Example sentences of "by [Wh det] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undoubtedly , the proceeds of offshore oil taxes , by which method the Exchequer benefits from North Sea oil , covered the cost of unemployment benefits ; but our tax bill to the companies who extract the oil is no less than 90% of the sale price . |
| 2 | But the bass is figured and Schein obligingly points out alternative methods of performance : two tenors or soprano and tenor instead of the sopranos ; bass to be played by trombone , bassoon , or violone ; soprano II to be replaced by violin or flute ; or simply soprano solo with continuo — by which expedient the German solo song with continuo was born almost by accident . |
| 3 | In fact , months of wrangling between the band 's manager and the record company usually ends with the band being dropped , by which time the other record companies who initially showed interest have gone cold . |
| 4 | The police arrived three hours later , by which time the seige of the Bengali homes had ended … |
| 5 | Should he wait for a year , by which time the quarrel between Hindus and Muslims over the disputed Ayodhya mosque will have cooled down ? |
| 6 | HE WAS NOT ALLOWED to go to school again until Thursday morning , by which time the missing button had been replaced on the collar of his shirt and he was wearing a pair of smart new shoes of polished black leather and knee-length grey socks with a dark red band around their tops . |
| 7 | This was in the mid 1560s , when Mary was still in power , so that it reads like Knox 's wishful thinking rather than anything else ; and it was then recast into the famous phrase by the Protestant chronicler Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie , writing in the 1570s , by which time the representative of the house of Stewart was the child James VI , and the lass had long gone — into English captivity . |
| 8 | Civil war — even if very low-key civil war — had begun , and would last until July 1560 , by which time the regent herself would be dead . |
| 9 | Millar and Big Ben , winners of the World Cup in 1988 and 1989 , have almost the best draw of all , last but one , by which time the Canadian will know exactly what he needs to do . |
| 10 | January 1945 , by which time the Russians had established , and officially recognised the Union of Polish Patriots , ( later called the Lubin Committee ) and it proclaimed itself as the provisional government of Poland , a procedure which did not please the British , Americans , or the London Poles . |
| 11 | The two men met at Biarritz in September 1865 , by which time the general situation in Europe had altered to the disadvantage of France . |
| 12 | These were completed in the inter-war years , by which time the Lobito Bay railway in Angola and the Central African railway from Mozambique to Nyasaland were in operation . |
| 13 | Eventually some instructional material did arrive , but not until October , by which time the whole detachment had qualified . |
| 14 | So much so that , although it had not been mentioned at all in the advance publicity , it was given no fewer than 87 times that season and remained in the programmes for the next six seasons , by which time the company had danced it more often than any other work in their repertory except Les Sylphides and two of Ashton 's ballets , Façade and Les Rendezvous . |
| 15 | It was said that he travelled to Europe and established the Merovingian dynasty of kings which ruled France until displaced in 679 AD , by which time the dynasty had become enfeebled . |
| 16 | At the age of eight his father died , by which time the family had moved to ‘ The Bowery ’ , an area in the Shettleston district of Glasgow 's East End . |
| 17 | Holding his body rigid , Yanto used the weight of his body to fall forward He fell forward very slowly until his hands came in contact with the sand by which time the suction on his feet had been broken . |
| 18 | The next hour passed amiably , by which time the two of them began to feel the effects of the day . |
| 19 | The authors published their reports at the 2nd Benoxaprofen Symposium in June , by which time the firm had the full texts of the assays . |
| 20 | Sir Frank will rule on the call for an adjournment next month , by which time the NII promises that it should have a new batch of reports out . |
| 21 | In order to cater for this anomaly the microcontroller will continue to recognise characters for a further 4mS by which time the host computer should have ceased sending characters . |
| 22 | It was opened in 1951 , by which time the men had moved 400 tons of rubble , 154 tons of gravel and laid 44,000 bricks . |
| 23 | Mr Reed had to wait almost a year before serious preparation for the trial began , and the trial proper did not get underway until 11 February 1991 , by which time the judge had sat through four months of preparatory hearings . |
| 24 | The amendments allow the whole sum to be kept in the office account for up to 14 days , by which time the unpaid professional disbursements must have been paid or an amount transferred to the client account . |
| 25 | Most surviving examples date from the eighteenth century , by which time the decoration became increasingly elaborate and stylised . |
| 26 | Some of the new cases , no doubt , would be taken to Strasbourg , but , as with the earlier ones , the United Kingdom could delay proceedings for at least six years by which time the Ulster crisis might be half-remembered history . |
| 27 | I will assess this more in the conclusions , by which time the evolving events will have enabled us to understand the pressures on the participants better . |
| 28 | But the beleaguered taxpayer has just over 12 months to prepare for the changes — by which time the Chancellor hopes an improved economy will soften the blow . |
| 29 | But gradually the pattern changes until we see the growth of commercialism by which time the symbols in ornament had less meaning as such social networks were supplanted by more cohesive political groups ; production could at that time be taken over by entrepreneurs who continued the evolution of regional designs but who were distributing the goods in an entirely different manner . |
| 30 | The amputee 's tongue flickered silently , stumpily , as though tasting the molecules of Lexandro 's sweat which escaped into the air , before he resumed his discourse : ‘ The longest that anyone has endured a nerveglove at level tertius until irreversible insanity , is fifty-two minutes — by which time the pain signals were so burned into the nerves that they could never cease thereafter . ’ |