Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 2 | It is a memorable evocation , casting a spell over the reader : ‘ She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her … ’ |
| 3 | The effect has been so many priorities and urgent tasks to change the meaning and the effect of the concept . |
| 4 | ‘ I should like that very much , but you must have been there many times before . ’ |
| 5 | There had been so many meetings ; 80 a day , someone had told him . |
| 6 | There had been so many secrets . |
| 7 | ‘ Our last two albums for them , ‘ Peace In Our Time ’ and ‘ No Place Like Home ’ , were stodgy affairs , and there had been so many hassles . |
| 8 | During the short time their marriage had lasted , there had been so many times when she had given in to Julius 's forceful demands , just to keep the peace . |
| 9 | He was consumed by indignation that there had been so many attempts to swindle his country in its attempts to gain arms to protect itself from the aggression of Iraq . |
| 10 | There had been so many pieces of paper ; 50 million at least , someone else had told him , generated during his eight years as President . |
| 11 | It was n't worth asking of what kind ; there had been so many beginnings . |
| 12 | But she said that they had been so many months or when everybody else had a pay rise they only had a little bit . |
| 13 | Lord Weir added that there had been too many incidents of vandalism to the danger of people on the railways . |
| 14 | There had been too many occasions on which she had tried to please , hoped for hugs or even smiles , times when she had practised the piano and cleaned her room assiduously , only to be met by jibes , or slaps , or worse still , beatings . |
| 15 | Since then , looking back on it , there had been too many children 's holidays and not nearly as many lunches with girls in the ‘ Dolce Vita ’ as a man deserved . |
| 16 | There had been too many films taken , shown on TV , of Franklin D. Hauser departing by Lear jet in the States for yet another destination . |
| 17 | He had been there many times before . |
| 18 | If I was on the streets of Ireland now , and I 've been there many occasions and someone said to me , look at that Welsh get there , I would just have to take it . |
| 19 | I know that the new members of Council have been welcomed into our midst and it must be along time since there 've been so many changes . |
| 20 | ‘ There 've been so many times when I 've lain awake at night longing for you to kiss me , make love to me . |
| 21 | There have been so many accidents on the M-40 , police have lost count of the number . |
| 22 | The route has been described to death and there have been so many accounts of the leading objects , I am inclined to be silent till I reach some spots where fewer pens have essayed to give to the world their portraiture , allowing the sketches engraved to leave my mite of tribute alike to the noble natural architecture of the Isle of Caves and the art treasures in the Isle of Ionic Crosses . |
| 23 | There have been so many thefts from Venetian churches over recent years ( see p.16 ) that , without custodians , the college of priests will be forced to recommend keeping most Venetian church doors closed . |
| 24 | There have been so many changes in education that even teachers find it hard to keep up — so professionals as well as parents will welcome the Parents ' Information Checklist , £4.50 from the Advisory Centre for Education , 1b Aberdeen Studios , 22/24 Highbury Grove , N5 2EA . |
| 25 | ‘ He has now got a new incentive at Forest where there have been so many changes . ’ |
| 26 | There have been so many taboos surrounding some kings that it has been difficult , if not impossible , to find anyone to be successor , for the taboos lead to total social isolation of the ruler . |
| 27 | We noted the omission of any mention of meat and asked her particularly about this , as there have been so many debates among anthropologists in recent years as to the origins of hunting and meat-eating . |
| 28 | ‘ There have been so many plans for the place and everything seems to fall through , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Besides , there have been so many opportunities for growth in countries that do not require local equity sharing that they have had little incentive to try to build businesses in those countries that do . |
| 30 | Well er as I say the position of the Parish Council the fact that there have been so many objections are fully reported in the committee papers today . |