Example sentences of "many [noun pl] [verb] been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many reasons have been given for its demise : the potential high cost of registry operations ' insurance , especially since the participants ' liability had not been established ; the unwillingness of commodity traders to record their transactions in a central registry subject to inspection by competitors and tax authorities ; the reticence by the ultimate buyers of spot crude oil to acquire bills of lading from an entity designed to service intermediaries and speculators ; and the banks ' discomfort with the exclusive control of the registry business by one of their competitors . |
| 2 | Well the distance is equal to a hundred miles an hour , times how many hours has been travelling for ? |
| 3 | At last the government recognised what many researchers had been saying for years : that corporal punishment did not address the causes of bad behaviour , caused resentment among older pupils in particular , and was ‘ inimical to the quality of relationships between teachers and pupils upon which good behaviour is based ’ . |
| 4 | However , many trusts have been running for less than five years . |
| 5 | Many explanations have been given for the careful measurements and statistical information so frequent in Wordsworth 's early poetry , for example : but surely even this may ultimately go back to a desire to placate the scientific and Lockean tradition . |
| 6 | This may sound an obvious sort of compromise , but it is the kind of ethical advice many managers have been looking for . |
| 7 | The ways in which intonation does this are very complex , and many suggestions have been made for ways of isolating different functions . |
| 8 | Many developments have been delayed for years pending completion of new or improvements to existing sewage works . |
| 9 | Many materials have been produced for different languages by individual teachers : these have been shown to succeed in the very specific circumstances facing a particular teacher/author in his or her classroom , but it has not so far proved possible to generalise from the successes in terms of easily accessible materials usable by different teachers under differing circumstances . |