Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [vb pp] several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where there is traditional hymnody , it is often used selectively with perhaps only one or two verses of a well-known hymn being repeated several times . |
| 2 | Now the figure is multiplied several times , from shirt vendors to tour guides to the youths who hustle tapes of ragga dances — usually just pirated radio shows — near the museum . |
| 3 | This experiment was repeated several times and the average ratio of the subunits present in each band plotted ( Figure 2b ) . |
| 4 | His car was vandalised several times and he was forced to move his business after it was set on fire . |
| 5 | The circumpolar tundra and desert were reduced several times to refugia as forests expanded into them , and reconstituted into continuous zones as the forests retreated ( Lindsey , 1981 ) . |
| 6 | Removal expenses are also subject to inflation , where a player whose transfer requires a move is paid several times the cost of hiring removal men . |
| 7 | The process is repeated several times . |
| 8 | When this process was repeated several times the particles of the starting material became so small that the total surface area available for reaction was very great . |
| 9 | At the time there was no sign of Compeyson , whose dead body was found several days later . |
| 10 | This transformation was repeated several times and always produced a wild type phenotype . |
| 11 | The Railway Inspectorate gave safety clearance for the first section of the 20-mile network just 27 months after design and construction started , although the opening was postponed several times because of engineering problems , staff training and general fine-tuning . |
| 12 | To capture the sound of a band or orchestra , the head must of necessity be placed several metres away , and the result is disappointing . |
| 13 | The bell was rung several times . |
| 14 | This pairing sequence was repeated several times . |
| 15 | This sequence was repeated several times at a rhythm of nine per minute . |
| 16 | After the numerous alterations the palazzo was renamed several times , becoming the Palazzo Nationale of the Cisalpine Republic and the Palazzo Reale , the royal palace , property of the Crown , following unification . |
| 17 | Nizan 's willingness to envisage international diplomacy as an act of moral integrity rather than a process of tactical and strategic expediency was highlighted several years later in May 1939 , at a moment when Stalin tightened his grip on foreign policy by replacing Litvinov with Molotov . |
| 18 | Preliminary information has indicated that usage of this model of belt was prohibited several years ago by a CAA Airworthiness Directive . |
| 19 | This is a quite unique privilege as the list of clubs and organizations granted the right to wear special ensign was closed several years ago . |
| 20 | Their long journey was broken several times by the necessity to make repairs to the car . |
| 21 | The poem was published several years before the incident . |
| 22 | He went on to regard the presence of more than two rows to be an indication of adult growth , but , whilst this may sometimes occur it is just as likely that the unfortunate whelk was checked several times during its immature life . |
| 23 | But I think the answer was discovered several years later . |
| 24 | This answer was repeated several times while the neighbour waited . |
| 25 | For many individuals the experience is repeated several times a year , thereby constituting a serious infringement of their personal liberty , disrupting the lives of their families , often preventing them from complying with requirements for obtaining welfare benefits and effectively making them unemployable . |
| 26 | In one instance the complainant and his witnesses each had to walk over three hundred kilometres back and forth from the court because the case was postponed several times . |
| 27 | Mogul was fined several times for pollution offences . |
| 28 | Also like police court trials , witnesses had to pay their own expenses , even though they sometimes had to travel long distances , especially when a trial was postponed several times . |
| 29 | The proposition that certain forms of secondary amenorrhoea are caused by the combined oral contraceptive was debunked several years ago . |