Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] [prep] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also in the field of biogeography world maps of plant formations had been utilized for many years and had indeed been adopted as the basis for some climatic classification by attempting to fit the classification to the plant distribution . |
| 2 | The old quarrel , sprung from a tract of land in dispute , had been fomented by many acts of hostility since . |
| 3 | Relations with China , which had been strained for many years since the 1962 war between the two countries , gradually improved after Rajiv Gandhi 's visit to Beijing on Dec. 19-23 , 1988 , the first to China by an Indian Prime Minister for 34 years . |
| 4 | Misgivings had been expressed by many deputies , however , principally about allowing less than two weeks for preparation and discussion of such an important piece of legislation . |
| 5 | In the drama departments there was a general welcome for the move away from written papers , which had been seen by many drama specialists as a cause of confusion between drama and English literature , with students often finding it difficult to respond to the change in emphasis towards a set text that this involved . |
| 6 | With debates about feminism and culture it had been seen by many as the key to understanding our current dilemmas . |
| 7 | The Geneva Conference had been attended by many SE Asia countries who wished to see a split Vietnam . |
| 8 | Meanwhile it had been fitted to many warships and liners , including the Scandinavian and Lusitania . |
| 9 | Sometimes this research was located in areas where the effects of human activity had been sustained for many centuries . |
| 10 | Apart from this type of building , attempts had been made in many countries to provide an adequate base for the circular section of the dome so that it could be set upon a square section building . |
| 11 | Jessica had been observed on many occasions , he was told , and with many young men . |
| 12 | In fact , even the most basic repairs had been neglected for many years before that , so that structural problems developed where they might have been avoided . |
| 13 | What had been pigeonholed by many as a niche market , for niche products , seemed to have come of age when Alain Pierrot of Hachette disclosed to the conference the total sales of the Grolier Encyclopaedia on a silvery disk . |
| 14 | He said the statue was well received at the Garden Festival and had been wanted by many local authorities . |
| 15 | She had brought glasses and dishes from home , she said ; they had been boxed for many years too long . |
| 16 | The decrease in spot density with age observed in patients with constipation is not therefore an age related factor , but is most probably related to the duration of the symptoms as most had been constipated for many years . |
| 17 | Although the general distribution of earthquakes around the world had been known for many years , it was only with the establishment of a comprehensive network of seismographic stations to monitor underground nuclear weapons testing in the early 1960s that a detailed global picture emerged ( Fig. 2.10 ) . |
| 18 | Decision : the criteria for the imposition of an indeterminate sentence had been considered in many cases , in particular Hodgson ( 1968 ) 52 Cr.App.R. 113 , Pither ( 1979 ) 1 Cr.App.R . |
| 19 | But , even though it discouraged optimism and ruled out the possibility of progress , it did not weigh too heavily on medieval historians , particularly because the year 1000 which had been awaited by many with a mixture of hope and trepidation , had passed without any sign of the world coming to an end . |
| 20 | As a young man he had been pursued by many women ; that he secretly despised them did not lessen his attractiveness but in later years his large family and increasing years had hung about him with a weight as great as any deformity : but he would never risk exposing himself as Rose had . |
| 21 | Even the shirts which had been left for many weeks in my laundry out-tray responded to the punishment it dished out . |
| 22 | The king provoked hostility by seeking to use his prerogative rights to raise money , and by requiring the payment of debts , many of which had been respited for many years . |
| 23 | This had a separate entrance and had been used for many purposes — the storage of deeds by the Wilts and Dorset Bank , prior to this by Mr. Peru , a solicitor , but when I was a small boy it had been leased to The Haunch of Venison Inn as a wine store and bottling plant . |
| 24 | James chatting with the Earl of Farrow outside Farrow Hall , which had been used for many of the exterior shots in Pemberley . |
| 25 | It is possible to break out of the straight-jacket by applying an idea that had been used for many years in thinking about the psychology of classification and aesthetics ( McLlelland & Clark , 1933 ; Berlyne , 1960 ) . |
| 26 | It had been used for many years as a staff hostel for an Oxford Street department store . |
| 27 | The experience curve itself was developed from the concept of the learning curve , which had been used for many years in industries where it was observed that labour time fell as the workforce accumulated experience in producing more of a particular type of unit . |
| 28 | Apart from the obvious benefits to those who , like myself , suffer with-gall stones , I was surprised to read so many other benefits to health that had been enjoyed by many volunteers . |
| 29 | They had been provided for many years by the YWCA , and other urban based and normally middle class-run charitable societies dispensing relief and assistance . |
| 30 | I had a great opinion of my person and air , which had been remarked by many ladies whom my vanity thought to be very good judges of these outward advantages . |