Example sentences of "the [noun] have been [verb] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er the story 's been told many many times that Lloyd George advised them , I 've forgotten the name of the old man , but his wife was buried in the churchyard , and his family wanted to bury him next to her , but they wanted the nonconformist |
| 2 | Aristotle himself believed that the arts and the sciences have been discovered many times and then lost again . |
| 3 | The exterior has been altered many times and now only the lower parts of the western towers and the main nave and choir show Romanesque work . |
| 4 | Their evidence for this judgement , as with those presented in most of their surveys , was loosely stated and difficult to verify , but the argument has been echoed many times in recent years in Britain by academics and policy-makers alike . |
| 5 | Eventually , after the subject had been raised many times by the Inspector , the CEGB gave in and agreed to produce the figures ‘ without prejudice , to its main argument . |
| 6 | The Earth has been visited many times in its history , but it 's all been covered up . |