests and needs . |
| 29 | By the time of Pope Gregory I the world of cultivated Roman paganism had receded into a past now only dimly seen through the distorting medium of legend and folklore . |
| 30 | By the time of Hitler 's last national triumphs before the outbreak of war , the making of the ‘ Führer myth ’ was almost complete . |