Example sentences of "[noun] but [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not take long in drinking his tea but by the time he had finished it , he saw that she was no longer at the counter , her place having been taken by another girl . |
| 2 | St. Leonard 's Hospital was devoted mainly to the care of lepers but by the time of the Reformation , leprosy had largely disappeared from England . |
| 3 | Whitlock scrambled to his feet but by the time he reached the fence the gunman had already crossed the twenty-yard clearing and disappeared into a derelict warehouse . |
| 4 | It is possible to start off with just one or two tags which control the main typographic elements but by the time page numbers , headers , footers , indexes , etc have been added the list can get unwieldy . |
| 5 | He could not find Strawberry but after a time Cowslip came up to him from the other end of the hall . |
| 6 | They will still meet their contractual obligations but at a time more beneficial to the patients and thus be more cost effective . |
| 7 | Some of the demonstrators were denied access to the Diamond by police tenders drawn up across Shipquay Street but after a time the RUC withdrew altogether and the Diamond was filed by the vast crowd . |
| 8 | It is a method that is nearly always used there days but at the time it was quite a new technique , certainly for a band like The Wedding Present . |
| 9 | This lasted for some weeks but at no time was the baby at risk either physically or psychologically nor was the mother and baby bond threatened . |
| 10 | Oh , I can see now that it was unworthy and beside the point but at the time I was so exasperated with the man and his perfidy that any ammunition would have done . |
| 11 | He had applied for a grant but at the time Liverpool City Council was snowed under by applications . |
| 12 | Moran rattled the newspaper a few times but by the time he could look around the three children were locked back into their school books . |
| 13 | Of course the message had to be wrapped in a fairly light romantic story but at the time of the opening there was concern that publicity was concentrating too much on the comedy and not enough on the ‘ timeliness ’ of the film . |
| 14 | The former international , plagued by injury this season , was on the pitch for just 18 minutes but by the time he returned to the bench Holywood were home and dry . |
| 15 | This is a welcome and long overdue development but at the time of writing the detailed regulations bringing it into force have yet to be published . |
| 16 | Technically no one was allowed to leave the city on Passover night but by the time of Jesus there were so many pilgrims in the city that the rule was relaxed to include an area surrounding the city . |
| 17 | Cumberland now sent orders to the Lords Lieutenant of Lancashire , Westmorland and Cumberland to break up the roads , tear down the bridges and block possible escape routes by felling trees but by the time he reached Preston , on 13 December 1745 , when he was joined by the cavalry sent by General Wade from Newcastle , Prince Charles 's troops had reached Lancaster , 20 miles [ 32 km ] further north , though General Oglethorpe 's detachment was a mere three miles [ 5 km ] behind and almost in contact with the enemy rearguard . |
| 18 | A Immediately after it is published is an important time for lobbying the Government but by the time the White Paper appears , the framework for the reforms will largely be set . |
| 19 | I tried a machine to express milk in the hospital but by the time the milk did start to come through she was really used to the bottle . |
| 20 | Changes can be made in the look of any step not by a change in the tempo but in the time signature : for example , dancing a pas de basque to a 2/4 or 6/8 instead of the usual 3/4 . |
| 21 | Henry 's voice-over adds an amusing counterpoint to the visuals but by the time we reach his eventual arrest , on drugs charges , in '81 , Scorsese 's frenetic cross-cutting seems to leave the original premise — presumably , the mob 's seductive potency — somewhere in the sidings . |
| 22 | Henry 's voice-over adds an amusing counterpoint to the visuals but by the time we reach his eventual arrest , on drugs charges , in '81 , Scorsese 's frenetic cross-cutting seems to leave the original premise — presumably , the mob 's seductive potency — somewhere in the sidings . |
| 23 | and erm of course computers did n't help in the slightest because er , I think the er , I may be wrong about this but as I understood it erm the computer programmer worked for West Suffolk but at the time of reorganization he 'd got himself another job . |
| 24 | The social historian can now fit this slump into the wider pattern of events that was to add up to the Great Depression but at the time motion-picture executives in production and distribution were more given to introspection than to socio-economic analysis . |
| 25 | It was recorded with the original Wedding Present line-up but by the time it was released in February 1988 , Shaun Charman had been replaced by Simon Smith . |
| 26 | Police saw him go into a flat in West London but by the time they entered he 'd gone . |
| 27 | An object close to the camera , with a very short out-and-return light-path from flash to film , will be imaged while the sound-pulse is still at the back of the emulsion but by the time light from an object 15 metres away has reached the film , the sound-pulse will have reached its front face . |