Example sentences of "has [verb] many [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intrepid lady traveller Celia Fiennes had a near miss when her horse was nearly sucked into a dyke near Ely in 1698 ; and in the same year she took care to avoid Martin Mere in Lancashire , ‘ that as the proverb sayes has parted many a man and his mare indeed ’ . |
| 2 | In many cities the names are still interchangeable , a fact that has given many a visitor a mystified look . |
| 3 | The Empire foot soldiers have developed a very effective method of fighting which has won many a battle : the detachment system . |
| 4 | The large Lichtenstein Palace ( 2/258 ) of 1791 opposite the Church of St Nicholas has seen many a change of political fortune . |
| 5 | Although the romance has powered many a writer , notably Stevenson , some latter-day Scots take the harder , colder view of the pretender — such as the novelist and poet Iain Crichton-Smith , who , in his novel The Dream , has one of his characters muse , ‘ He was an evil ghost who had drifted into the Highlands , like some kind of vaporous poison , with his powdered hair and his boyish rapacity for adventure , intoxicated by the new air , the mountains , the lochs , the heather , and by his selfish opportunism he had brought tragedy on the Highlands . |
| 6 | This idea has raised many an eyebrow , especially during our modern age , yet in 1983 the World Health Organisation launched a ten-year study into herbal remedies . |
| 7 | SOMEONE was only saying the other day in the Red Lion that the demon drink is a killer and has reduced many a man 's life to misery . |
| 8 | In affluent Australia it is at least highly inconvenient , and has driven many a farmer into bankruptcy . |
| 9 | Nor is it only in science where problems arise ; Dewey 's assumptions in politics , philosophy , economics , and religion , are typically western/racist/capitalist/Christian ; and his division of the arts into " Fine " and " Applied " has caused many a pottery teacher to gnash his teeth . |
| 10 | It has survived many a crisis and witnessed many turbulent conflicts but today revels in simple pleasures and peaceful serenity . |
| 11 | Then disaster struck for the second time when he pulled a tendon in his left leg , an injury that has ended many a greyhound 's racing career . |