Example sentences of "have [verb] by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is further submitted that , as Parliament has intervened by the Act of 1976 in the matter of pre-natal injuries to unborn children , it should be left to Parliament to effect any further change in the law that may be thought necessary or to develop the law from where it was left by the Divisional Court in Ireland in Walker 's case . |
| 2 | As to the political secrets that the KGB has gathered by the basketful over the last 40 years , few seem to have made much impact on the monolithic structure of Russia 's political machine . |
| 3 | In any event , the idea that Lazarsfeld had discovered a ubiquitous method of social research has to fall by the wayside . |
| 4 | It is clear that all resistance to shearing has vanished by the time that the atoms are balanced on top of each other , which will occur when the whole material has been distorted in shear through an angle of 30° . |
| 5 | The balance of this reduced population has changed dramatically : the proportion of under-fives has dropped by a quarter , and the numbers of those at school leaving age by just under a quarter , giving an overall decline of 15 per cent in the population aged under fifteen . |
| 6 | ‘ 3(1) Any assumption by a person of the rights of an owner amounts to an appropriation , and this includes , where he has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it , any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner . |
| 7 | ‘ 3(1) Any assumption by a person of the rights of an owner amounts to an appropriation , and this includes , where he has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it , any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner . |
| 8 | This result is probably implicit in the concept of appropriation ( or ‘ conversion ’ ) ; but it is made explicit by the provision in clause 3(1) that a person 's assumption of the rights of an owner ‘ includes , where he has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it , any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner . ’ |
| 9 | Section 3(1) deems there to be an appropriation where the accused " has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it " . |
| 10 | He has come by the property without stealing it and has later assumed a right to it by keeping it . |
| 11 | True , industrial economies ' output was flat in 1991 and grew by only 1.5% in 1992 , while Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union suffered a serious slump , but in the developing world output has grown by an average of no less than 5% in the past two years , as many economies in Asia and Latin America have boomed . |
| 12 | Comparing this point in the economic cycle with the same point 10 years ago , during that period manufacturing output has risen by a quarter , manufacturing investment by a third , manufacturing productivity by a half and manufacturing exports by three quarters . |
| 13 | Crime has risen by an average of six per cent in England and Wales with the largest rise in rural areas . |
| 14 | In real terms the cost of rail and bus travel has risen by an average of no more than five per cent above the rate of inflation in the last five years . |
| 15 | A friend of mine told me that although he is a committed Christian , when he leaves home and goes to work he has to play by the rules of commerce . |
| 16 | COMPLETED FAMILY SIZE — The number of children ( live-born babies ) a woman has borne by the time she has reached the end of the childbearing age . |
| 17 | and what they hope is that most it has sort of been has disappeared by the time it gets to us |
| 18 | — a substantial reduction — and the number waiting longer than one year has reduced by a quarter . |
| 19 | According to Kovda ( 1983 ) soil erosion has increased by a factor of five since the beginning of settled agriculture and has resulted in the destruction of c. 4.3 × 10 ha of productive land . |
| 20 | The sales forecasts amounted to 9 megabytes on Lotus , but now under Ark the amount of data has been reduced to 6 megabytes , and the number of presentation styles has increased by a factor of about four to between 10 and 12 . |
| 21 | That working-class wages would remain at subsistence level — the fact is that the real wage of the average worker has increased by a factor of over ten between 1900–70 in the UK and by a factor of fourteen in the U S over the same period ; that collective ownership of the means of production would result in an increase of wealth for the workers and so improve their lot — the fact is that in both Russia and Cuba it has been necessary to restore discipline in factories by introducing a military routine with the surplus value being siphoned off by the state ; that communist revolutions would start in such advanced industrial countries such as Britain , France , America and Germany — the fact is that a socialist revolution has taken place in none of these countries ; that conflicts between states are the results of capitalism and will cease under communism — the fact is that in the streets of Budapest and Prague , in Afghanistan and on the Soviet-Chinese border we have seen the power of the Red Army being used against fellow communists ; that the income difference between capitalists and workers will rise — the fact is that in all industrial countries the effective after-tax , after-benefits real income gap between rich and poor has diminished ; that capitalism will collapse because of its internal contradictions — the fact is that capitalism has not collapsed in any Western country , yet . |
| 22 | Will my hon. Friend remind Opposition Members that under this Government manufacturing output has increased by a quarter whereas it fell under the last Labour Government ? |
| 23 | National health service capital spending has increased by an average of 4.3 per cent . |
| 24 | Scotland , too , although the state of their sea defences will depend on the course the opening phase has taken by the time the countries meet on June 20 . |
| 25 | Agreements there have generally been concluded for an indefinite term and ( linked with this ) no ‘ peace obligation ’ has arisen by the application of the agreement , in contrast to Germany . |
| 26 | However , the question in the way it is posed by educators usually calls for an answer in terms of commitment rather than of attitude in school or in society and the implementation has begun by the time the thought of research arises . |
| 27 | In setting out to achieve such aims , an advertiser usually has to abide by a number of laws and codes of practice . |
| 28 | Whatever the reason for a refusal , the church musician has to abide by the publisher 's decision . |
| 29 | In addition , he pointed out that the price/performance ratio has changed by a factor of 6,000 in the past few years : ‘ If the car industry had had the same change that the computer industry has experienced since 1960 , a car that cost $10,000 in 1960 would now be sold for $1 , ’ he said . |
| 30 | The average age at first marriage is now about 23 years and the vast majority of the population , 90 per cent , has married by the age of 30 ( CSO 1990 ) . |