Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had n't been , I should have made many more mistakes than I did and been more unhappy than I was . |
| 2 | If the spontaneous origin of life turned out to be a probable enough event to have occurred during the few man-decades in which chemists have done their experiments , then life should have arisen many times on Earth , and many times on planets within radio range of Earth . |
| 3 | This paper should have suggested many lines of worthwhile investigation , and observations of real populations on the shore will undoubtedly throw up others , but it may be helpful to list some topics here . |
| 4 | The social workers commented that in this very ‘ stuck ’ situation something had to give to get any movement ; it was necessary to encourage the daughter to take the independence she should have had many years ago . |
| 5 | The expression on her face read my last remark as no more than a condescending gesture of patient sympathy such as she must have met many times before . |
| 6 | Brand new — in first class condition it must have cost many times that to make , being in heavy tin and having a lid with collapsible handle that turned it into a frying pan . |
| 7 | They must have endured many hardships to keep going out here . ’ |
| 8 | It must have sent many poultry people away to think more deeply about their future and the industry they labour in . |
| 9 | In those days I think I must have regarded many of the people dotted about my landscape more as bushes than as the human beings I now see them to have been : some dull and uninteresting like laurel bushes ; some like lavender sweetly scented ; some thorny , to be avoided ; and then rose bushes , gooseberry bushes , fuchsia bushes — but all just part of the scenery , and I withdrawn from them into my dreams . |
| 10 | John Urquhart 's article ‘ Polonium : Windscale 's most lethal legacy ’ ( 31 March , p 883 ) must have given many of its readers the impression that polonium is an abnormal constituent of man 's environment and with an impact that is therefore unpredictable . |
| 11 | She must have seen many similar noses in Rosenberg 's neighbourhood , but how she felt about the similarity has not been recorded . |
| 12 | So it 's quite an interesting , whatever you think about Woodrow Wilson in the First World War is quite a interesting book , in drawing a character study of the kind of person who Freud must have seen many times in his practice . |
| 13 | This was strong language , and must have swayed many who would have liked to uphold the religious tradition of burying the body whole to await resurrection . |
| 14 | To be a nation , said Ernest Renan , one of its great modern theorists , the individuals who make it up must have forgotten many things . |
| 15 | In the words of the religious of Shulbrede , ‘ the last wonderful pestilence ’ must have carried many men away . |
| 16 | Then I realized he must have known many bisexuals before me , and many homosexuals too . |
| 17 | The radical change from the romantic picturesqueness of the Elizabethan manor house to the measured symmetry of South Luffenham Hall must have upset many of the more traditional locals , for this house would have looked daringly modern when it was built . |
| 18 | Despite her handicaps Helen was an attractive , intelligent woman , and must have had many suitors . |
| 19 | Y you must have had many more than forty five |
| 20 | ‘ Your father must have had many acquaintances in business and in his council work , but did he have any close friends ? ’ |
| 21 | Richard and his Brabançons carried out this task with an efficiency which must have shattered many observers accustomed to a more leisurely way of doing things . |
| 22 | They were upholstered in Johnston 's grey moquette with a green and black mesh pattern , of which the UndergrounD Group must have purchased many miles in its time ( also used at Bristol , Glasgow and no doubt many other places ) . |
| 23 | In conclusion , it is clear that from this examination of the state of weaponry and warfare throughout the reign of Barbarossa , and given that he lived to the age of 70 , he must have experienced many of the gradual changes and improvements in arms and armour that occurred during the twelfth century . |
| 24 | The prospect of a pension must have attracted many men into a profession in which prestige was low , the pay not particularly good , and discipline strict . |
| 25 | The fresh toned singing of such favourites as Alouette , A-roving and the Skye Boat Song must have taken many of the audience back to their own school days . |
| 26 | The spectacle of the principal apologist for Official Nationality biting the hand that fed him must have convinced many doubters that the regime which Alexander II had inherited was intolerable . |
| 27 | Similarities to chimpanzees must have included many expressions of emotionality and emotional control , complex communication , and vegetarianism combined with some hunting for meat organized among young males . |
| 28 | Mrs Maugham was a great shopper in large department stores , and she could not resist their sillier notions ; if anyone had accused her of extravagance , she would have roundly rebuffed the accusation as fantastic and perverse , and yet she must have spent many useless pounds in her pursuit of useful acquisitions Similarly , she always maintained that she hated clutter-clutter , implying , in her tone , the dense decorative drawing-room knick-knacks of Victorian England and yet clutter reigned in all her rooms . |
| 29 | As for the revealing of ‘ new unattainable vistas ’ , the problem there — as Tolkien must have thought many times-was that in The Lord of the Rings Middle-earth was already old , with a vast weight of history behind it . |
| 30 | Destined to take over his father 's cattle station , he quickly defected and headed for Point Cook — the RAAF " Cranwell " — but not before several obstacles , which might have deterred many a lesser lad , had been overcome . |