Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [prep] many [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 2 | Much will depend on how it seeks to solve the long-running debate about merging income tax and the national insurance system ; whether benefits , including pensions , are to be universal or selective ; and , if selective , how the state is to deal with obligations to people who have been contributing for many years to what they were told was national insurance . |
| 3 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 4 | Another , a woman who was living , and had been living for many years in , in continuous adultery ! |
| 5 | Also , we have been calling for many years for legislation to get rid of the offshore tax havens of the sort that Lord Duncan-Sandys ploughed money into from Lonrho about 1970 . |
| 6 | My hon. Friend makes a point which my right hon. and hon. Friends and I will be making on many occasions in the weeks ahead . |
| 7 | I am wary of being too emotive in this paper but also concerned to do justice to the seriousness of the struggle for health that people and their movements are undertaking in many parts of the world , including the Philippines . |
| 8 | And , if one accepts the concept that the spirit is journeying through many lifetimes in order to achieve that degree of evolution which makes it unnecessary to spend further time on this earth , then surely it must be essential to experience life both as a man and as a woman . |
| 9 | I 've been quite frightened by what is happening in many areas of conservation and environment problems , and I decided that the best , one of the best , courses that I could take was to incorporate conservation in my work . |
| 10 | firstly it will co-ordinate the statistical findings of a team of sub-editors who are working on many aspects of Agrarian history in the period . |
| 11 | There was not a soul to be seen , though it was a weekend and the sun was shining after many days of rain . |