Example sentences of "[is] [verb] many [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 This may be necessary even if the industry is situated many miles from the site .
2 But the family moved out in 1949 to be replaced by caretaker Albert Edwards who 's seen many residents .
3 This signal is amplified many times and used to drive a pen recorder which traces out a wave form plotting voltage against time .
4 Following Axelrod and Hamilton 's pioneering work , many authors have sought to understand which strategies do best when the game is played many times between players who remember past encounters .
5 Liz , a busy working mother of three , is pictured with promotions executive , Elizabeth Ollier , who is expecting many friends to join in the family celebrations .
6 He 's refused many times to do another Fawlty Towers . ’
7 In a political campaign , television exposure is magnified many times , so the projection of the image has to be co-ordinated , consistent and continuous .
8 People in London and Stockholm may get better suntans , but in Africa the likelihood of drought and famine is magnified many times ; and , as icecaps melt , the sea level will rise , flooding many low-lying areas .
9 The bridge closure is affecting many businesses .
10 The report ended enigmatically : ‘ a potential problem exists … it is clear that air pollution , particularly in the form of acidic deposition , is affecting many aspects of forest ecosystems in Britain and there is an obvious need for continued detailed monitoring . ’
11 Surprising though it may seem , although it is now well established that this is a serious problem with gliding , it is almost unknown in power flying circles or in the Air Force and it is taking many years to convince authorities .
12 ‘ After all one of the things I have done , and been criticised for doing , is making many changes in style to see what works .
13 Intensive training is making many activists a trifle monosyllabic .
14 The current trend is to regard many issues of statutory interpretation as questions of law , or mixed law and fact .
15 Reports come from Sudan , where the harshness of nature is compounded by man 's inhumanity to man — or rather to women and children ; and from Zimbabwe , where drought is putting many lives at risk , especially , as usual , those of young children .
16 The pattern is repeated many times over .
17 But it is often forgotten that even less physical sports such as bowls , and even snooker , where the same movement is repeated many times , can cause problems , too .
18 No common standards for design can exist , with the result that the learning and selection process is repeated many times with differing levels of success and understanding .
19 When the product is released many times to different clients , specific ‘ issues ’ act as a cross-reference delineating the relationship between the product and the client .
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