Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | His background has been catalogued on many occasions and trawled by the man himself with the single-mindedness which characterizes all his causes . |
| 2 | In recent years , the Shetland summer season has been tainted for many of us by the knowledge that thousands of our sea-birds have failed to raise any young . |
| 3 | These disciplines have been joined by many others from different fields , from Law to Business Studies , to Social Administration , to Gender Studies , to Forestry , Religious Studies and Natural Resources . |
| 4 | In any case , there are earthier explanations , such as the changes in sea level favoured by Newell ( 1963 and 1967 ) , or changes in climate ( perhaps themselves brought about by changes in the earth 's magnetism ) which are favoured by many authors . |
| 5 | Sometimes this research was located in areas where the effects of human activity had been sustained for many centuries . |
| 6 | Iran has always been inhabited by many different people or tribes . |
| 7 | The major breed societies and their representatives are listed in many good books and in publications like the Horse and Hound Diary . |
| 8 | This is possible because the ability of even very young children to engage in reflective thought has now been recognized in many educational circles ( see Chapters 5 and 7 for discussion of this ) . |
| 9 | Interventions by schools to reduce smoking have been undertaken for many decades , although little attention has been given to assessing their effectiveness . |
| 10 | Up-to-date valuations of such properties had not been undertaken for many years previously , partly because of business people 's complaints that any revaluations of commercial properties could inevitably lead to an increase in their total tax bill . |
| 11 | The very fundamental notion of the phoneme , for example , has been treated in many different ways . |
| 12 | Early booking is recommended as numbers are limited on many of the tours . |
| 13 | What ever the mechanisms involved , persistent infections are implicated in many troublesome and damaging diseases such as SSPE , multiple sclerosis , arthritis , recurrent herpes and many more . |
| 14 | There is no doubt that factors like these are important in what we may call the social ‘ life ’ of language , and they are implicated in many aspects of linguistic variation and change . |
| 15 | Is n't it strange that we are taught about many things which may never come to pass and yet most of us are not prepared for the one inevitable occurrence in our lives ? |
| 16 | Clerical Medical 's record of consistent performance has been highlighted in many independent surveys and has attracted much favourable comment . |
| 17 | The need for training has been highlighted in many major reports . |
| 18 | These major companies are very stable , with an organisational structure which has been developed over many years and , like the Japanese Zaibatsu , they have a large-core business which is able to withstand changes in the market place . |
| 19 | It may be related to the size , complexity and nature of the company 's operation and therefore to the organisational structure which has been developed over many years . |
| 20 | While case management has empirical referents which have been developed over many years ( largely in the USA ) care management has , until recently , had none . |
| 21 | The use of sacred measure and proportion has been developed by many researchers to postulate a geometrical pattern across the land , extending Watkins ' ley theory into wider concepts of ‘ landscape geometry ’ , and we have already looked at the work of Tyler , Lawton and Koop in exploring wider patterns . |
| 22 | This method has been taught for many years and I do not think that pilots who have learned to do it this way need bother to change . |
| 23 | Population decline has been halted in many areas since the mid-1960s to its present level of 346,000 , with employment in manufacturing trebling in this period and total employment growing by one-half ( Shucksmith and Lloyd 1982 ) . |
| 24 | On being asked about the condition of the front door and windows , he admitted they had n't been painted for many years and that the door had more or less reached the end of its life , and showed it . |
| 25 | In the ECM the avoidance of reserve requirements , etc. , permits the payment of higher interest on deposits ( competition forced these cost savings to be passed on to depositors ) while large loans are arranged in many cases by telephone or telex , and thus operating costs are kept to a minimum . |
| 26 | Canteiro is a wine which has been matured over many years without going into an estufa , and it is of a good age . |
| 27 | Credit managers have traditionally been regarded in many companies as little more than debt collectors , albeit often highly effective ones . |
| 28 | The duchess being bride to the heir presumptive , with the princes gone , any issue of hers would have been regarded by many as rightful sovereign of the realm . |
| 29 | Our pupils are exposed to many different materials , tools and processes and from the beginning they are taught the importance of the design process . |
| 30 | School monitors are distinguished in many ways , the most obvious being the vermilion gown ; they may also grow a moustache . |