Example sentences of "[vb -s] [been] [adj] [prep] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus a verdict at an inquest of natural causes aggravated by lack of care has been available for many years . |
| 2 | Abroad , the idea of Freeports has been current for many years . |
| 3 | McLaren boss Teddy Mayer as much as admitted at the end of 1975 that he thought Emerson wanted to move — or that he was in personal trouble of one kind and another — but the official news reached Hunt before it got to the team , and got to Hunt through Domingos Piedade , an eccentric figure close to the cheerful groupie Googie Zanon , a wealthy ( textiles ) Italian aristocrat whose support has been crucial to many drivers at critical points in their career , then ‘ manager ’ to Emerson and now to Ayrton Senna — a fringe career from which Domingos , hugely personable , but also often more a talker than a doer , has made a more than reasonable living . |
| 4 | Despite the conclusion of a Comprehensive Programme of Integration in 1971 , progress on this front has been pitiful in many respects compared with that achieved within the EEC . |
| 5 | The mammalian gut has been stable for many millennia and acts to constrain the flexibility of E. coli 's genome . |
| 6 | Ever since his election as ARFU president in 1988 , French has been involved in many discussions with South African rugby officials assisting and advising them in their aim once again to be welcomed back into the international playing fraternity . |
| 7 | He has attended numerous meetings and social events , and has been involved in many projects . |
| 8 | As will later become clear , Mrs Whitehouse has been involved in many campaigns in this area but there are two in particular which are of immediate relevance to this discussion . |
| 9 | There is no space here to examine this issue in detail , but it is at least a little odd that the work of such pragmatic theorists as Grice , Horn , Levinson and Sperber and Wilson , which has been successful in many areas and which has also cast serious doubt on speech-act-based approaches , is never mentioned in a book which explicitly claims the superiority of Austinian approaches . |
| 10 | Rings of this style are known as ‘ betrothal ’ rings and the design of the clasped hands has been popular for many centuries . |
| 11 | ‘ This season has been different in many respects . |
| 12 | At the summit of Pico do Arieiro ( 1,818m ) there is a snack bar which has been open for many years , and a pousada recently opened . |
| 13 | Since the time of Freud , it has been acceptable to many theorists that the way in which we behave may be powerfully influenced by mental processes to which we have no conscious access . |
| 14 | The latter probably included correspondence with Colonel Filipović in Belgrade , who has been active for many years in agitating for firmer action |
| 15 | Riddel 's Warehouse , Ann Street , ( 1867 ) : blighted by proximity to police station , has been empty for many years . |
| 16 | The warehouse has been empty for many years , but holding repairs have meant at least that water penetration to the fabric is reduced . |
| 17 | There are , however , two longstanding situations on Southern Sandstone where payment of an admission fee has been customary for many years . |
| 18 | 9.18–26 ; Luke 8.40–56 ) he heals a woman who has been unclean for many years because of a flow of blood . |
| 19 | What is documented in the book is what everyone in sport has known for years — that the use of steroids has been widespread in many sports since the sixties . |
| 20 | Water is committed to the development of effective competition and has been instrumental in many changes . |
| 21 | Then Jimmy said well you know she 's been dead for many years and er she says , oh that 's right . |