Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] have been many [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Since those early days there have been many sea chases with much bigger things at stake , but broadly speaking the same rules apply , although it is sometimes difficult to be dispassionate where hard drugs are concerned .
2 Over the past few years there have been many reports in the national press advocating that all dwellings should be fitted with smoke detectors .
3 Over the years there have been many studies of the effects of smoking on gastric secretion .
4 In recent years there have been many attacks on what is sometimes called the classic realist novel on similar grounds : that far from being a means of communication it is a means of ideological domination and repression , reproducing on the cultural level the processes of industrial capitalism , making its audience passive consumers , reconciling them to their alienated state instead of liberating them from it , by making it appear normal or natural .
5 Over the years there have been many modifications in an attempt to simplify the tendering procedure and improve the difficulties of administration .
6 In the past 10 years there have been many suggestions of an increased incidence of cancer , or of clusters of cases , in the vicinity of nuclear installations .
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