Example sentences of "many [noun pl] [verb] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the distance is equal to a hundred miles an hour , times how many hours has been travelling for ? |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | However , many trusts have been running for less than five years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This may sound an obvious sort of compromise , but it is the kind of ethical advice many managers have been looking for . |
| 6 | They will say , ‘ Look how many subversives have been working under the very nose of Colonel Stok . ’ |
| 7 | His article in the Transactions of the Würzburg Physical Medical Society was promptly reported in England and America and , as many scientists had been working in the field , was widely taken up . |