Example sentences of "had [verb] by [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of severely dependent people newly admitted had fallen by the end of the study . |
| 2 | According to an OECD report published on Feb. 28 , 1990 , the total debt of the east European countries ( including the Soviet Union ) had risen by the end of 1989 to US$114,000 million ( from US$99,000 million in 1988 and US$60,000 million in 1984 ) . |
| 3 | After several years during which agricultural surpluses had been substantially reduced , they had risen by the end of 1990 and stood at : cereals — 18,000,000 tonnes ; beef — 700,000 tonnes ; butter — 278,000 tonnes ; skimmed milk powder — 335,000 tonnes ; wine — 8,000,000 hectolitres ; and tobacco — 30,000 tonnes . |
| 4 | The Labour Party , after some initial ambivalence , had moved by the end of August to outright support of the war effort , accepting an electoral truce and joining with other parties to lend support to the recruiting drive . |
| 5 | And at Ealing itself , Balcon 's post-war ambition for a cinema that would project ‘ the true Briton to the rest of the world ’ as a ‘ leader in social reform , champion of civil liberties ’ had shrivelled by the end of the 1950s to a commitment to make films about ‘ day-dreamers , mild anarchists , little men who long to kick the boss in the teeth . ’ |
| 6 | This is about as far as the development of glues had got by the end of the war . |
| 7 | All parties to the talks except the Palestinians had agreed by the end of November to attend an eighth round of talks scheduled to open in Washington on Dec. 7 . |
| 8 | Much has already been said in the preceding pages about the subsequent progress through the learned hierarchy of the student who chose to become a muderris : with ability , luck , good connections or a combination of the three he would teach through a number of grades of medreses , eventually to turn to the mevleviyet kadiliks through which he might hope to rise ultimately to what had become by the end of the sixteenth century the principal office in the hierarchy , the Muftilik of Istanbul . |
| 9 | In 1990 , BP Chemicals had a total of nearly 20,500 employees worldwide , but 3,500 of them had left by the end of 1992 . |
| 10 | From this unpromising inheritance Leopold had created by the end of his reign , at least on paper , one of the best-governed states in Europe . |
| 11 | The janissaries , who were once the elite corps of the sultan 's army , had degenerated by the end of the eighteenth century into an unruly and lawless rabble , who were at best an embarrassment and at worst a threat to their rulers . |
| 12 | The team heads remained in telephone contact , but hopes of agreement had faded by the end of January 1990 when the North called off all dialogue until the annual Team Spirit military exercises were concluded . |
| 13 | Owing to the absence of widespread German air raids , some 45% of unaccompanied children and 80% of mothers with pre-school children had returned by the end of November 1939 . |
| 14 | The mood had changed by the end of the Sixties , and became more romantic , more allusive , softer and with many references to the past , which suited Lagerfeld 's handwriting much more than the brash futuristic Sixties looks had done . |