Example sentences of "many [noun pl] [verb] [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many bombs had been attached to cars . |
| 2 | Many bombs had been attached to cars . |
| 3 | Many reasons have been given for its demise : the potential high cost of registry operations ' insurance , especially since the participants ' liability had not been established ; the unwillingness of commodity traders to record their transactions in a central registry subject to inspection by competitors and tax authorities ; the reticence by the ultimate buyers of spot crude oil to acquire bills of lading from an entity designed to service intermediaries and speculators ; and the banks ' discomfort with the exclusive control of the registry business by one of their competitors . |
| 4 | They have been strongly promoted by the WIIC , and many projects have been assisted by the HIDB . |
| 5 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many taxes have been abolished since 1979 ; and if he will list them . |
| 6 | I asked him how many houses had been completed in 1991 , and I will tell him the answer . |
| 7 | Well the distance is equal to a hundred miles an hour , times how many hours has been travelling for ? |
| 8 | At last the government recognised what many researchers had been saying for years : that corporal punishment did not address the causes of bad behaviour , caused resentment among older pupils in particular , and was ‘ inimical to the quality of relationships between teachers and pupils upon which good behaviour is based ’ . |
| 9 | Many improvements have been made since Hillsborough , which was caused by a combination of factors . |
| 10 | The hon. Member for Worsley knows that many improvements have been made to the regulatory system . |
| 11 | Many attempts have been made in the House to reform the private Bill procedure and many of them have collapsed because it has always been easier for a private measure to be introduced . |
| 12 | For example , many coins have been recovered at the battlefield of Alesia ( Alise-Sainte-Reine , Côte d'Or , in central France ) , the site of the decisive battle in 52 BC between Julius Caesar and the coalition of Gallic tribes led by the chieftain Vercingetorix . |
| 13 | Many Germans had been caught in the houses . |
| 14 | Since the 1939–45 war , many doubts have been expressed about the civilising effects of the arts . |
| 15 | Many books have been written about this topic alone and cheese is indeed as international as food itself . |
| 16 | We learned later that many listeners had been moved by the simple eloquence of Gladstone Murray 's broadcast . |
| 17 | Similar fates await buildings formerly owned by the secret police , which in many districts have been inherited by the local authorities . |
| 18 | Many hormones have been implicated in the colonic response to food , including cholecystokinin , gastrin , motilin , neurotensin , pancreatic polypeptide , and PYY. cholecystokinin increases recrosigmoid segmenting pressure activity when administered exogenously , and the response can be reproduced by the administration of intraduodenal nutrients known to cause release of cholecystokinin . |
| 19 | Many solutions had been proposed including an Alpine style rack railway . |
| 20 | Today 's results show that many teenagers have been hit by the recession , with the average pocket money received falling this year . |
| 21 | Many defendants have been fined of more than a thousand pounds , simnplky because they earned reasonable salries . |
| 22 | So many defendants have been squeezed into court that extra benches were needed to make one large dock . |
| 23 | So many defendants have been squeezed into court that extra benches were needed to make one large dock . |
| 24 | The plants grown as herbs in many countries have been used by the inhabitants because it was , and is , natural to use the materials found in the world around one for food , shelter , health and warmth . |
| 25 | Many articles have been written on communication skills , which may assist with ideas . |
| 26 | As a result of this expansion many settlements had been established on land that was of poor quality , such as the high heaths of Dartmoor . |
| 27 | However , many trusts have been running for less than five years . |
| 28 | But what is more surprising is not that mechanised transport has had its fair share of false starts but that since the oil crisis many planners have been looking at abandoned forms of transport . |
| 29 | ‘ Shop-taverns ’ , serving the passing trade as well as the locals , had become common in many towns , whilst many pubs had been partitioned into two distinct areas — the bar room and the tap room . |
| 30 | Many parents dread being asked about death because it is such a painful and difficult subject . |