Example sentences of "[be] [verb] many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In answer to charge 4 that he had treated Royan without taking a proper history or examination or consulting his general practitioner , Dr Mumby said he took the clinical history in the form of a questionnaire which patients filled out in advance but he rarely examined patients because they had usually been examined many times elsewhere and because taking a history by questionnaire was an established technique of clinical ecology . |
| 2 | Both individually and collectively we are given many opportunities to achieve that part of the Association 's Dedication that announces ‘ We shall remember them . ’ |
| 3 | The Thirties Society has tried to counteract the brewers ' failure to understand the potential assets represented by their 20th century buildings , but since so few pubs are listed many cases escape our notice . |
| 4 | erm Nonetheless , while we want to carry on supporting that , we 've also got to think , as Jack said , erm of as we enter the next century what is going to be right for our children , and we know that in many ways we have failed them and we know that we are producing many children who have n't had the training and the education that 's going to be necessary for us to be erm economically competent in the future , so we 've got to look at the whole of our educational provision , and frankly I think opting out was erm a sort of unnecessary blip on all of this that is n't really terribly important in the whole issue of how the children in this country should be educated . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Dieulafoy 's disease has been given many names , including ‘ calibre persistent artery of the stomach ’ , ‘ cirsoid aneurysm ’ , ‘ gastric arteriosclerosis ’ , and ‘ peptic ulcer of peculiar location ’ . |
| 7 | Anyone looking at Community legal texts can not help being struck by the large quantity of them and , although the European Communities are still a relatively youthful organization , a lot of those texts have already been amended many times over . |
| 8 | Over the mince pies and wine we learned that the Bala band had been formed many years before and had faithful musicians and followers . |
| 9 | Beveridge 's scheme was not , as has been stressed many times , revolutionary . |
| 10 | As they sort weeds from flowers , compare leaves for size and texture and observe symmetries , collect fruits , dig holes for plants and bulbs and arrange stakes and poles , children are absorbing many ideas of spatial order and relationships . |
| 11 | The fact that NTS have deliberately cut publicity about Ben Lawers is not new and has been reported many times . |
| 12 | Deficits in visual function following subcortical visual system lesions have been reported many times but it is difficult to interpret them . |
| 13 | Steven , you may not realize it , but you are gaining many advantages by marrying a mature woman . |
| 14 | They 'd been re-used many times , titles and references and hasty notes making it difficult to see any sign of what the current contents might be . |
| 15 | The companies are keeping many details of their projects a secret while rushing to be first on the screen . |
| 16 | A post mortem showed 80year-old Mr Goult , known as ‘ Old Jack ’ , had been stabbed many times in the chest at his home in Woolfall Heath Avenue , Huyton , Liverpool . |
| 17 | Again , it is not my intention here to review the variations and criticisms in detail this has been done many times elsewhere . |
| 18 | This approach would have involved solving problems and duplicating work which in all probability had been done many times before in other organizations . |
| 19 | But erm yeah , it 's , it 's er good for what it is , but I think this has been done many times before and er I sh would think that everybody 's seen some just slightly better than this , but it 's quite a nice er sunset . |
| 20 | The Earth has been visited many times in its history , but it 's all been covered up . |
| 21 | It has been said many times that the word ‘ conviction ’ is ambiguous and it has sometimes been construed in a statutory context as referring to nothing more than a finding of guilt . |
| 22 | As has been said many times ( certainly by me ) , it is the easiest thing in the world to write a review of an unimportant book . |
| 23 | In agreement with Lapworth , it was shown that the uppermost rocks had been pushed many miles over the lower ones along a low-angled thrust fault . |
| 24 | It has been seen many times since then , and many of the Baskervilles have died in strange and terrible ways . |
| 25 | The idea , one that 's been adopted many times since , was to ‘ camouflage ’ the door handle so it did n't interfere with the body lines . |
| 26 | The hypothesis of the asylum founders , that cure could be achieved through placement in a segregated and controlled environment , had been nullified many years before . |
| 27 | Yes , whilst the arrangements for holidays in this brochure are made many months in advance , changes may unfortunately be necessary . |
| 28 | ‘ We talked about football but all he wanted to talk about was sex , ’ she said , before adding , ‘ I hear he 's not been scoring many goals recently and that 's why he left Arsenal , but all I can tell you is he certainly scored a hat-trick with me that night . ’ |
| 29 | ( I have been told many times by participants in such workshops that they have felt it necessary to conceal from their colleagues where they were going ! ) |
| 30 | Claims for compensation are forcing many employers to take RSI seriously , at last , and to tackle the root causes in the workplace . |