Example sentences of "by [adj] they were " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1568 they were incorporated as one of the first two English joint-stock companies , the Society of the Mines Royal , with some important royal servants and London merchants as members . |
| 2 | They were much prized for cutting as well as for bedding , and by 1917 they were listing the immaculate white ‘ Purity ’ , to be sown for flowering in pots at Easter . |
| 3 | The family may well have moved around from street to street , but by 1785 they were settled in Fountain Lane , that most familiar of Titford haunts . |
| 4 | Cooks also published a far-sighted brochure in 1919 Aerial Travel for Business or Pleasure and by 1921 they were acting as agents for eighteen air companies . |
| 5 | Vacuum cleaners , pop-up toasters , food mixers — by 1960 they were common to 70 per cent of American families . |
| 6 | The first signs of a solution to the financial problem began to appear ; the settlers started growing tobacco and by 1611 they were exporting it to England . |
| 7 | By 1952 they were contributing $400000000 a year and John Foster Dulles gave enthusiastic support as part of his anti-Communist crusade . |
| 8 | By ten they were fast asleep in each other 's arms , and so they missed , not only Jeffrey Archer 's party , but pictures on the telly of an angry Lady Thatcher , an indignant Jeffrey Archer , a statuesque Amaranth in chiffon , all against a background of racing cars , billowing smoke and licking flames . |
| 9 | Traditionally the largest man-made hole in England , it is the result of the running together of a number of small quarries Cornish slates were widely employed for roofing in the county by the fourteenth century and indeed by 1314 they were certainly in use on buildings in Winchester , Hampshire . |
| 10 | One by one they were closed , and again many people were out of work — unemployed . |
| 11 | One by one they were brought to Rome and , as opportunity arose , they were required to take an oath of obedience to the Holy See " super negotio imperii " , " on the matter of the empire " . |
| 12 | One by one they were all becoming shades . |
| 13 | Since 1984 the relative incomes of workers in the non-productive sector have been allowed to recover ; and by 1987 they were back to the position which they occupied in 1979 . |
| 14 | With Fisher 's appointment as President of the Board ( having a seat in the Cabinet ) came an undertaking that money would be made available for such post-war reconstruction ; and the policy itself was enshrined in legislation to enable the kind of educational expansion within the continuing and adult sectors which had been at the forefront of the Newbolt Committee 's deliberations.5 In practice , however , such expansion was never enacted , despite the ever-increasing reliance of the universities upon state funds ( by 1931 they were receiving slightly over half their income from this source ) , |
| 15 | By 1959 they were a joke and the title of a film which simply stated a philosophy that was taken for granted . |
| 16 | By 1597 they were in default on rents and Royalties . |
| 17 | Despite deindustrialization total exports of manufactured goods increased substantially : by 1983 they were more than three times their level in the late 1940s and almost twice their average during the 1960s . |
| 18 | By 1974 they were used in 56 per cent of guilty cases for adult males but subsequently their proportionate use declined and by 1988 the figure was 42 per cent . |
| 19 | By 0930 they were all in their coaches for the long journey back to Brighton , for that evening they all became civilians again and had to be ready for their ordinary jobs on Monday . |