Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] many [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been many things in my life , but I 'm not a liar . ’ |
| 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 | Since the introduction of the stored program concept , there have been many developments in the design of general-purpose digital computers , but only two can be described as vital omissions from the computer described in the previous section . |
| 4 | Dr Margaret O'Brien , a chartered psychologist at East London Polytechnic and author of The New Man , told the conference : ‘ Though there have been many changes in family life over the century , it is surprising to discover that children seem to have such a traditional view . ’ |
| 5 | With its disappearance there have been many changes in the face of Croydon and changes are continuing . |
| 6 | The fact that women have decided to participate in the difficult but just struggle of El Salvador has meant that they have developed politically and ideologically and that there have been many changes in men 's attitudes , After the triumph , I believe these changes will become more apparent . |
| 7 | There certainly have been many changes in both attitudes to women 's sexuality and in women 's sexual practices over the last few decades . |
| 8 | Since the Second World War there have been many changes in official policies toward , and social assumptions concerning , the control and treatment of crime and offenders . |
| 9 | There must be hundreds of females and males out there too frightened to speak out in case they lose their jobs , because let's not forget there have been many cases in which males have been harassed or are being ha harassed . |
| 10 | There have been many times in history when Christianity has faced extreme difficulty . |
| 11 | I have been many things in my time . |
| 12 | er Parents predicament is understandable , there have been many tragedies in the past where local authorities perhaps took too much notice of the parents and too little of the children . |
| 13 | By contrast , Richard Smith and David Thomson have argued , on the basis of long-term demographic evidence , that forms of retirement have existed throughout history and ( particularly if one excludes the high birth-rate nineteenth century ) that there have been many periods in which a simple dependency ratio of the elderly to the non-elderly population has been high . |
| 14 | There have been many periods in the past when the degree of concentration has been significantly large ( Table 4. 1 ) and when such degrees of concentration have generated calls for inquiries . |
| 15 | Do you Would there have been many people in that school at the time . |
| 16 | Over the years there have been many modifications in an attempt to simplify the tendering procedure and improve the difficulties of administration . |