Example sentences of "by [adj] [pron] have [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1935 he had returned to England and in the following year married an actress , eight years older than himself , Elsie Elizabeth Mary Gott , a marriage celebrated , since he had been baptized into the Roman Catholic Church , in St James 's , Spanish Place . |
| 2 | In 1961 only 1.5% of the workforce was registered as unemployed , but by 1971 it had risen to 3.5% — a total of 792,000 people . |
| 3 | By 1986 he had reverted to freelancing on several national newspapers and magazines before joining the newly launched Independent as rock critic . |
| 4 | By 1630 he had come to the notice of William Cavendish , Earl ( later Duke ) of Newcastle [ q.v. ] , who presented him to the living of Tormarton , Gloucestershire , and made him his chaplain at Welbeck , Nottinghamshire , where , in collaboration with Newcastle 's brother , the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish [ q.v. ] , he maintained a correspondence , especially on optics , with mathematicians such as Walter Warner and John Pell [ qq.v. ] , and with Thomas Hobbes [ q.v. ] , whose references to Payne indicate respect for his character and abilities . |
| 5 | The sensitivity of the graphite industry to international demand may be illustrated by the sharp fluctuations in the value of graphite exports as a proportion of the value of rice imports : in 1890 this proportion was eighteen per cent , by 1895 it had fallen to seven per cent , but in the boom year of 1899 it soared to sixty per cent . |
| 6 | By 1960 there were still only 1,300 beds but by 1985 they had risen to 12,000 . |
| 7 | By 1975–76 it had risen to £10.3 billion — two and a half times the level inherited from the Conservatives just two years earlier . |
| 8 | Customs revenue stood at c. £40,000 per annum in 1509 ; in the last years of Henry VIII 's reign it was still at that figure ; by 1550/51 it had fallen to £26,000 . |
| 9 | By 1252 he had come to England , married Maud de Lacy , and as co-heir to the Lacy inheritance received some of their Irish lands . |
| 10 | By 1909 it had spread to domestic African pigs . |
| 11 | The one notable feature in his face were the eyes ; they were brilliant blue , recognised as the colour of gentians by those who had travelled to the Swiss mountains in summer . |
| 12 | For it turned out that Pound 's poetry — The Cantos certainly but much of the earlier work also — could be understood and enjoyed only by those who had attended to Pound s criticism enough to grasp what it was that Pound was trying to do , or conceived himself to be doing , in his poetry . |
| 13 | In 1957 the ratio was 10.79 to 1 , but by 1977 it had fallen to 4.97 to 1 . |
| 14 | In 1950 the gross personal incomes of those living in the five Pacific states amounted to just over a quarter of those living in the 18 Atlantic states ; by 1982 it had risen to very nearly half . |
| 15 | Although an Exeter weaver could still make 9s ( 45p ) a week in 1750 , a level still persisting in nearby Taunton in 1764 , by 1787 he had fallen to 8s ( 40p ) and to 7s ( 35p ) by 1791 . |
| 16 | By 1696 he had moved to Pall Mall , near to the court . |
| 17 | German steel production had peaked in 1974 at over 53 million tons , in 1979 it was 46 million but by 1983 it had fallen to 36 million . |
| 18 | By 1988 they had recovered to 0.75 per cent . |
| 19 | By 1905 he had moved to St Petersburg where his growing reputation as a miraculous healer brought him to the attention of the Czar and Czarina . |