Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] [verb] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost all the work was done by manual labour alone and the order which Wade sent to Edinburgh Castle in 1726 for ‘ 94 shovells , 82 pickaxes , 42 spades , 3 iron crows ’ is typical and could have been repeated many times over . |
| 2 | An offending tree may have been planted many years ago by a previous owner . |
| 3 | Paradoxically , however , although over the years you may have been contributing many thousands of pounds to the Inland Revenue , in practice you may have had very little direct contact with the tax system . |
| 4 | Indeed , the documents themselves could have been transcribed many times through the ages . |
| 5 | A serpentine commode , the central section of which pulled out as a silver table , and a Russian mirror of the 1790s supported on twisting ormolu snakes could have been sold many times over . |
| 6 | You could say it should have been allowed many more to establish itself , but it was not a notable success . |
| 7 | Of course , gardens have long been maintained in conjunction with historic houses ; what is new is the desire to rescue and restore gardens that may have been abandoned many years ago , as attractions in their own right . |