Example sentences of "but it [vb past] many " in BNC.

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1 But it seemed many of the biggest news stories came from the world of industry , most notably , the miners ' strike .
2 So when Fleischmann and Pons announced test-tube fusion as a source of energy — which was the ‘ angle ’ that the media took up and portrayed it as a clean source — the news that they apparently saw tritium as a fusion product was lost on most media , but it made many scientists concerned and others excited .
3 But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense .
4 In many ways the movement was a distant bogey but it worried many landowners whose rent rolls were hit by the heavy load of poor rates , now a quarterly impost almost everywhere .
5 Boenninghausen had previously produced a repertory but it contained many more remedies under each heading than Kent 's repertory , which is easier to use .
6 This took the place of a pre-release course ( which would be impossible to plan in an institution where some men were so far away from release and others might be released on parole licence at very short notice ) but it covered many of the same topics .
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