Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [verb] by [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | All talk of a referendum had been dropped by the time the Supreme Soviet came to vote on the programme . |