Example sentences of "[noun pl] have by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover the number of universities in Joseph 's dominions had by 1790 been reduced to a mere three ( Vienna , Louvain and Pest ) and these had been forced to concentrate on such useful subjects as medicine and law and virtually to end the teaching of luxury ones such as foreign languages . |
| 2 | The fortunes of the coffee and tea industries have already been discussed above , and it uncertain whether Kandyans in coffee districts had by 1900 recovered the standard of living which they had attained in the early 1870s . |
| 3 | This motley bunch of adventurers , undesirables and patriots had by 1921 accepted the general lead of Lord Salisbury . |
| 4 | The rhynchosaurs had by that time became extinct . |
| 5 | From a tentative experiment , bringing in a few girl trainees , mostly from charitable institutions , the employment in Edinburgh of women compositors had by Edwardian times become an institution . |
| 6 | There was , however , a steady reduction of American troops from 1969 ; the almost half a million men had by 1973 been cut down to just over 20 000 . |
| 7 | The political stability of the Republic and its economic and social achievements have by common consent been admirable . |
| 8 | In substance , if not in theory , the German Social Democrats had by 1912 become a patriotic party , with only moderate criticisms of German expansionism . |