Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] [prep] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | 10% of all vehicles in New Zealand are NGVs , while US legislation enforcing the adoption of cleaner alternative fuels has resulted in many government departments converting their fleets to run on natural gas . |
| 2 | The development of these compounds has arisen from many studies of the structure and function of biological membranes . |
| 3 | The survival of the Honours of Scotland over the centuries has depended on many loyal Scots , some known but just as many unknown . |
| 4 | Over the last two centuries , the relationship between the press and the political parties has gone through many changes . |
| 5 | Conceptually , what is offered is little more than an automated ‘ sieve mapping ’ that land-use planners have used for many years , but the whole procedure is speeded up by many orders of magnitude using GIS software . |
| 6 | Egglishaw et al. ( 1987 ) , for example , have shown that salmon catches have declined in many Scottish streams and rivers which drain afforested catchments , and Ormerod et al. ( 1987 ) have discussed the reduction in diversity that occurs in the invertebrate faunas of streams in Wales after afforestation . |
| 7 | Research workers have tried for many years to culture mycobacteria from tissue affected by Crohn 's disease , although generally without success . |
| 8 | All Governments have failed in many respects in not giving to the British Council and the BBC World Service the resources that they merit . |
| 9 | Economists have worked with many different models , each marked with one form or another of the competitive label . |
| 10 | Regional officers had lived for many years with successive waves of moral outrage about the scandalous conditions within the asylums . |
| 11 | Both also operated as armies had done for many previous centuries by finding their supplies from the land as they moved about . |
| 12 | Further study is necessarily being completed ; but the evidence of linkage between the simultaneous appearance of climatic phenomena in Kansas , Chad , Bihar and in the south — eastern Pacific Ocean suggests what all geographers have known for many years — that the globe works as one complete system , one vast interactive machine , and that the divisions man has forced upon it are no more than crudely artificial devices for our own intellectual convenience . |
| 13 | In recent years the growth of ‘ consumerism ’ or consumer protection lobbies has led to many organizations taking action to improve the service to the customer after the sale has been concluded . |
| 14 | Kooijmans said that international bodies had agreed on many rules , but the worldwide campaign against torture had failed to stop it . |
| 15 | Plastics have arrived in many varieties within one generation , and few people outside the business really appreciate the difference between polyethylene and polypropylene , let alone the many varieties of polyethylene itself . |
| 16 | Individual partners have contributed in many ways , stressing the point that the school can identify and seek response to needs within a clearly agreed framework . |
| 17 | European astronomers have collaborated for many years through the European Space Agency , which provides some space-science programme . |
| 18 | The absence of regulatory constraints has resulted in many financial firms in the eurobond market being multiproduct ( financial conglomerates ) . |
| 19 | Creating new export possibilities by establishing an EPZ in which exporting-only enterprises can be set up free of most local laws has appealed to many developing countries from the 1970s onwards . |
| 20 | Over the years its portals have opened to many illustrious guests ranging from revered and holy Popes to the US General , Mark Clark . |
| 21 | Davis 's claims have met with many objections . |
| 22 | Blackpool 's trams have featured in many celebrations during their one hundred years , and often made news themselves . |
| 23 | Rules allowing farmers to cut set-aside fields to control weeds have resulted in many nests being ploughed up or crushed by machinery . |
| 24 | I and the Secretary of State are worried about the notices to quit that some brewers have issued to many of their tenants . |
| 25 | The present psychiatric services have to work with many large old hospitals that were built during the nineteenth century as lunatic asylums . |
| 26 | For example , in recent years , interest in Dart Valley Railway Plc shares has come from many quarters , most notably the Australian financial magnate Sir Ron Brierley , who sold his holding recently . |
| 27 | However , conversion of more modest manufacturing and storage buildings into individual dwellings has occurred over many years — possibly even centuries . |
| 28 | The need for more prisons has appeared in many jurisdictions over the last fifteen years . |
| 29 | These practices had spread to many families outside the ruling class . |