Example sentences of "by [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | By that time , of course , the element of surprise is lost and his guard is ready and waiting . |
| 2 | By that time I was hopelessly lost and hopelessly bored . |
| 3 | Speelman had to give up his queen to avoid being mated , but by that time he had so many pieces for it that he was still able to draw comfortably . |
| 4 | By that time the Everyman 's new artistic director , John Doyle , and his permanent company will have worked their way through an ambitious and unusually schematic programme culminating in two works of twentieth-century apocalypse : a Solzhenitsyn piece from the Gulag , and the Chernobyl play Sarcophagus . |
| 5 | By that time the cinema had closed down , sold to a firm making fibreglass covers for pneumatic drills . |
| 6 | It was strongly supported in the 1950s by the companies who purchased the cotton grown as a cash crop in the savannah , because it appeared to be the most effective way to reverse the declining fertility and falling yields which had become apparent by that time . |
| 7 | It was six months before their debut album was in the shops and by that time public interest in them had waned . |
| 8 | By that time the ministry had already spent £9.54 million on the project . |
| 9 | By that time , however , the President had already ordered the anti-terrorist Delta Force based at Fort Bragg on full alert , amid clear hints of full-scale US military intervention . |
| 10 | By that time the officer cadets were in hospital . |
| 11 | By that time the trading had been done . ’ |
| 12 | By that time the room had acquired an axis and was gently girating around it . |
| 13 | By that time DeFries had an office in Park Avenue which was very much like the old Gem offices in London . |
| 14 | By that time , David and I had some serious talks and I went on the road for the second part of the tour to try to salvage the relationship , which did n't really work . |
| 15 | I really thought I could n't bear not to at least understand what he was going through , but by that time my opinion was totally irrelevant — not wanted — added to which , I 'm not easy to get along with anyway because I 'm not a ‘ yes-man ’ . |
| 16 | By that time the state of the economy had eclipsed the environment as the main issue . |
| 17 | By that time there were three supersonic contenders for the medium term : the English Electric Company 's P-1 , which later became the Lightning , the Saunders Roe P-177 , which combined jet with rocket propulsion ; and the Fairey delta-winged PD-2 , in which Peter Twiss wrested the air speed record from the Americans in 1956 with a speed of 1,132 m.p.h . |
| 18 | By that time , scholars in various countries were throwing new light on the composer 's music , life and times , providing performers with new insights — and also making way for the populist boom that began with Peter Shaffer 's play and film ‘ Amadeus ’ . |
| 19 | It would not bring the recovery forward ; instead it would add demand to an economy which , by that time , already had plenty . |
| 20 | By that time her clothes were dry , and we brought them in and I ironed them and hung them in the sun again , this time to air . |
| 21 | ‘ I was so tired by that time that all I could do was sit in a deck-chair on the sea-front and sleep all day , but it was enough . ’ |
| 22 | She was well over ninety by that time . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Later , Anthony Eden , by that time in the Cabinet as Minister of the League of Nations Affairs though still a Junior Minister for Foreign Affairs , went to Rome with the intent of offering Abyssinia territory in Somaliland in return for conceding some of its own territory to Italy . |
| 25 | By that time , however , the constituency parties were complaining of trade-union domination at conference , and formed the Provisional Committee of Constituency Labour parties to challenge this feature of Labour conferences . |
| 26 | I think that 's how you learn people 's true reactions to you , but by that time I was starting to feel better about myself , and I could laugh at them . |
| 27 | North wrote it in his notebook , by that time wearily misspelling it : ‘ Ultimately on the side of the angles ’ . |
| 28 | By that time the girl was pregnant . |
| 29 | By that time Mascagni was an old and disappointed man . |
| 30 | But by that time there had been two centuries of strife between Empire and Papacy and the Empire no longer had any special connection to the City of Rome . |