Example sentences of "[vb pp] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As proof of its usefulness , the trap has caught many species which have never been observed in the garden . |
| 2 | in the early 1970s a gill-net fishery developed in the Gulf of California for the totoaba fish , and the nets also caught many vaquita ( also known as cochito ) . |
| 3 | The fact that NTS have deliberately cut publicity about Ben Lawers is not new and has been reported many times . |
| 4 | Deficits in visual function following subcortical visual system lesions have been reported many times but it is difficult to interpret them . |
| 5 | Link correspondent has reported many employees ' weddings in the past , but now she has become a bride herself . |
| 6 | Automatic re-dialling facilities , which try again and again until clear line is available , have simplified many services , including transmission of facsimiles . |
| 7 | Beveridge 's scheme was not , as has been stressed many times , revolutionary . |
| 8 | From his innovations have come many developments opening the way for similar independently minded choreographers . |
| 9 | Even the ruined library still contained many texts which were witnesses to a local tradition of artistic skill , showing a consuming interest in miraculous happenings and that curious mixture of vernacular and Latin literacy which were all characteristic of late Anglo-Saxon culture . |
| 10 | Europe , of course , still contained many nations which had no state to express , far less to guarantee , their political existence ; the Poles were the glaring example . |
| 11 | I have mated many times with Elsbeth . |
| 12 | To be a nation , said Ernest Renan , one of its great modern theorists , the individuals who make it up must have forgotten many things . |
| 13 | Since early days , the castle has been laid waste and rebuilt many times before being inherited by the great benefactress , Lady Anne Clifford , who restored it in 1660 . |
| 14 | It has claimed many converts . |
| 15 | He had designed many buildings himself and had employed architects in subordinate capacity , such as Matthew Digby Wyatt at Paddington Station . |
| 16 | " The Meeting having considered many Complaints from Caddelton and the other principle Drovers … from the want of a proper Fank for Cattle near the ferry place of Portaskaig , and Considering also that sixty or Eighty acres at least of some muir land near the Port will be necessary … appoint a Committee to draw up an application to Shawfield , praying he may allot and Inclose a piece of ground . " |
| 17 | He says that he had considered many courses of action , this was one which he took on the spur of the moment . |
| 18 | But all this is contained in a framework which , in its clarity and essential simplicity , has reminded many commentators of Barth 's passionate fondness for Mozart . |
| 19 | They acquired a reputation for ferocity and committed many atrocities . |
| 20 | In 1356 a commission of oyer et terminer for the counties of Gloucester and Hereford was issued to Richard of Willoughby and five other judges , on information that John Gayner of St Briavels and a large number of others , banded together by oath , had committed many trespasses against vert and venison in the Forest of Dean , assaulted the foresters , and : |
| 21 | I have crossed deserts , visited fabulous cities , and in my journeys I have amassed many secrets and mysteries ! ’ |
| 22 | But while many children enter the school having already enjoyed many hours of " pretend " play ; there are some whose experience of such play is very limited , who find it very difficult to differentiate between being in and out of role . |
| 23 | She herself did not continue scientific work but raised a family of four and has enjoyed many interests , though less actively since a stroke three years ago . |
| 24 | This is a favourite recipe from a friend of mine ; a quick and delicious snack which I 've enjoyed many times . |
| 25 | She has enjoyed many courses , including Coburg last year . |
| 26 | Wrangham 's ( 1975 , 1977 ) research at the Gombe Stream reserve , a locality originally made famous by the pioneering efforts of Jane Goodall on the chimpanzee , has clarified many mysteries presented by contrasts between the Gombe findings and those of Japanese workers in the Mahali Mountains elsewhere in Tanzania . |
| 27 | With its broad and open frontiers , Russia is a country that has been invaded and occupied many times by outside powers . |
| 28 | This has remained for five generations in the same family , and roughly speaking with headquarters on the same site , whereas Smith 's ownership has passed through several families and occupied many addresses before settling in 1921 on 57–61 St Vincent Street . |
| 29 | In the words of the religious of Shulbrede , ‘ the last wonderful pestilence ’ must have carried many men away . |
| 30 | Richard and his Brabançons carried out this task with an efficiency which must have shattered many observers accustomed to a more leisurely way of doing things . |