Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Eventually , after the subject had been raised many times by the Inspector , the CEGB gave in and agreed to produce the figures ‘ without prejudice , to its main argument . |
| 3 | They had been built many hundreds of years ago by the people who lived on the moor . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This approach would have involved solving problems and duplicating work which in all probability had been done many times before in other organizations . |
| 6 | Over the mince pies and wine we learned that the Bala band had been formed many years before and had faithful musicians and followers . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Aplin had been asking many questions about Putt , not only in connection with the robberies but with the rape of Anna too . |
| 10 | Although the word ‘ reckless ’ had been used many times before in the context of manslaughter , a distinctive doctrine was established in Seymour ( 1983 ) . |
| 11 | The roof was slightly unusual due to the relative heights of the eaves and the ridge , but to a structural engineer the design was sound and anyway was one that had been used many times before . |
| 12 | I was so relieved to hear this as I had been canoeing many times before and so could remain warm and dry while watching many of the younger cadets freeze to death . |
| 13 | Joe Walker was famous for his record-breaking X-15 flights and was due to become NASA 's Chief Project Pilot on the XB-70. 20207 had been carrying many millions of dollars worth of sophisticated test equipment in the forward weapons bay for NASA — all of this was lost . |
| 14 | At this time , too , he carefully examined and brilliantly settled the old quarrel concerning the metropolitan church of Britanny between Tours and Dol , which although it had been judged many times by his predecessors would never have been brought to a final settlement but for him . |
| 15 | Although this had been suggested many times before , Stuart was the first to succeed , and his work shaped the future of the extension system . |