Example sentences of "[conj] have [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our choice of ‘ aware ’ , as a philosophically uncorrupted word which can help us to approach philosophical problems from a different angle , does have something to do with its recent currency in the valuations of ordinary discourse , as when someone is said to apply abstract principles without being aware of other people as persons , or to have lost by too exclusive concentration on the uses of things awareness of the colours of dawn and the scent of the flowers . |
| 2 | This meant they must have had a hired car to take them to the airport or have gone by tube . |
| 3 | In 1991 the company recorded a 35 per cent increase in the sales of diesels , all in a total market that has dipped by 20 per cent . |
| 4 | Well , I 'd done that there , and that had gone by the time I went to the hospital and I thought brilliant ! |
| 5 | In the event , wiser counsels prevailed ; the proposals that had emerged by the summer of 1989 from the subject working parties and the National Curriculum Council were far from being the national syllabuses that had at first seemed likely . |
| 6 | He displayed perfectly that contradiction of attitude ( or ‘ supreme paradox ’ , as Phillipson puts it ) in ‘ expert ’ thinking on old age that had emerged by the 1940s — on the one hand portraying the elderly as a disastrous burden on society ( men over the age of 65 and women ova 60 had formed 6.2 per cent of the British population in 1901 , an estimated 12.0 per cent in 1941 , and would be 20.8 per cent in 1971 ) , yet on the other hand , paying lip-service to their status as an exceptionally deserving group : ‘ Provision made for age must be satisfactory ; otherwise great numbers may suffer . |
| 7 | Brockway was writing in the context of a prison population for England and Wales that had declined by two-thirds over the previous fifty years . |
| 8 | An and that had stopped by World War Two would you say ? |
| 9 | Of the seats , 5% deviated from the electoral quota by 20% ( though this was down from the 39% of seats that had deviated by that much on the 1982 register . ) |
| 10 | The letter which has just been found refers to something like called a police operational order authorising the raid , saying that had disappeared by the time the police complaints authority started looking for it . |
| 11 | After the Tower Report was published in February 1987 , and the PROF notes revealed that had passed by computer between the characters , the basement became home to a band of five-o'clock-shadowed Boy Scouts delighting in their own secrecy . |
| 12 | Manners that have gone by the board |
| 13 | In the few weeks that have gone by a boy from the village has been killed by an elephant . |
| 14 | This has often been achieved because of the professional relationships that have developed by actively working to improve levels of understanding and the quality of leadership . |
| 15 | The belief of the City Council is that , notwithstanding there are clearly difficult traffic problems in the city , there is more opportunity to encourage people to use other more environmentally friendly modes of travel by locating development in and on the edge of the main urban area , a view that 's supported by P P G thirteen and the research document onto planning , transport and planning emis planning and transport emissions on which it was based . |
| 16 | through sexual abuse , and I think we spend a lot of our time , and I think even for teachers , we spend a lot of our time undoing a lot of the damage of helping young people , undo a lot of damage that 's done by sex . |
| 17 | Really , two things brought up investigation to consider the first is with trusts the very important piece of work that 's done by trusts on behalf of the provence another provence may or may not know that there are the trusts have now been er , between trusts erm South Wales trusts erm |
| 18 | Chairman , I 'm delighted to hear that er we are actually talking seriously about improving the recycling and the possibilities of the waste that 's created by our society . |
| 19 | It 's that that 's simply the advice the advice that 's given by the Teachers ' Pensions Agency . |
| 20 | It can symbolize enthusiasm , you 're on fire with love , you know and er you know the , the power that 's generated by fire . |
| 21 | It 's a disease that 's characterised by fatiguable muscle weakness . |
| 22 | I think there 's another point around that about erm , the image that 's portrayed by the media and and to be successful in your career you must be a slim , well made up woman erm , and thinness equates with success and an ability to get on in life . |
| 23 | There are some people erm it was Liz Hall and Siobahn Lloyd who wrote a book called Surviving Child Sex Abuse and er they reckon that the construct of sexuality is something that 's invented by adults . |
| 24 | nobody nobody can issue V Os unless they 're delegated to do so , in , in the letter that 's signed by me . |
| 25 | Alright , logging the data does n't change the nature of the data , what it does do is that it re-scales the data , okay so the only thing that 's , that 's , that 's changed by logging , right , is the scale of the cr is the vertical scale on the graph , right , but essentially we are still trying to model the same series and N T C is essentially the same series as T C. |
| 26 | Er , it 's not a funding system that er that we would choose to work under , we would want to keep the rents as low as possible er , but it 's one that 's set by central government through the housing corporation and that we have to live with . |
| 27 | Murray said : ‘ Jones has worked hard at his game and has progressed by leaps and bounds . |
| 28 | A good suggestion might be , in the past this child has suffered a loss of some figure it was dependent on , and has compensated by becoming highly independent . |
| 29 | Having entered for the shot putt and having practised by throwing half bricks at our next-door neighbour 's cat ( which happily stayed out of range of the missiles whilst becoming increasingly terrified by my ever-improving grunts ) I arrived at school feeling pretty confident . |
| 30 | They are not indeed , like proper names , unmeaning ; for the words sensation of white signify , that the sensation which I so denominate resembles other sensations which I remember to have had before , and to have called by that name . |