Example sentences of "have [verb] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was a wreck and had planned to go and do something about it once dinner had been prepared , but now that would have to go by the board — there would be no time — and , besides , she could hardly appear to Luke 's business partner and his wife in one of Luke 's towelling robes , could she ? |
| 2 | People can ‘ change their luck ’ , and can in a way say ‘ No ’ to divine Providence , though of course if they do they have to stand by the consequences of their decision . |
| 3 | Depending on the amount , you could put it towards paying off a mortgage , extending your home , taking a special holiday , even moving house — things you may have promised yourself for years , comforts you will certainly have earned by the time you retire . |
| 4 | But the cruellest experiences the victim 's pain however great as less than his own enhancement of power however small , so that the suffering of a victim who is being crippled for life may be deliberately empathized by the torturer , but as less than his own titillation , which he may have forgotten by the time he goes home to lunch . |
| 5 | ‘ They 'll have come by the villa , ’ said the Brigadier enigmatically . |
| 6 | He could n't possibly have come by the letter honestly or even accidentally . ’ |
| 7 | And so now , we have one precise target , and the other two will have to slip by the board . |
| 8 | Well , I think we had much higher hopes before the Gulf crisis , I think what many people are saying now is that the peace dividend , the money that we could have saved by the end of the Cold War , will in fact , that peace dividend will be diluted by the Gulf . |
| 9 | A Working Party has already been set up for this purpose and will have met by the time this issue of ‘ Contact ’ is published and mailed to registered Members of Convocation . |
| 10 | Because of time lags in the production process , the cost of replacing inventories may well have risen by the time that the raw materials are used to make finished goods and then sold . |
| 11 | All 20,891 patients received 300–325 mg aspirin daily by mouth , starting at the time of randomisation ; thus a substantial antithrombotic effect would have occurred by the end of the thrombolytic infusion . |
| 12 | Spread of the disease can already have occurred by the time the characteristic abscesses develop . |
| 13 | Niall may even have surfaced by the time you join us . ’ |
| 14 | Bleakly she wondered what sort of person she would have become by the time that happened . |
| 15 | You did not have to rush and worry that it would have disappeared by the time you caught up with it . |
| 16 | Like all the gardens here , it took several weeks to put together , but will have disappeared by the end of next weekend . |
| 17 | He damaged ribs and his left hip in the opening day defeat at Sheffield United but should have recovered by the weekend . |
| 18 | Sewell at least must have benefited by the visits , and the varied material he brought home , including books as well as horseshoes , would surely have been put to use in the Veterinary College . |
| 19 | I also thinking about what we 're going to do is we would end up sounding like a Foster and Allen song anyway you know not deliberately but I think you know by the time we 'd have have by the time we do the way we 'd be able to do it it would sound like Foster and Allen . |
| 20 | Erm , now bearing in mind that half the year has gone , or will have gone by the time anybody arrived here , erm it seemed to me that where I , my analysis of that situation was that if we were going to achieve our target times , erm , then the theory would seem to be that we ought to make , er , two appointments now , I E two appointments for half the year will be equivalent to one appointment for the year , and that will produce the number of investigative hours which roughly that the formula says we need to knock off the required number of complaints in the required number of times . |
| 21 | How much food colouring will a child have eaten by the age of 12 years old ? |
| 22 | We do n't have to live by the sweat of our brow . |
| 23 | That book is all about the idea that the world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary , and that the extraordinary should n't have to live by the dictates of the mediocre majority . |
| 24 | ‘ You are right , my brother , ’ Edward replied , more heartened than he would have admitted by the prince 's words . |
| 25 | Work on drilling more than 100 anchors should already have started by the time you read this . |
| 26 | What might Jesus have meant by the Parable of the Sower when he first told it ? |
| 27 | The biggest shock in the new round of cuts is that IBM 's forecasting last year was so abysmal that despite the fact that 40,000 people will have left by the end of the year where it was only counting on shedding 20,000 , it still has to make more cuts . |
| 28 | SOCCER : Harwich and Parkeston manager Martin Head is currently thinking over his future with the Jewson League club , which suggests he will have left by the start of next season.Head says , ‘ Both the club and myself are looking to next season and we are in the middle of talks . |
| 29 | However , at the Secret Life of the Fax Machine exhibition which opens at the Science Museum in London today , Bain 's patent specification will be on display along with a drawing of how it would have worked by the cartoonist Tim Hunkin , who uncovered the 1843 patent . |
| 30 | London Stock Exchange dealings in Foreign & Colonial PEP Investment Trust should have begun by the time this issue reaches readers . |