Example sentences of "[vb pp] on many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since its inception , this procedure has been fiercely attacked on many occasions , including The Black Report ( Townsend and Davidson , 1982 ) and The Health Divide ( Whitehead , 1987 ) for failing to take account of morbidity and of social deprivation ( see Mays and Bevan , 1987 , for a review of the vast literature generated by the debate on the use of the RAWP formula ) . |
| 2 | It must have been rebuilt on many occasions , the present building and adjoining mill house dating from around 1726 . |
| 3 | I have been approached on many levels , from stripograms in the office to packages arriving at reception with worms and a message inside threatening even worse if I did n't see the band ( I did n't ) . |
| 4 | George Hann says that in the years he has known about the business he has been approached on many occasions by people who ‘ come over as being very convincing but who turned out not to be genuine . |
| 5 | Heavy congestion was reported on many motorways . |
| 6 | A comment of interest , when subscriptions to pay for the bell were not forthcoming appears in the Church magazine : " This is a matter which the Non-conformist might reasonably be expected to support , a fine peal of bells is something for all inhabitants of Halling to be proud of , they are rung on many occasions , which have nothing to do with church services " . |
| 7 | That Minton had responded on many levels is evident not only from his paintings but also from an illustrated article which he wrote for Vogue . |
| 8 | ‘ But there again , it is written on many tombstones … |
| 9 | Patriarchal religion is built on many millennia of repressed fear of the power of female bodily processes . |
| 10 | President Carlos Salinas de Gortari has said on many occasions , in his campaign for a free-trade agreement , that if Mexico can not send its products to the United States , it will send its people instead . |
| 11 | Chair can I make a suggestion quite clearly a large number of people have made some very good and valid recommendations or suggestions to you and the board this evening and you 've said on many occasions this evening the board will obviously go away discuss those and take a view on the particular ideas . |
| 12 | As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has said on many occasions in the House , the Department is more than happy to receive representations from the hon. Gentleman or anyone else about specific cases of blacklisting . |
| 13 | Launching the scheme , Chief Executive Ralph Hodge commented : ‘ As I have said on many occasions , the Quality Improvement Process must be central to the way we manage C&P and meet the many challenges which lie ahead . |
| 14 | The situation on the farm was an ever-changing one for the wife and examples of these changes were seen on many holdings . |
| 15 | It lacks the strong ribbing seen on many brachiopods . |
| 16 | If homoeopathy is such an individual way of treating you — for example , one person with influenza may have quite a different medicine from another person with it — what is the value of homoeopathic remedies now seen on many chemists ' shelves which could be used by people who are not aware that the choice of a remedy has to be selected according to a number of factors , not just by a simple set of symptoms ? |
| 17 | From then on until the closure years , both man and dog were seen on many occasions from Swithland signal box and the platform at Rothley Station . |
| 18 | ‘ One universal name is imposed on many things , for their similitude in some quality . ’ |
| 19 | I repeat that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister made the position absolutely clear , as we have done on many occasions . |
| 20 | Kooijmans said that international bodies had agreed on many rules , but the worldwide campaign against torture had failed to stop it . |
| 21 | The 1983 and 1987 Gallup election surveys showed that voters across all parties agreed on many goals of government . |
| 22 | It was the evening of a fortnightly pay Friday , and the working people , who had spent a percentage of their earnings in the public houses , were gathered en masse in front of the railway ticket office , to purchase tickets for the ‘ stand-up carriages ’ ( carriages in which there were not seats ) , to convey them to Glasgow ; they hooted , yelled , swore , crushed , and fought like fiends , and the depraved look engraved on many faces made one shudder . |
| 23 | ‘ Once Annie has come up with a tartan design it can be used on many products such as bags and logos , not just carpets and furnishings . |
| 24 | In those days , horses were still used on many farms for ploughing and I soon found myself staggering red-faced up a furrow , furiously gripping the wooden handles , astonished at the power of the mighty beasts plodding sombrely ahead . |
| 25 | In many cases , the grade criteria of the GCSE are very similar in format to the comments and grid statements used on many profiles . |
| 26 | Indeed , during the observation period of various teaching units using computer programs we have seen the units used on many occasions in a very different fashion to that envisaged by the development team responsible for their design . |
| 27 | During the Lusaka Conference in 1970 a Soviet commentary described NATO as a ‘ collective coloniser ’ which was used on many occasions ‘ for reprisals against the liberating peoples ’ . |
| 28 | The arguments had actually been rehearsed on many occasions : |
| 29 | The sportingness and fairmindedness of those supporters has been clearly demonstrated on many occasions , particularly following their sides sad departure from the FA Cup at Bramall Lane where there was only one ‘ serious disorder ’ outside the ground — nice to know they can take defeat so graciously . |
| 30 | It must be emphasised that the IS-LM model is a theoretical construction based on many assumptions . |