Example sentences of "it [vb past] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US got the ‘ best ’ of the Cubans and Iranians , as it got many from 1848 ( Pinkerton , the organiser of anti-union factory guards was originally a British Chartist ) , and is now taking the cream of former communist states . |
| 2 | Ted lived with his mother , an arrangement which , while it lacked many of the usual tragi-comedy trappings of such situations , did present certain problems . |
| 3 | So when Fleischmann and Pons announced test-tube fusion as a source of energy — which was the ‘ angle ’ that the media took up and portrayed it as a clean source — the news that they apparently saw tritium as a fusion product was lost on most media , but it made many scientists concerned and others excited . |
| 4 | My one great experience with the medical world had been a wartime wound , a shattered knee and leg , that although it incurred many months in hospital , to a young man of twenty-two , seemed to be totally external . |
| 5 | It retained many of the traditional features of stations , including a clock-tower more than 100 ft. high , and large circulation areas adorned with tiles with Maori motifs , and frescos depicting New Zealand scenes . |
| 6 | He noted that when Harris sampled at weekends it found many more Tories than on weekdays . |
| 7 | As well as being practical , the end result will look as if it cost many times as much . |
| 8 | In 1976 the Layfield Report , Local Government Finance , suggested that a local income tax should supplement the rates , although it listed many difficulties associated with such a venture . |
| 9 | The desire to recover it drove many black peasants to support the nationalist guerrillas in the war against white minority rule . |
| 10 | It was called mustard gas and was used at Ypres in 1917 , when it caused many thousands of casualties . |
| 11 | This case was so complex and difficult that it filled many books of written record and there was so much opposing evidence that it was difficult to get at the truth , but he at last clarified everything and settled it with such skill and wisdom that all commended his extreme cleverness . |
| 12 | It attracted many workers to Glasgow from all parts of Scotland . |
| 13 | Mr Seymour headed an inquiry into the Bellgrove crash but when his report was eventually published , it ignored many of the recommendations of a separate fatal accident inquiry into it . |
| 14 | She believes that it prevented many Labour supporters from registering on the electoral roll ( in the hope of avoiding payment ) , thus depriving Mr Kinnock of a large number of votes . |
| 15 | There it affected many trees and shrubs , including the valuable timber tree Ougenia oojeinensis . |
| 16 | It seemed many of these things were squirming around together . |
| 17 | But it seemed many of the biggest news stories came from the world of industry , most notably , the miners ' strike . |
| 18 | It happened many times over a period of weeks and , between the … visitations … there were moments when she doubted her own sanity . |
| 19 | It raised many questions . |
| 20 | From a therapeutic aspect , penicillin was marvellous because it cured many dangerous bacterial infections , but it was tiresome because it was inactive by mouth ( it was destroyed by the acidity of the stomach contents ) , it acted for a very short time ( it was rapidly excreted by the kidneys ) and so was of little value unless given by injection at intervals of not longer than 3 hours , and because , after a time , the normal processes of evolution led to the appearance of resistant strains of the microbes which had previously been sensitive to penicillin . |
| 21 | It taught many others how classical style could be adapted and developed . |
| 22 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 23 | As well as the obvious competition this tournament offered , it reunited many former national junior players and was enjoyed by all . |
| 24 | Whether this means that life originated just once , or that it originated many times , each origin acquiring a different code , but that one origin gave rise to more successful competitors , we do not know . |
| 25 | Probably it originated many times by independent ‘ mutation ’ . |
| 26 | This took the place of a pre-release course ( which would be impossible to plan in an institution where some men were so far away from release and others might be released on parole licence at very short notice ) but it covered many of the same topics . |
| 27 | In most of the present liberal-democratic countries it required many decades of agitation and organization , and in few countries was anything like it achieved until late in the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | In fact , on any view it started many years before that , though in a haphazard manner . |
| 29 | When the first draft of Li 's report was presented a fortnight ago it incorporated many of the demands for faster reform voiced earlier this year by China 's elder statesman , Deng Xiaoping . |
| 30 | His thirty-minute ramble was greatly appreciated by all present , as it enabled many to sleep off their pre-meal excess of Nettles . |