Example sentences of "by [noun] [unc] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | By Faraday 's time , the problem was more acute ; electrically charged objects were known to repel or attract each other , as did magnetic poles . |
| 2 | By Newton 's time , the Ptolemaic theory was decidedly a degenerating one . |
| 3 | For many years there was a tradition that the noted scholar , Roger Bacon , had been educated in St Mary 's Chapel , Chalford ( this later becoming the mill ) , although by Rudder 's time , this had been effectively disproved . |
| 4 | If the text is accurate , it would seem to indicate that the three kadiliks of Istanbul , Bursa and Edirne were all originally registered as 300-akce kadiliks and that their registration had not been changed by Hezarfen 's time , although all three outranked Damascus and Aleppo at least until the eighteenth century . |
| 5 | The ‘ opaque ’ areas of experience , of institutions , and daily living , if they had not disappeared by Gregory 's time , had become absorbed into a Christian universe as translucent parts . |
| 6 | One hesitates long before accepting such details from a hagiographer writing some sixty years later , not least because by Goscelin 's time the canons of St Gregory 's Canterbury were claiming that they , not St Augustine 's , had Mildred 's remains . |
| 7 | This belief persisted down the centuries so that by Gerard 's time , he was still able to quote the tag : " Ego Borage gaudia semper ago " ( I Borage , bring always courage ) . |
| 8 | While these books had probably disintegrated by Leapor 's time , it is striking that poor scholars might be taught Latin . |
| 9 | The woman had no rights in the matter , for by Jesus 's time all the man had to do was to write out the words ‘ I divorce you ’ and the divorce was effected . |
| 10 | By Jespersen 's time , the 1920s , innovation was considered good : Jespersen claims that where vocabulary is concerned , ‘ men are the chief renovators of language ’ . |
| 11 | Coat colours included red , brindle and yellowish cream , and the ‘ dun ’ colour had almost disappeared by Youatt 's time . |
| 12 | The story was certainly a common tradition by Peck 's time and he says , |
| 13 | By Joshua 's time they had reached the point of no return . |
| 14 | The main offices of government were based at the Lateran by Innocent 's time . |
| 15 | They belonged to a category of fabric called fustian ( derived from the name of the Egyptian town where it originated ) , and by Shakespeare 's time the very word fustian had become synonymous with bombast and pretentiousness . |
| 16 | In fact , however , the empire had passed its prime by Nicholas 's time . |
| 17 | It is beyond question that by Civizade 's time the learned hierarchy had become greatly elaborated relative to its state in Hocazade 's time , and a scholar 's progress through it is more or less predictable . |
| 18 | One would go too far in saying that by Civizade 's time a scholar could achieve greatness solely through office ; but at the least , such a distinction as that made by Karamani Mehmed Pasa had become almost impossible to make , since greatness ' and " office " had grown so closely intertwined as to be inseparable . |
| 19 | It is perhaps possible that they might fail to mention that a purely functional muftilik had been made an for Hizir Bey ; but it seems unlikely in the extreme that they should fail to mention his having held a post which , as has been suggested in the previous chapter , was already one of great prestige and which , by Taskopruzade 's time less than a century later , was certainly one of considerable power . |