Example sentences of "had [vb pp] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had guessed by that time that , since he had n't yet stated why he 'd waited an hour to see her , he was saving what he 'd come to tell her until they were inside her flat . |
| 2 | THE Italian computer-maker , Olivetti , yesterday in Ivrea revealed that its losses for 1992 had jumped by 40 per cent and that it would ask shareholders to invest a further 900 billion lire ( £392 million ) through a capital increase . |
| 3 | A French government report released on July 2 showed that foreign orders for French weapons had soared by 70 per cent in 1990 to F33,400 million ( US$5,400 million ) , largely because of the Gulf war . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , it was among the southern , pastoral peoples that social stratification had developed by that time , so that the label ‘ feudal ’ is attached , for instance , to the Buryat Mongols and the Tatars . |
| 5 | Looking past Adam , she saw Fand had stopped by another set of steps winding up into the rock . |
| 6 | Profitability had fallen by one-third and the fast and highly synchronized boom of the previous couple of years had failed to restore it . |
| 7 | Yet by 1911 its population had fallen by four thousand . |
| 8 | At the same time he said that new rules would be drawn up on the ownership of property , in preparation for the privatization of numerous state enterprises ; in this context he demanded a cut in bank interest rates , from a typical level of 50 per cent to around 20 per cent , so as to encourage private investment in industry , where he said that productivity had fallen by 10 per cent since the start of the year . |
| 9 | A government survey of student expenditure , published in April 1988 , showed that since 1982 alone the real value of the grant had fallen by 6.2 per cent . |
| 10 | Finland 's gross domestic product ( GDP ) had fallen by 6.2 per cent in 1991 in part as a result of the collapse of Finland 's traditional Soviet markets , and the government had devalued the markka in November 1991 [ see p. 38587 ] . |
| 11 | The yen had fallen by 11 per cent in the first quarter of 1990 , and by 25 per cent in the twelve months since March 1989 . |
| 12 | In his speech to the Supreme Soviet , the Deputy Prime Minister responsible for economic policy , Yegor Gaidar , said that Russia 's gross national product ( GNP ) , which had fallen by 11 per cent in 1991 , would fall by a further 19 per cent in the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 13 | He also admitted that party membership had fallen by 4,200,000 in the previous 18 months to 15,000,000 — the level of 1973 . |
| 14 | With regard to the UK , a recent test by Winters using the " Almost Ideal Demand System " , led to the conclusion that the British trade balance had worsened by £3.1 billion and UK output had fallen by 1.5 per cent resulting from joining the CU of the EC ( Winters 1987 ) . |
| 15 | Figures released by the State Committee for Statistics on Jan. 26 showed that in 1990 gross national product ( GNP ) had fallen by 2 per cent , produced national income by 4 per cent , and labour productivity by 3 per cent . |
| 16 | Consumer goods production had fallen by 12-24 per cent , but there were more consumer goods in the shops , because a higher proportion of consumer spending was now going on food . |
| 17 | Exports had fallen by 19 per cent , and wholesale prices had risen 22-fold . |
| 18 | Outgoing BAIE national chairman Phillipa Burrow , who appeared with her in the BBC studios at Pebble Mill in Birmingham , said the number of cot deaths had fallen by 60 per cent since Anne Diamond had brought them to the attention of the public and the Government . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , the ECA report noted that in 1989 food production in Africa had actually grown faster than population , for only the third time in 20 years ( 3.4 per cent , against population growth of 3.2 per cent ) , and that food imports had fallen by 12 per cent . |
| 20 | Following a cabinet discussion of a report on the environmental situation , he said that since 1989 the emissions of solid pollutants had fallen by 12 per cent , sulphur oxides by 11 per cent and nitrogen oxides by 21 per cent . |
| 21 | Company profits had fallen by 40 pc this year . |
| 22 | During David Kirby 's period as head of L&SE , the sector 's call on the public service obligation grant had fallen by 36 per cent during three years , and Chris Green 's task was to reduce ( if not ultimately obviate the need for ) the grant . |
| 23 | Genscher announced a DM10,000,000 aid package and additional humanitarian aid to Georgia , where official statistics , reported on Radio Moscow World Service on April 8 , showed that real incomes had fallen by 30 per cent in 1991 and that four-fifths of the population were living below the poverty line . |
| 24 | Government income had fallen by 21.5 per cent because of low tax payments from privatized businesses , the collapse of the Soviet market for Polish goods and the Polish recession . |
| 25 | By May 12 the Bombay stock exchange index had fallen by 1,047 points or almost 24 per cent of the market 's capitalization since the scandal first emerged at the end of April . |
| 26 | He presented ‘ … a very gloomy picture of adult education in this county … ’ : the number of classes had declined from thirty-five in 1937–38 to twenty-five in 1938- 39 and the number of enrolled students had fallen by some 30% , and all at a time when activity in other counties was increasing significantly . |
| 27 | The LCC area had declined in population by 0.2 per cent overall , but within that Lewisham had increased by 26 per cent and Wandsworth by 34 per cent ; the population of Middlesex was up by 42 per cent in ten years , Essex and Surrey both by 30 per cent , while the population of Ireland had fallen by another 2 per cent . |
| 28 | Clarke explained that if Halsbury had won by such a majority he could not have expected elevation to a judgeship . |
| 29 | The 72-hole tussle ended square at two games each but the countback , including a recount , concluded that XEU had won by one hole . |
| 30 | He said that article 9 was an illustration of the right that the House of Commons had won by 1688 to exclusive cognisance of its own proceedings . |