Example sentences of "[pers pn] be many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am many things , señor . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been told I was many things in my life , but too hasty … |
| 3 | Kelly would understand , of course , but she was many miles away , working on location , and Shae did n't even have a contact number . |
| 4 | We know we 're many steps down the social scale from the Santis family . |
| 5 | Miller pointed out that ‘ Oranges , jesmines , capers , olives and pomegranites … are annually brought from Italy and , if skilfully managed , very few of them miscarry , notwithstanding they are many times three or four months out of the ground . ’ |
| 6 | Reports of sea serpents say they look like smooth snakes , but they are many times larger than the biggest snakes on earth : the longest seem to be about 200 metres . |
| 7 | They are many thanks , thank you . |
| 8 | He announced that he was prepared to admit that the invisible undetectable substance existed on the moon , but insisted that it was not disturbed in the way suggested by his rival but in fact was piled up on top of the mountains so that they were many times higher than they appeared through the telescope . |
| 9 | These thoughts could always be called up , as they were many years later in his attack on Churchill . |
| 10 | Along the road leading to it were many altars and shrines and there are also remains which could belong to a theatre . |
| 11 | So it 's many inputs to one answer . |
| 12 | Measuring 30 centimetres or so across , it is many times bigger than the largest known trilobite and its armour no longer shows any signs of segmentation . |
| 13 | It is many things — the lethargy of the travel , and all that space . |
| 14 | The entire loft is a matted tangle of sticks and twigs brought in by the jackdaws over God knows how many centuries ; in parts it is many metres deep . |
| 15 | ‘ It is — it is many months since my last situation , and … and I have had to eke out my remaining funds . |
| 16 | IT IS many years since I looked at Punch for anything except the advertisements . |
| 17 | It is many years since I last heard VW 's restless setting of words taken from Chapter I of Ezekiel , which in context form a strangely appropriate backdrop to the work 's actual inspiration , A Vision of Aeroplanes . |
| 18 | In fact , the United Kingdom has never had , in the course of this century , a simple two-party system and it is many years since the party eventually forming government secured a majority of primary votes cast , let alone the votes of a majority of electors . |
| 19 | It fills him with strange satisfaction to think that while the great illumination of the Market Square is quite invisible from this point , the little lamps of Iron Green can be seen glowing through a gap beyond Albert Road , It is many years now since he has visited the lower end of Odborough , for his legs will not carry him up and down the hill , and he growls like a dog if anyone suggests a car . |
| 20 | It is many years since the town last saw a train , but the group believes that for about £1m. the railway could once again link Guisborough with the rest of the country via the Esk Valley line from Middlesbrough to Whitby . |
| 21 | It is many years since my last confession and I confess in the face of God and in the hope of his divine mercy at the imminent approach of death . ’ |
| 22 | What 's left of it is many yards under water now . |
| 23 | The first BREL/GEC Class 90 , an updated version of the Class 87 Bo-Bo , emerged from Crewe in mid-1988 , but it was many months before the state of the art electronics were mastered . |
| 24 | Incidentally , it was many months before the whole truth was discovered and much proof was derived from the flight data recorder . |
| 25 | Whilst it was many centuries before flint sickles were replaced with iron scythes and reap hooks , it was only a few more years before reapers , when self binders and then combines were introduced . |
| 26 | It was many weeks before their mother learnt where they were . |
| 27 | So it was many weeks before Ellie dared try the key in the lock . |
| 28 | It was many weeks before she regained her self-esteem . |
| 29 | It was many years later that my foreboding dream came true . |
| 30 | The story of the lift does not end here , for it was many years before it was finally cut up and sold for scrap . |