Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] been [verb] many " in BNC.

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1 Books have been called many things in their time , but not ‘ lean and muscular ’ .
2 The process of management and the functions of management have been analysed many times in various ways by different writers , who have taken the view that :
3 The pre-civilisation human family , in existence before any kind of personal care replaced the primitive laws of survival , would , by its very nature have been spared many of the divisive burdens which break up modern family life .
4 Deficits in visual function following subcortical visual system lesions have been reported many times but it is difficult to interpret them .
5 Aristotle himself believed that the arts and the sciences have been discovered many times and then lost again .
6 In the clear conditions , anglers have been spotting many of the venue 's double-figure carp but they'ree not feeding , ’ he added .
7 The new ministers soon find that there is remarkably little room for manoeuvre , and that most of the quick and easy panaceas to the intractable problems of Defence have been tried many times before .
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