Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1986 there was new legislation to restore these traditional colours to houses in the island and banning the use of unpainted aluminium for windows , gates and so on , which have been spoiling many of the traditional buildings . |
| 2 | The process of management and the functions of management have been analysed many times in various ways by different writers , who have taken the view that : |
| 3 | ‘ I have been called many things by my political opponents , but I have just been given the kiss of death . ’ |
| 4 | Books have been called many things in their time , but not ‘ lean and muscular ’ . |
| 5 | Aristotle himself believed that the arts and the sciences have been discovered many times and then lost again . |
| 6 | The pre-civilisation human family , in existence before any kind of personal care replaced the primitive laws of survival , would , by its very nature have been spared many of the divisive burdens which break up modern family life . |
| 7 | I have been performing many exercises to aid specific problems within my playing for some time now , which could be referred to as callisthenics . |
| 8 | Deficits in visual function following subcortical visual system lesions have been reported many times but it is difficult to interpret them . |
| 9 | The new ministers soon find that there is remarkably little room for manoeuvre , and that most of the quick and easy panaceas to the intractable problems of Defence have been tried many times before . |
| 10 | In the clear conditions , anglers have been spotting many of the venue 's double-figure carp but they'ree not feeding , ’ he added . |
| 11 | ( I have been told many times by participants in such workshops that they have felt it necessary to conceal from their colleagues where they were going ! ) |