Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | The course was n't advertised because the WSR has received so many requests from people wanting to ride on the footplate that it was able to pick out only serious enthusiasts . |
| 2 | The RSPCA has received so many calls for advice on ostrich farming that its now drawn up guidelines to ensure they 're farmed humanely . |
| 3 | There were also many other gorgeous flowers for this beautiful actress , who has given so many theatregoers great joy by her performances over the years . |
| 4 | He gives us two kinds : salty recollections , verses and songs of the rank-and-file ( surely no previous volume from this august publisher has contained so many f-words and c-words ) ; and more elegant expressions of disillusion from the intelligentsia . |
| 5 | Left at the side of the rutted washboard that has claimed so many victims , it was a poignant reminder that the desert takes a dim view of those who treat it with such disdain . |
| 6 | Top-seed Jim Courier and fourth-ranked Boris Becker managed to avoid the plague which has claimed so many of their rivals , including two-time defending champion Stefan Edberg . |
| 7 | Top-seed Jim Courier and fourth-ranked Boris Becker managed to avoid the plague which has claimed so many of their rivals , including two-time defending champion Stefan Edberg . |
| 8 | His has digested well his disappointments this summer because he draws confidence from the knowledge that he has enjoyed so many wonderful moments that he is quite capable of flowering again . |
| 9 | Brough , who has won as many awards as he rode winners in his national hunt career , writes so delightfully because he cares , because he sees sport as a writer and also as a fan . |
| 10 | We know , then , that he can play a little — after all , nobody has won as many tour events in a year since Bob Tway in 1986 — but we did n't know he could make an audience laugh , or that he had such an offbeat approach to the game . |
| 11 | BUILDER Les Jones has won so many awards for the quality of his work that he could justify a trophy room in his show house . |
| 12 | Easthope has his own version of the myth of catastrophe that has possessed so many critics and theorists . |
| 13 | Constable Alan Jeffreys , who works in the Community Involvement Department , said : ‘ He has met as many people in as many cities as possible who have some involvement in public safety . |
| 14 | Our own century has seen so many movements against the conflation of scientific and religious language that we may , on purely philosophical criteria , judge him to have been misguided . |
| 15 | They follow the profession of shepherds , which has spawned so many prophets , for it is a contemplative , philosophical and benign occupation . |
| 16 | He also has severe epilepsy and indeed has suffered as many as seven attacks in one day . |
| 17 | She regrets she has missed so many lessons . |
| 18 | There were occasions when someone did a large number , and they would bring the job-sheet round and show the others and say ‘ She has done so many , you also must . ’ |
| 19 | Rarely in Rover 's history has there been a time when it has done so many things so well as now . |
| 20 | In Romania , the government led by the reform communists who overthrew the dictatorship of Ceausescu has made so many mistakes that it may get a bad surprise in the parliamentary and presidential elections on May 20th . |
| 21 | I thought that he would explain why , although he legitimately supports the cause of human rights of the Sikh people , he has made so many abusive remarks about Afro-Caribbean and West Indian people in the past , especially in an interview in the Tatler in 1989 . |
| 22 | ‘ He has to put his proposals to the parties now , because he has made so many public comments about them that he has no other choice , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Shares in Thames slipped on fears that the company may not be able to shake off the jinx which has dogged so many American acquisitions by British foragers . |
| 24 | An excess of nutrition has produced as many great fighters as hunger or poverty ever did . |
| 25 | The truth is that gluttony has produced as many world champions and outstanding contenders . |
| 26 | Scott was in fact a poet of considerable skill himself a founding father , no less , of Canada 's emerging poetry movement , and the doyen of poetry in Montreal , which has produced so many excellent poets . |
| 27 | But that was in 1909 and she has had so many successors that the device now sticks out like a sore thumb and must be used only with the greatest care and deftness of touch . |
| 28 | The research findings will totally update the previous Corpus of Knowledge research which has had so many applications both for the industry nad educators since it was first produced in the late 1970s . |
| 29 | He says that his Tarantula has had too many babies . |
| 30 | The Club started some time ago and has had as many as thirty members in the past but now numbers have dwindled to fifteen . |