Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] by time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jacopo della Quercia has never enjoyed the popularity of his fellow sculptors Ghiberti and Donatello , and his works have not been favoured by time . |
| 2 | Human experts often have to travel to deploy their knowledge and are restricted by time and other business pressures . |
| 3 | If the parties do not wish to be bound by time limits there should be none in the lease . |
| 4 | The players at Bridgetown , and the umpires , took that to mean that 90 overs in a day would be reduced by time in proportion to wickets take ; i.e. eight wickets=16 minutes=four overs=a minimum of 86 overs for the day . |
| 5 | And Ginsberg wrote , ‘ Are you going to let your emotional life be run by Time magazine ? ’ |
| 6 | But the stresses and strains of the moment , the all-important moral factors , tend to be submerged by time . |
| 7 | At this minimal level , narrative is organisationally simple and , linguistically , cohesion will tend to be established by time clauses ( when … ) , time connectors ( next … ) and pronominalisations ( John … he , or door-key … it , in the last example ) . |
| 8 | In India , army officers in the Company 's service were advanced by time promotion , mitigated in some degree by considerations of evident merit , and commissions were not openly bought and sold as they were in the British army . |
| 9 | Compared with Maud she was too tall and thin , and her mouth was too wide , but she had a simple grace which remained in his memory long after her features were blurred by time . |
| 10 | That I could put no name to it made it all the more tantalizing , like a song when only the tune remains and the words are lost by time . |
| 11 | A degree is no shortcut to the acquisition of the essential practical skills ; experience is won by time and application : |
| 12 | Of course , any ethnographic study is bound by time and place . |
| 13 | Answer guide : Straight line — asset usage and wearing out is governed by time and is equal over the assets life . |
| 14 | So persuasive have Baudrillard 's perceptions become that the 1988 US Presidential election was described by TIME magazine in his terms . |