Example sentences of "have [verb] by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She has travelled by ordinary train on a number of occasions . ’ |
| 2 | As a result of tight every-day control costs other operating charges at seventy eight point seven million have fallen as the percentage of sales by point nine per cent to twenty four point six per cent and depreciation in the period has fallen by two point three million to eight point four million . |
| 3 | Near the burning oil fields its effects are marked : the temperature has fallen by 10–20 degreesC ( 18–36 degreesF ) , the light is only 1% of normal . |
| 4 | Although the wound circumference has shortened by this stage to about ⅓ of its initial length , the individual cells at the wound margin do not appear narrowed . |
| 5 | It dates to about 1780 and looks as if it has landed by magic carpet . |
| 6 | It can be done before it appears on the air , either in a private room or in a theatre , to a large or small audience ; it can be done after it has appeared by personal interview or ( as frequently in the USA ) by telephone . |
| 7 | The number of in-patients treated has increased by one point two million . |
| 8 | The number of in- patients treated has increased by one point two million . |
| 9 | Guinness Flight , which has about £80m in its International Accumulation Fund , said the amount of investment in its funds has increased by 43 p.c. during the first three months . |
| 10 | She has sunk by that time . |
| 11 | Like the Institute , it criticises the regime which does not give a taxpayer who has defaulted by one day any incentive to pay quickly . |
| 12 | Apart from North Sea projects on the drawing board , progress is expected during 1993 towards the development of the huge Mars discovery it shares with Shell in the Gulf of Mexico and the oil reserves it has established by pioneering exploration work in Colombia . |
| 13 | ‘ About some stolen property , ’ said the other , who , I 'd decided by this time , had shifty eyes . |
| 14 | I 'd retired by this time . |
| 15 | We 'd stuck by each other for about four or five years . ’ |
| 16 | Because you should have you should have heard by this time . |
| 17 | He could have flown by private jet to an East Anglian airfield , been driven from there to the heliport , boarded the chopper and flown to the manor . |
| 18 | Occasionally , however , shortly after organic life got a toehold , Earth 's surface water may have evaporated by frequent asteroid impacts , which had the effect of sterilizing large areas of the globe , according to a group of American geophysicists based in California . |
| 19 | Nori was successful in having overturned by legal action or the threat of it a number of government proposals in late 1989 and early 1990 . |
| 20 | The calories provided by the extra alcohol , sugar , and chocolate were some 500 to 600 per day , and as Alan did not gain weight during the experiment we know that his intake of good foods must have fallen by this amount , some 25 per cent of his normal daily intake . |
| 21 | After losing some men and witnessing some horrific atrocities that it might have prevented by timely action , the force began to jump in to keep the peace . |
| 22 | This they did not do and they should have ascertained by sticking writing into the National Westminster Bank to confirm that sufficient funds were available for the completion of the proposed transaction and that the terms upon which this finance was to be made available had been agreed . |
| 23 | ‘ So what ? ’ , said the Federation , having shown by budgetary analysis that British pensioners also fared on just 7/ a week after rent and fuel costs had been paid . |
| 24 | He can not only bring to our remembrance what Jesus taught , but can reveal to us the deeper significance of his person , his death and resurrection which we could never have grasped by historical contemporaneity . |
| 25 | All I would say is that , when the plan reaches modification stage , the Department will be looking at that the situation very closely indeed , and at that stage I would fully expect that even though I wo n't be here to do it myself , as I shall have retired by that stage , |
| 26 | The last of the shore birds will probably have arrived by this time . |
| 27 | In extreme cases this may involve a deliberate distortion of the exchange price , or a means to profit at the expense of customers , typically where the broker fills the customer 's trade at a price that is worse than he could have obtained by competitive trading , in order to benefit another trader . |
| 28 | The likelihood of these histograms having arisen by random sampling from smooth generator distributions was 1 in 35 before and 1 in 26 after the tetanus . |
| 29 | Most will have discovered by this time that love involves risk . |
| 30 | Now they 're saying things should have improved by this time next year . |