Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [prep] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work of other researchers has in many different ways helped to shape our work , to influence what we have asked and to make us more sensitive to what we have heard . |
| 2 | British industry , the City of London , most of what used to be called Fleet Street , and the economic spokesmen for all the political parties have for many years spoken with one voice on this matter : what Britain required , they all said , was a large , secure home market in which it was possible to benefit from economies of scale comparable to those enjoyed by the Japanese and the Americans . |
| 3 | Field trials have for many years been concerned with finding a clone less susceptible to frost and this was initially seen as a way of upgrading some of the frost-prone vineyards of the Marne Valley which are traditionally planted with the hardier Pinot Meunier . |
| 4 | Some European and Middle Eastern countries have for many years responded to the resultant labour shortages by " importing " immigrant labour to perform relatively menial and unskilled tasks . |
| 5 | Systems effects have in many cases knock-on effects , even though they were providing care , providing new services for perhaps just 6 people . |
| 6 | The success of the Modular Course over the past 15 years has in many respects been the success of Oxford Polytechnic . |
| 7 | During wartime and the postwar era of government price control , electricity undertakings had in many cases been prevented from raising domestic tariffs to meet increased costs , and had drawn instead on their reserves and on the automatic increases paid by larger ( mainly industrial ) consumers under the coal-cost increase clause of their special tariffs . |
| 8 | Conservationists have for many years been predicting the catastrophic consequences of a major oil spill in Arctic or Antarctic seas , and in early 1989 , their worst fears were realised . |
| 9 | Although YTS has proved to be an important catalyst for change , the nature of these changes has in many ways been unexpected . |
| 10 | The disappointing results of this survey come at a time when the second WHO review of its Health for All policy concludes that ‘ the implementation of strategies to achieve those aims has in many cases slowed down ’ . |
| 11 | The norm for the duration of commercial leases has for many years been twenty-five years . |
| 12 | In that case the appellant rendering company and their predecessors had for many years carried on various offensive trades , namely blood boiling , bone boiling , fat extracting , fat melting , tallow melting and tripe boiling , without concealment , to the knowledge of the local authority and under the control of their inspectors . |
| 13 | Advisers had in many cases given guarantees that the only information that they would use in the final report would be that which could be used in a public document . |
| 14 | Those local education authorities which have begun seriously to seek a place in the curriculum of their schools for locally-used languages have in many cases to be content with providing their own in-service training on a relatively ad hoc basis . |
| 15 | Schools offering special education for visually handicapped pupils have in many cases a residential base but still accept pupils on a daily basis when this is practicable . |
| 16 | Architects have for many years been subjected to both legal and self-regulation . |
| 17 | As a result , policy and resources committee proceedings have in many authorities become either duplicates of , or substitutes for , the work of the full council and the function of policy co-ordination has shifted to the party political groups , or to the chief executive and management team , or … both' ( Alexander , 1982a , p. 91 ) . |
| 18 | Although academic psychologists have been reluctant to use this notion to cross the boundary between the normal and the abnormal , clinicians have for many years used a similar concept . |
| 19 | The delay in 10 cities had in many instances allowed more time for local coalitions to be negotiated . |
| 20 | The presence of residual pottery in stratified deposits has for many years bedevilled structural chronology , and has also affected the dating of the pottery itself . |
| 21 | Its clerks had for many years to work in ‘ dark , stuffy offices , with smoke-grimed ceilings and an atmosphere compounded of overnight gas-burning and the indefinable mouldiness of adjacent ’ bookrooms ’ ‘ . |
| 22 | Early collectors had in many cases got decretals wherever they could find them . |
| 23 | Ministers have for many years seemed to regard them as a somewhat unnecessary alternative to the roads . |
| 24 | Local authorities have for many years enjoyed a power to purchase land compulsorily in order to carry out their statutory functions relating to highways or general development . |
| 25 | They have argued that the ‘ contradictions ’ between Israel and Arab states have for many years frustrated the attempts of American strategists to construct an alliance between Israel and the more conservative Arab states . |