Example sentences of "[prep] many [noun pl] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , my predecessor , Bishop John Bickersteth , who for many years had been an advocate for issues of conservation , quite rightly protested that the Archbishop was saying no more than the biblical tradition states ! |
| 2 | The Location of Offices Bureau , which for many years had been attempting to move commercial development out of London , was given the task of promoting office employment within the cities , including London itself . |
| 3 | The conductor was Mr. L. Lambert , who had started conducting with Croydon Corporation in 1919 and for many years had been their union representative . |
| 4 | There was a period during which lighting , which for many years had been provided by gas mantles , was starting to be provided by electricity . |
| 5 | In this case the defendant for many years had been in possession of some artificial ornamental lakes formed by damming up a natural stream . |
| 6 | In the fuel crisis of February 1947 , an already overstretched system had been brought to breaking point : electricity supplies to many users had been periodically interrupted for weeks on end and other supplies had been restricted , in the severest winter for more than a hundred years . |