Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That representation has become false by silence . |
| 2 | Whatever the rest of the season may hold for Aberdeen , they have on their side a ferocious competitor whose appetite for the fray has gone undiminished by time . |
| 3 | She had only passed her driving test after her marriage and this was the first time that she had driven unaccompanied by night . |
| 4 | In the chemistry I did you seem to me to be terribly empirical , you had an inorganic substance and you had to learn absolute by heart what it did if you put it in water and you heated it and you did this that and the other . |
| 5 | Our finest rock climbers have become obsessed by performance , by standards and numbers . |
| 6 | But in music , for example , these older relations have become minor by comparison with the new corporate institutions of popular music , based on the new technologies of disc and cassette , where the corporate capitalist mode is decisive . |
| 7 | Scientists on board Greenpeace 's Rainbow Pacific research ship have claimed that whales in the southern reaches of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman have become disorientated by sonar signals emitted from Allied ships during the war with Iraq . |