Example sentences of "be by that time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effects of this trend weakened in the 1970s but the numbers of economically active women were by that time swollen by the fall in the numbers of children and by the fall in the numbers of women entering motherhood in their twenties . |
| 2 | I went oftener to Uncle Geordie 's by that time and sometimes I missed Uncle Bill if he came to see Dad and Ma on a Saturday night . |
| 3 | Her purpose was to establish a pilot project which might encourage the government to use its antenatal clinics and infant and maternal welfare clinics , of which there were more than 2,000 , to distribute information on birth control and contraceptives ; the Ministry of Health was by that time offering financial aid to the 400 local authorities who ran such clinics and could have forced them to become centres for birth control . |
| 4 | In the event , the coal crisis did n't materialize , but nuclear power was by that time up and running . |
| 5 | The occasional comment one hears that Parker plays the way he is here simply because he was by that time a seasoned performer and recording artist is not really to the point ; Parker was a naturally developmental musician . |
| 6 | She was by that time too valuable a property to be junked , so they settled for a short suspension and a revised entry in the book . |
| 7 | An important project , entitled Linguistics and the Teaching of English , based at University College , London , and directed by Michael Halliday , was by that time nearing completion . |