Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since March 1990 , the number of patients waiting more than two years has come down by 47 per cent . |
| 2 | The optimum completion time has come down by one minute to 11 minutes and more time is being allowed on the roads and tracks section before the cross country . |
| 3 | Domestic demand for water has shot up by 70 per cent over the last 30 years , especially in the affluent southeast . |
| 4 | Does he admit that the waiting list for day patients has shot up by 50 per cent ? |
| 5 | Filing requirements still apply when , say , the articles are altered informally , and an agm must still be held unless the company has opted out by elective resolution . |
| 6 | and that unemployment has gone up by 750,000 ? |
| 7 | May we have an urgent inquiry into why , over the past three years , the number of complaints against the health service in Lewisham and North Southwark has gone up by 100 per cent. , why there have been 30 complaints already this year and why serious complaints of maladministration and negligence have been made against Guy 's , King 's College and St. |
| 8 | The paper circulated demonstrates that since eighty-eight nine through to ninety-three four , whereas county council spending as a whole has gone up by thirty-eight percent , spending on the police has gone up by eighty-eight percent , and that 's more than double . |
| 9 | Members heard how the number of offences has gone up by seventeen percent in the past year although the actual rate of increase does seem to be slowing up . |
| 10 | THE price of a sunshine package holiday has gone up by eight per cent — to an average £350 a head . |
| 11 | In the last 12 months net unemployment in the whole of the European Community has gone up by 940,000 . |
| 12 | Figures for 1987 , compared with those for 1984 , show that the total annual output has increased by 18,000 tonnes , while manufacture within specification has gone up by 36,000 tonnes . |
| 13 | In the last 18 months of recession , unemployment in Britain has gone up by 1 million and the British economy has contracted by nearly 4 per cent . |
| 14 | But since we have switched to Radio 1 , they have perked up again and production has gone up by four per cent . ’ |
| 15 | It has gone up by four , five and 10 times as much among our competitors , and the right hon. Gentleman is still not doing anything to bring Britain out of recession , to give us recovery . |
| 16 | The number of nurses and midwives has gone up by 69,000 . |
| 17 | Mintel the consumer trend watchers claim that consumer spending on DIY and garden products has gone up by 96 per cent between 1983 and 1989 ; while spending on furniture and furnishings has increased by 52 per cent in the same period . |
| 18 | The paper circulated demonstrates that since eighty-eight nine through to ninety-three four , whereas county council spending as a whole has gone up by thirty-eight percent , spending on the police has gone up by eighty-eight percent , and that 's more than double . |
| 19 | Since then , the directors have done little other than line their own pockets , award themselves enormous pay increases and indulge in dodgy share options , all of which has been done at the expense of the domestic customer , whose bill has gone up by 40 per cent . |
| 20 | As a result , payload with full fuel has gone up by eighty per cent , and range after a maximum weight landing is now 3,000 miles against 1,800 miles for the GIV , enabling the SP to make more intermediate stops without refuelling . |
| 21 | ‘ The offer , ’ said the gentleman , ‘ has gone down by five thousand pounds . ’ |
| 22 | I 'm extremely sad to see that the price for glass has gone down by five pounds a ton which results in the er the income from the recycling of glass being halved . |
| 23 | Under the Prime Minister 's leadership , in the last 12 months alone more than 800,000 jobs have gone and during that period the number of people in employment in Britain has gone down by 800,000 . |
| 24 | Yes , Sally says we 'll do it , we 'll change it in the car alright , just as I was saying we had erm , we had roast dinner , Charlotte do n't aggravate him , we had roast lamb , erm and I 'd washed up by two o'clock |
| 25 | ‘ The newsagent across the road arrived with a huge pile of Mirrors at eight o'clock and he 'd sold out by 10 . |
| 26 | And when we 'd gone along fifteen kilometres we 'd gone up by four point eight metres . |
| 27 | It 's just those two that 'll have gone down by five per cent which are the sabre machine bearings . |
| 28 | If it is , it has to have come about by Darwinian selection of fluke genes . |
| 29 | Obviously , to even arrive at this sort of description , it is necessary to have found out by one kind of research or another , and by the added use of imagination , a lot about the sort of customers the advertising is trying to attract . |
| 30 | Paul Wells had eased off by this point and was actually beaten by his brother who won the domestic event . |