Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] had by " in BNC.
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| 1 | This change had by the November 1983 uprating resulted in the abolition of short-term child support . |
| 2 | Later , in November 1918 , all internal and foreign trade was nationalised , the latter having little practical significance at that time , since foreign trade had by then all but ceased in those parts of the country in the control of the Soviets . |
| 3 | Some opening of diplomacy to parliamentary and even public scrutiny had by the later nineteenth century a considerable history in Britain , though it was by no means one of steady or continuous growth . |
| 4 | Merton 's clothes on this show had by now reached previously unfathomed depths : shrunk , unironed Magic Roundabout T-shirts and lumberjack shirts without washing instructions ( on the one occasion Merton wore a smart suit , he stopped the show mid-way through and exclaimed : ‘ Is n't anyone going to ask me why I 'm looking so smart today ? ’ ) . |
| 5 | Granite rocks that were almost bare in early spring had by late summer acquired a thin growth of brown diatoms ( Navicula , Fragilaria , Achnanthes , Licmophora ) and filamentous green algae ( Ulothrix , Enteromorpha , Cladophora , Monostroma ) , growing upward in a narrow band upward from mean low tide level . |
| 6 | Both colonial issues and the Cold War had by then had a major impact on French domestic politics , dividing the Communists from the other two major parties . |
| 7 | GOOD TIME HAD BY ALL |
| 8 | They had passed out as a result of the good time had by all and did not come to until the evening . |
| 9 | Advanced age had by now somewhat mellowed my mother , with the result that I enjoyed my visits to the palace , for when the subject was other than myself she could be stimulating and amusing company . |
| 10 | But the nuclear industry had by this time received yet a further green light . |
| 11 | What had been perceived in 1935 as an implicit fascist disease had by 1939 reached epidemic proportions . |
| 12 | However , a new element of strategic policy had by now entered the arena . |
| 13 | Robson was , in one sense , simply echoing the words of Maitland that ‘ if you take up a modern volume of the reports of the Queen 's Bench division , you will find that about half the cases reported have to do with rules of administrative law ’ and that you must ‘ not neglect their existence in your general description of what English law is ’ otherwise ‘ you will frame a false and antiquated notion of our constitution ’ The fact that Robson felt the need to propound this view so strongly , and that Maitland 's thoughts seemed to have been almost entirely neglected , serve to indicate that conservative normativism had by the 1920s become established as the dominant tradition . |
| 14 | As I hope to have suggested , the main educational debate had by then turned from its concentration on the organization of education , characteristic of the l960s , to the consideration of its content and its costs . |
| 15 | They also show that political activity had by no means ousted the republicans ' commitment to armed force ; indeed it was seen as a necessary preliminary to the resumption of the military campaign . |
| 16 | Closures had practically ceased by 1980 but a far greater force had by then begun to take effect . |
| 17 | The western European had by 1880 begun to eat more wheaten bread , and more meat ( it was in 1878 that the first cargo of frozen meat was successfully landed in Europe ) and he was beginning , also , to consume more agricultural produce indirectly through industrial products which depended on animal or vegetable supplies . |
| 18 | Indeed , the achievement of a disciplinary identity based upon academic research had by the late 19305 more or less excluded the amateur scholar-gentleman . |
| 19 | In fact , such intellectual self-sufficiency had by then come to characterize English itself as an academic discipline . |
| 20 | The Royal Society had by the 1870s become an academy ; its elections were an accolade , bestowed after agonizing by a committee . |
| 21 | Numbers in the Senior School had by now reached 934 ( 576 boys and 358 girls ) and in the Junior 258 ( 149 and 109 ) . |