Example sentences of "have [vb pp] by a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An expansion led by companies will prove more sustainable : in the past year business investment in new machinery has jumped by a healthy 16% . |
| 2 | In the past three months output has fallen by an annualised 10.8% from its level during the three previous months . |
| 3 | In the past year , unemployment has risen by a massive 47 per cent. , but instead of rising by a similar amount , expenditure in 1991-92 will be 10 per cent . |
| 4 | In the last year , the construction level in the province has crumbled by a massive 18.5pc . |
| 5 | Since the Gulf war , the United States and Britain have used the United Nations to bleed Iraq ; and the sufferers have been primarily children , whose death-rate has increased by an estimated 400 per cent . |
| 6 | The numbers playing in Ulster has increased by an estimated 40 per cent in the last decade or so . |
| 7 | Education is now better resourced , with spending on each schoolchild having increased by a massive 42 per cent in the last 12 years . |
| 8 | ‘ did send a message by telephone which was grossly offensive , or ’ Means the message must have gone by a public telecommunication service and must be very offensive . |
| 9 | X is defined as something very like a human eye , sufficiently similar that the human eye could plausibly have arisen by a single alteration in X. If you have a mental picture of X and you find it implausible that the human eye could have arisen directly from it , this simply means that you have chosen the wrong K. Make your mental picture of X progressively more like a human eye , until you find an K that you do find plausible as an immediate predecessor to the human eye . |
| 10 | Presidential elections were held last May and the opposition candidate , Guillermo Endara , is believed to have won by a large majority , but the elections were annulled by the general amid renewed protests . |
| 11 | Another possibility is that we call statements expressing attitudes with this particular sort of stridency moral statements and allow as ethical all statements which express attitudes towards conduct of a certain special seriousness and pervasiveness in their influence on one 's own behaviour and such as one would like to find widely shared , but not necessarily to have supported by a social sanction . |
| 12 | He was also working for the Department of Archaeology and the Museum and , greatest profit of all , teaching English to the daughter of a rich immigrant Hungarian Jewish family who paid him , for just two lessons a week , more money than his poor father had earned by a hard week 's slog in the docks . |
| 13 | Rafael Eitan resigned as Minister of Agriculture on Dec. 24 in protest at Likud 's opposition to proposals for the direct election of the Prime Minister ; the Likud central committee had voted by a large majority on Dec. 23 against the direct election of the Prime Minister . |
| 14 | And Stena Sealink claimed that the total market had grown by a mammoth 39pc over the first four months of 1993 compared with the previous year . |
| 15 | And then the moment had passed , and tall and tanned and fit in the sunshine she had walked down the green street with the gardens either side of her , and had known by an instinctive glance that her mother still lived there , that nothing had changed . |
| 16 | If , instead , he had replied by a whole sentence — say — ‘ Mr Smith 's away this week , gone up North to see his old mother ’ this would have been understood whereas a proper name ( Edinburgh ) out of the blue and with no helpful context is n't easy ! |
| 17 | It 's surrounded by a large volume of air is n't it ? |
| 18 | It was the fourth rise in German interest rates this year and the first time for several years that they have risen by a full percentage point . |
| 19 | you ca n't hear me , right , ok , I 'll try and speak up a little bit louder , erm my work , I work erm here and I work abroad and I live in Durham , er I 'm a writer and erm one of the things that I 'm most interested in is using art as an inspiration for my work as a , as a writer and I 'd like to be able to show you by this talk , how I do that , erm , I have a few publications , my work 's performed by a local group actually based in Newcastle and I 'm a member of er a group called Another Story and my work 's been put to music by a composer and er a play and the play and sing that , that the pieces of |
| 20 | But perhaps the most staggering inch loss of all was from her thighs which have reduced by an amazing 5½ inches each ! |
| 21 | He went on to say : ‘ Student numbers in Scotland have increased by a remarkable 25 per cent since 1983 to nearly 110,000 and we fully expect by the end of the century that more than 40 per cent of young Scots will enter higher education . |
| 22 | In we 've had a menopause clinic in Glasgow for the last twenty four years erm , it 's run by a male doctor erm but we have been treating patients for that length time . |
| 23 | Languages ( but not motor cars ) have arisen by a branching process , and can be classified hierarchically . |
| 24 | a certain part of I beg your pardon sorry I 'm getting my definitions wrong may be looking after something which the erm corporate locations are solely within the south but it 's handled by an corporate account . |
| 25 | In this long , cold day and night I have managed by a great , indeed gargantuan , effort to write seventeen thousand five hundred and eighty-one words . |