Example sentences of "[noun sg] has [verb] many " in BNC.
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| 31 | That investment has created many well-paid and well-founded jobs for our people . |
| 32 | Since the mid 1980s , increased public awareness of healthy eating has made many of us rethink our diets . |
| 33 | Because they are highly-trained professionals , prompt action has saved many innocent lives and accounted for terrorist gunmen engaged in the act of indiscriminate killing . |
| 34 | Although the Club has had many friends over the years his contribution would be difficult to equal . |
| 35 | Likening God to a shepherd has made many people assume that the point of the metaphor was to emphasize the sheep-like quality of people — that they have no mind of their own , that they are there to be told what to do and treated like sheep . |
| 36 | The belated heatwave has left many of them still itching — from insect bites . |
| 37 | Following the identification of these sites , further work has suggested many reasons for their disappearance . |
| 38 | This approach seems to be well adapted to modelling DNA oligomers since earlier work has shown many successful correlations with experimental data . |
| 39 | The 1983 Act has invalidated many of the previous criticisms about the lack of complete independence from the executive . |
| 40 | This lady has spent many years studying the life of the people who lived in these parts in former times . ’ |
| 41 | The village hall has seen many activities , including Fur and Feather Whist Drives at Christmas , when the prizes were often brought very much alive in sacks ! |
| 42 | Old rednose has had many things said and written about him . |
| 43 | He maintained he had never received replies to letters or acknowledgement of seeds but the dispatch of the eighth edition of the Dictionary ( April 1768 ) awaited direction and then , with an unusually personal note , he excuses himself , ‘ … having had the misfortune to dislocate the ankelbone of my leg above a year and a half since gone … confinement and want of usual exercise has brought many maladies upon me , but I am in hope of proper remedies to prolong life a little longer . ’ |
| 44 | This form of specialisation is attractive to potential clients , particularly where the executive search consultant has undertaken many assignments successfully and has a functional discipline that works across a diversity of industries . |
| 45 | In using a symbolic device , such as a pointing gesture , to communicate with another person about something — for example , an object — it is clear that the child has learned many of the social skills necessary for linguistic communication . |
| 46 | That uncomfortable question has faced many investors . |
| 47 | This inn has seen many interesting gatherings through the years . |
| 48 | The expansion of the Wytch Farm site in Dorset has aroused considerable anxiety from local people and conservation interests , and the Dorset County Council has imposed many hundreds of planning conditions on the developers as a result . |
| 49 | The heavy dependence on foreign technical assistance has had many disadvantages . |
| 50 | For example , greater capital mobility has permitted many governments , for good or ill , to initiate development projects that previously had been starved by capital shortage and has helped raise the levels of ambition for future competitiveness and importance on the world stage . |
| 51 | Traditionally the faculty has drawn many of its students from those who are proceeding to the ministry . |
| 52 | Britain has won third place in the arms-sales league table — behind the US and the Soviet Union — partly because the US Zionist lobby has prevented many sales to Arab states from Washington , which has forced the Arabs to go elsewhere . |
| 53 | As proof of its usefulness , the trap has caught many species which have never been observed in the garden . |
| 54 | To date the site has yielded many significant finds , including many well-preserved architectural remains , hundreds of inscriptions and other artifacts , and unusual quantities of splendid sculpture from the Graeco-Roman period . |
| 55 | The lower part of the iris of the eye reflects a brilliant green colour which the author has tried many times to capture on film , without success . |
| 56 | At his home in Brisbane , the Author has spent many enjoyable hours discussing the part that George Walker had played in helicopter design . |
| 57 | For a long time the type remained quite insignificant , but in recent years the increasing attention has added many new varieties , and a few miniature standards are also now available . |
| 58 | Darlington Railway Museum has provided props for a platform waiting room , and Huworth Theatre Group has supplied many of the costumes . |
| 59 | But monism has had many other manifestations : in the philosophy of Croce , in the one-form-one-meaning postulate of pretransformational linguistics , and not least , in some authors ' own sense of the artistic integrity and inviolability of their work ; in Tolstoy 's words : " This indeed is one of the significant facts about a true work of art — that its content in its entirety can be expressed only by itself . " |
| 60 | This new tool has spurred many studies of acidification , and is being applied to other issues such as runaway algal growth and climate change . |