Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] have [vb pp] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the identification of these sites , further work has suggested many reasons for their disappearance . |
| 2 | Old rednose has had many things said and written about him . |
| 3 | This lady has spent many years studying the life of the people who lived in these parts in former times . ’ |
| 4 | This backlash has meant many dog owners having to confine their pets to their own gardens for exercise and toilet use which , of course , leads to the problem of how to dispose of the dogs ' faeces . |
| 5 | In fact , this emphasis has misled many students of price theory to understand the notion of the entrepreneur as nothing more than the locus of profit-maximizing decision-making within the firm . |
| 6 | This misconception has led many researchers in more recent years to discuss the apparent absence of evidence for members of the native population . |
| 7 | This line has had many threats of closure , and this would end a vital link to Hutton Cranswick . |
| 8 | He maintained he had never received replies to letters or acknowledgement of seeds but the dispatch of the eighth edition of the Dictionary ( April 1768 ) awaited direction and then , with an unusually personal note , he excuses himself , ‘ … having had the misfortune to dislocate the ankelbone of my leg above a year and a half since gone … confinement and want of usual exercise has brought many maladies upon me , but I am in hope of proper remedies to prolong life a little longer . ’ |
| 9 | The heavy dependence on foreign technical assistance has had many disadvantages . |
| 10 | That uncomfortable question has faced many investors . |
| 11 | The knowledge that the failure of the business will not mean inevitable personal disaster has motivated many business people to seek shelter behind the screen of limited liability . |
| 12 | The national contract has had many successes and there is a danger these could be threatened by fragmentation . |
| 13 | Over the years the Chalford Valley and surrounding area has housed many mills . |
| 14 | Environmental archaeology provides evidence to demonstrate that the human environment has changed many times in the past , each change heralding periods of technological , economic and social change as human societies struggled to find new ways to gain a living from the world around them . |
| 15 | The constant objective has led many players to try to copy the leading golfers in the world . |
| 16 | The style of " internal " Frankish politics had involved many confrontations , many feints and pursuits , many rituals of rebellion , but all previous potential conflicts between rival Carolingians had in the end been resolved by talk and compromise , and rituals of conciliation like shared acts of worship . |
| 17 | Long experience has taught many Irishmen that they will not get from authorities national and local the benefits and services to which they consider themselves entitled without the kindly intervention of some influential personage . |
| 18 | Britain has won third place in the arms-sales league table — behind the US and the Soviet Union — partly because the US Zionist lobby has prevented many sales to Arab states from Washington , which has forced the Arabs to go elsewhere . |
| 19 | Lily had been to dancing class — but so had Daisy and Ethel , just as all three at Dad 's especial wish had spent many hours learning the piano . |
| 20 | As my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has said many times , we should work as hard as we can in the heart of Europe to lead our partners away from the cause of Euro-dirigism and Euro-protectionism , which if allowed to develop under the influence of Madame Cresson and such people would render the entire Community less competitive in global markets and blight the prospects of the developing countries to the south and east of the existing Community . |
| 21 | The bishops'intrusion into bloody Basque politics has maddened many priests , according to Inaki Esnaola , a radical lawyer who is Herri Batasuna 's candidate for Guipuzcoa province . |
| 22 | The position was illogical , both because classical law had allowed many wordings which were far from precatory , and because the simplest way of distinguishing civil-law institutions was to see whether they used the proper wording . |
| 23 | The Bush administration was strongly against the bill , California 's independent politics having forced many industries to adapt to its standards rather than those of the federal government . |
| 24 | By 1920 those searching for better defences against microbial infection had had many setbacks . |
| 25 | ‘ For too long the rigid enforcement of the amateur code has allowed many companies to get miles of free advertising out of higher profile players . |
| 26 | ( Since the radioactive dust has killed many animals , the ownership of a scarce animal is greatly to be desired and very costly . |
| 27 | The severe reduction in Soviet aid had led many commentators to predict that 1991 would be an extremely bad year for Vietnam . |
| 28 | This new tool has spurred many studies of acidification , and is being applied to other issues such as runaway algal growth and climate change . |
| 29 | President Gorbachev claimed on Soviet television to have found many supporters of perestroika in SED . |
| 30 | Black as night , with flaming red eyes and tusks as long as a man 's arm , the Erymanthian Boar had killed many people . |