Example sentences of "it be many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along the road leading to it were many altars and shrines and there are also remains which could belong to a theatre . |
| 2 | So it 's many inputs to one answer . |
| 3 | Measuring 30 centimetres or so across , it is many times bigger than the largest known trilobite and its armour no longer shows any signs of segmentation . |
| 4 | It is many things — the lethargy of the travel , and all that space . |
| 5 | The entire loft is a matted tangle of sticks and twigs brought in by the jackdaws over God knows how many centuries ; in parts it is many metres deep . |
| 6 | ‘ It is — it is many months since my last situation , and … and I have had to eke out my remaining funds . |
| 7 | IT IS many years since I looked at Punch for anything except the advertisements . |
| 8 | It is many years since I last heard VW 's restless setting of words taken from Chapter I of Ezekiel , which in context form a strangely appropriate backdrop to the work 's actual inspiration , A Vision of Aeroplanes . |
| 9 | In fact , the United Kingdom has never had , in the course of this century , a simple two-party system and it is many years since the party eventually forming government secured a majority of primary votes cast , let alone the votes of a majority of electors . |
| 10 | It fills him with strange satisfaction to think that while the great illumination of the Market Square is quite invisible from this point , the little lamps of Iron Green can be seen glowing through a gap beyond Albert Road , It is many years now since he has visited the lower end of Odborough , for his legs will not carry him up and down the hill , and he growls like a dog if anyone suggests a car . |
| 11 | It is many years since the town last saw a train , but the group believes that for about £1m. the railway could once again link Guisborough with the rest of the country via the Esk Valley line from Middlesbrough to Whitby . |
| 12 | It is many years since my last confession and I confess in the face of God and in the hope of his divine mercy at the imminent approach of death . ’ |
| 13 | What 's left of it is many yards under water now . |
| 14 | The first BREL/GEC Class 90 , an updated version of the Class 87 Bo-Bo , emerged from Crewe in mid-1988 , but it was many months before the state of the art electronics were mastered . |
| 15 | Incidentally , it was many months before the whole truth was discovered and much proof was derived from the flight data recorder . |
| 16 | Whilst it was many centuries before flint sickles were replaced with iron scythes and reap hooks , it was only a few more years before reapers , when self binders and then combines were introduced . |
| 17 | It was many weeks before their mother learnt where they were . |
| 18 | So it was many weeks before Ellie dared try the key in the lock . |
| 19 | It was many weeks before she regained her self-esteem . |
| 20 | It was many years later that my foreboding dream came true . |
| 21 | The story of the lift does not end here , for it was many years before it was finally cut up and sold for scrap . |
| 22 | It was many years since Selwyn 's wife had persuaded him that it was not good manners to pick his teeth in company , but his lips still made the motions of mouthing a toothpick . |
| 23 | Labels were shifted about , the Higher School Certificate became the General Certificate of Education at Advanced Level , but it was many years before new pressures distorted the ancient simplicities . |
| 24 | It was many years before the collection agencies and the record companies trusted each other . |
| 25 | Some readers may remember attending the building when it was St Mary 's Junior School , indeed many nostalgic , even misty-eyed visits are made to the building by people who remember the school as it was many years ago . |
| 26 | These five cars received the least modifications of any of the South Metropolitan fleet and in fact it was many years before they were even repainted , running in deep chocolate and ivory , with only the fleet numbers and badges altered . |
| 27 | Crocheted antimacassars graced the backs of all the chairs although it was many years since a gentleman with pomade on his hair had sat in one of them . |
| 28 | It was many years since the Deputy Under Secretary had taken such a holiday ; his previous inclination would have been — towards fishing the west country salmon rivers or stalking the Scottish moors . |
| 29 | It was many years since the assassin 's eyes had taken the pleasure they did now , seeing him . |
| 30 | So it was many years later , in 1930 , that a writer of light-hearted detective stories called Anthony Berkeley proclaimed that the art should change from puzzles about time , place and opportunity into puzzles about motive and character , and produced a book , The Second Shot , written from the murderer 's point of view . |