Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since my own cancer , I have met or heard many cancer sufferers who appear to see ‘ God ’ as a help in their affliction . |
| 2 | Select committees have had substantial coverage , but all the evidence suggests — and this is my own impression , having served or attended many committees over the years and now seeing them on television — that , with a few minor modifications , the ways these committees work is little changed . |
| 3 | When Marsh was dumped it did not concern him that as Australian captain anything he said or did might be misconstrued or magnified many times over . |
| 4 | This , allied to the economic climate which has either led or forced many employees to retire early , means that more people than ever before can look forward to many years of active and purposeful life ahead , following their disengagement from full-time work . |
| 5 | Since early days , the castle has been laid waste and rebuilt many times before being inherited by the great benefactress , Lady Anne Clifford , who restored it in 1660 . |
| 6 | With its broad and open frontiers , Russia is a country that has been invaded and occupied many times by outside powers . |
| 7 | This has remained for five generations in the same family , and roughly speaking with headquarters on the same site , whereas Smith 's ownership has passed through several families and occupied many addresses before settling in 1921 on 57–61 St Vincent Street . |
| 8 | They acquired a reputation for ferocity and committed many atrocities . |
| 9 | Having seen and made many changes in their time , the Kings retired five years ago — though only as far as next door , and the sign above the shop still says King , maintaining the links back to 1870 and before . |
| 10 | She was a very active teenager and made many contributions to her school and community . |
| 11 | He commented : ‘ I have grown with the company and seen many changes . |
| 12 | The six Concerti on this interesting release were published in 1742 , and were rearranged and reprinted many times , the composer actually rearranging the Sixth Concerto in an edition published 33 years later , such was its popularity . |
| 13 | I mean this has been worn and washed many times for Charlotte . |
| 14 | They went on over a long period and affected many children who had been entrusted to the defendants for care and help . |
| 15 | With the options now open to couples , commitments and covenants will need to be renegotiated and re-formulated many times in the course of a lifetime as family groups move through different stages . |
| 16 | Rutherford , after working from 1890 to 1930 on radioactivity , being universally recognized for his discoveries and awarded many prizes and honorary degrees , gave as his view , ‘ There is no appreciable energy available to man through atomic disintegration . ’ |
| 17 | I have been metal detecting now for over twenty years , and in that time have owned and tested many detectors . |
| 18 | He endowed three chairs at Liverpool University and funded many scholarships . |
| 19 | But the slaughter and the destruction in central Panama City , especially in the Chorrillo area close to the Noriega Command HQ , appeared to have shocked and alienated many inhabitants . |
| 20 | Here the load of a river is mainly mud and sand which is almost all that remains of the larger stones and boulders which have bounced and trundled many kilometres down river . |