Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other such clues may have gone unnoticed by the researcher , though responded to by the subjects . |
| 2 | The instruments sometimes steamed up , the revcounter failed altogether and the carpet in both footwells had come adrift by the time the car had reached the end of its test . |
| 3 | Though the whole line from London to Langley Mill never finally came under one ownership , by 1897 this had become possible by the negotiation of options to purchase the remaining sections north of Leicester . |
| 4 | Dr Buchanan has shown this to have been the case with the Bath Turnpike Trust where it had become crucial by the end of the eighteenth century when the share of the landed interest had dropped below 10 per cent . |
| 5 | Sometimes these were ad hominem arrangements-that in Kefe was dissolved after a year and that in Kutahya when the holder moved on to his next post , though Kutahya was recreated a mevleviyet in 989/1581 — but many of them had become permanent by the end of the century . |
| 6 | Before British accession to the European Community in 1973 , the original six Member States had become concerned by the way in which the Community 's Common Agricultural Policy ( CAP ) was accelerating depopulation in mountain areas . |
| 7 | The decree was intended to wipe out the illegal cash holdings of black-marketeers , and to drain from the economy up to 20 per cent of the money supply , which had become bloated by the printing of new money to cover budget deficits in recent years . |
| 8 | Mrs Singh had seemed mystified by the advice , as she believed the school should be responsible for progress in English and mathematics and shrugged helplessly when I suggested that parents also had an important role . |
| 9 | It was perhaps no wonder that his ‘ quiet , nice ’ wife had hair that had gone white by the time she was thirty . |
| 10 | Sent up early to the dormitory , I had to kneel naked by the side of my bed . |