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By the time the senior regulatory compliance officer ___ the emergency board meeting next Tuesday morning, the external audit committee ___ the financial records for three consecutive days, unearthing unprecedented systemic discrepancies.
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In complex English syntax involving future time clauses, the primary clause expressing a future action completed or in progress relative to another future point utilizes specific tense combinations. The subordinate clause introduced by time markers like 'by the time', 'before', or 'when' takes the present simple tense (or present perfect) to denote a future reference (e.g., *'joins'*), while the main clause requires the future perfect continuous tense (*'will have been reviewing'*) because the action is ongoing and measured over a duration ('for three consecutive days') up to that specific future moment. To explore more about the structural mechanics of time clauses and aspectual verb forms, refer to the Wikipedia Reference on grammatical tense.
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