Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [noun sg] by [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The hon. Gentleman has no evidence for asserting that standards have dropped month by month .
2 In 1979 , they pointed out that what we have called suburbanization by addition had increased this by nine times since 1901 , whereas population had increased by only 25% .
3 improved value for money should be obtained by cutting down on unnecessary procedures , ( e.g. committals , remand hearings ) , strengthening controls on the progress of legally aided proceeding , changing listing practices , and restricting legal aid to solicitors who have demonstrated competence by membership of an appropriate panel ;
4 The two sets of metaphors have persisted side by side , not only in the West since the ancient Greeks , but in other civilizations as well ( Chinese ming ‘ bright ’ is the ordinary word for the enlightenment of the sage , which is often compared to a mirror reflecting things exactly as they are , while te ‘ get ’ is used of insight ; ‘ I 've got it ! ’ says the disciple to his master as he catches on to the Tao ) .
5 In Somalia , Sudan , Ethiopia and many other poverty-stricken countries , the brutal violence of local warlords combined with the effects of drought , have brought death by starvation to hundreds of thousands .
6 We have defined inductance by eqn ( 4.33 ) without discussing its effect upon the current-voltage relationship .
7 But she and the charity have stood side by side and today she was welcomed like an old friend in Milton Keynes .
8 Although he was not the very first , he has come to be regarded as the pioneer , bush-whacking anthropologist , the originator of the doctrine that until you have lived cheek by jowl with an exotic tribe and spoken their language fluently you can not claim full professional status .
9 Very simple and very complex organisms have lived side by side for a long time and both have evolved together .
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