Example sentences of "have be [adv] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't remember all the other pests in my garden , there have been so many . |
| 2 | The route has been described to death and there have been so many accounts of the leading objects , I am inclined to be silent till I reach some spots where fewer pens have essayed to give to the world their portraiture , allowing the sketches engraved to leave my mite of tribute alike to the noble natural architecture of the Isle of Caves and the art treasures in the Isle of Ionic Crosses . |
| 3 | We noted the omission of any mention of meat and asked her particularly about this , as there have been so many debates among anthropologists in recent years as to the origins of hunting and meat-eating . |
| 4 | IT SICKENS me that hit records promoting the drug Ecstasy through hidden messages in the lyrics have been allowed when there have been so many deaths from it and now the hospitalisation of Flake model Rachel Brown . |
| 5 | There have been so many narrow escapes that it 's very difficult to say which one was the closest . |
| 6 | But there have been so many of these little mistakes , you see , that we 've been obliged to have a warrant made out . ’ |
| 7 | There have been so many thefts from Venetian churches over recent years ( see p.16 ) that , without custodians , the college of priests will be forced to recommend keeping most Venetian church doors closed . |
| 8 | There have been so many taboos surrounding some kings that it has been difficult , if not impossible , to find anyone to be successor , for the taboos lead to total social isolation of the ruler . |
| 9 | There have been so many changes in education that even teachers find it hard to keep up — so professionals as well as parents will welcome the Parents ' Information Checklist , £4.50 from the Advisory Centre for Education , 1b Aberdeen Studios , 22/24 Highbury Grove , N5 2EA . |
| 10 | Besides , there have been so many opportunities for growth in countries that do not require local equity sharing that they have had little incentive to try to build businesses in those countries that do . |
| 11 | It is difficult , and possibly unwise , for one person to attempt omnicompetence in an area of the Church 's life in which there have been so many recent changes in rapid succession . |
| 12 | ‘ When I think back , knowing what I know now — and I have been so many places , and looked into the windows of other people 's lives , and I have seen so much — I still ca n't say for sure what Gittel really wanted . |
| 13 | Rarely can there have been so many upheavals in the landscape in so short a time . |
| 14 | Well er as I say the position of the Parish Council the fact that there have been so many objections are fully reported in the committee papers today . |
| 15 | There have been so many accidents on the M-40 , police have lost count of the number . |
| 16 | ‘ He has now got a new incentive at Forest where there have been so many changes . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I have been trying to get the traders out for eight years , but there have been so many obstructions . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ There have been so many plans for the place and everything seems to fall through , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Since there have been so many hermaphrodite creatures in classical sculpture , I must admit that at times here I had to double check both top and bottom . |
| 20 | There were sixteen riders that year , but there have been as many as twenty-two or sometimes only nine or ten . |
| 21 | There have been as many ways of doing this as there have been ethnographic studies done . |
| 22 | Ask a bookdealer how his trade has changed over the last twenty years , and you 'll get an answer worthy of a merchant banker : volumes have multiplied ( hardly surprising : there have been as many books published since 1960 as in all the previous history of publishing ) , margins have been squeezed ; competition has grown fiercer , and specialisation finer ; women and Japanese have become crucial forces with which to reckon . |
| 23 | I have been there many times and had many unshakeable criticisms , which now have , of course , been shaken . ’ |
| 24 | But I know that part of the country and have been there many times . |
| 25 | ( Oh , yes , and before you ask , I have been there many a time . |
| 26 | I have been there many times , both for business and for pleasure . ’ |
| 27 | That game proved to be the turning point in the club 's fortunes , and although there have been too many false dawns already in a thus far unsuccessful return , maybe last night 's victory is the break Kendall has been waiting for . |
| 28 | While some departments have attempted to adhere to this informally , there have been too many exceptions . |
| 29 | For one thing there have been too many of them already ( Ellery Queen 's Mystery Magazine in America , perhaps the best and almost the only vehicle for the crime short story , no longer looks as new Holmes tales , as I know to my cost . ) |
| 30 | And disillusionment certainly exists — there have been too many scandals involving politicians . |