Example sentences of "be [verb] by [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the time dependences of the current I and potential difference V are given by the time dependence of the intersection of the load line with the characteristic , provided the frequency of the source is not so high that reactive effects render the static characteristic inappropriate . |
| 2 | Protocols of accession to GATT were signed by Bolivia on Aug. 4 , 1989 , and by Costa Rica on Nov. 27 , 1989 ; accession ( as the 97th and 98th contracting parties ) was in each case to take place 30 days after ratification by the respective country 's legislature , which had not , however , been completed by the time of the 45th session of the GATT contracting parties held in Geneva , Switzerland , on Dec. 4-5 , 1989 . |
| 3 | All talk of a referendum had been dropped by the time the Supreme Soviet came to vote on the programme . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The bell to announce the visiting hour had already been rung by the time they reached the hospital , and , after walking along corridors in the company of numerous people who carried flowers and parcels , they found themselves in a ward filled with beds and patients . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If the following questions have not been answered by the time you start your new job , make sure you have the answers as quickly as possible . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | We hope it 's sunk in and they 'll know what they 're doing by the time they get to Bosnia . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If Kujau is telling the truth and has found the location , the treasure should have been recovered by the time you read this . |
| 12 | So the Imperial Fists scrutinised transcripts of trials and criminal records involving youngsters , hunting for a special blend of ingenuity , daring , will power — quite often suitable candidates had already been executed by the time the Fists learned of their existence , now cut short by poison gas or explosive bullet . |
| 13 | Leys , for example , argues that the fact that the colonial state apparatus had to subdue opposition from pre-colonial ruling classes does not mean that it would inevitably be overdeveloped by the time of dependence , because ‘ by that time the capitalist mode of production had been introduced , and made effectively dominant , in the colonial social formation ’ . |
| 14 | As an example Russell and Macmillan ( 1952 ) quote the fact that with a westerly gale of twelve hours ' duration in the Atlantic the size of the waves reaching Cornwall would be limited by the time and not by the fetch , i.e. the distance between Cornwall and America . |
| 15 | The news might well be outdated by the time it reached the curia , messengers and even legates might be seized , as Cardinal Leo was by King Imre of Hungary , and the curial instructions might well be outdated when they reached their target . |
| 16 | There are some limitations with this approach , which may be resolved by the time the final product hits the streets . |
| 17 | While it is true that the longer the period of time over which the child 's language is sampled , the more representative that sample will be of the child 's underlying linguistic knowledge , in practical terms the length of any recording will be constrained by the time available for transcription and coding . |
| 18 | It 'll all be forgotten by the time we do go back to town . |
| 19 | And after just a few sessions of treatment his parents were overjoyed to be told their son could be walking by the time they leave the Capital in April . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm pretty fit and I do like cycling but I expect I 'll be shattered by the time I get to the end . |
| 21 | That will be revealed by the time the report is published by the NRA . |
| 22 | By contrast with diamonds , which were too hard to be ground smooth and could only be mounted as natural crystals until medieval lapidaries had learned how to cut them , coloured transparent stones continued to be shaped by the time honoured methods originally devised for opaque stones . |
| 23 | Although ideally basic competence in moving about independently should be developing by the time the pupil first comes to school , there is likely to be among visually handicapped children a range of levels of skill in independent mobility and in competence in using the environment fully and safely . |
| 24 | Mr David Anderson , support services manager , said agreed staffing levels would be met by the time the unit opened in August or September . |
| 25 | Penelope thought it wiser not to point out that the Stores would certainly be closed by the time she got there , but felt she had done enough in showing her which bus to take . |
| 26 | ‘ The gates of the city will be closed by the time we arrive , and wo n't be opened until morning . |
| 27 | ‘ I wo n't even be washed by the time you come down . ’ |
| 28 | The old slums in Wallace Street have gone now , replaced nearby by a small , neat council estate of flats and maisonettes ; across the main road there 's a sixties estate of dour concrete so riddled with damp and concrete corrosion that it may be demolished by the time this book is published . |
| 29 | ‘ The point is , ’ said Dyson , thumping the car down into second to slow up at the traffic lights , ‘ a journalist ought to be specializing by the time he 's forty . |
| 30 | Large expanses of privet need a longer blade , and the extra cost will be offset by the time saved . |