Example sentences of "many [noun pl] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many bombs had been attached to cars . |
| 2 | Many bombs had been attached to cars . |
| 3 | Many reasons have been offered , including the threat of European fascism , the events at Olympia , the introduction of the Public Order Act in 1936 , military uniforms , the stability of the political system , the economic recovery of the 1930s and the occurrence of the Second World War . |
| 4 | Many reasons have been given for its demise : the potential high cost of registry operations ' insurance , especially since the participants ' liability had not been established ; the unwillingness of commodity traders to record their transactions in a central registry subject to inspection by competitors and tax authorities ; the reticence by the ultimate buyers of spot crude oil to acquire bills of lading from an entity designed to service intermediaries and speculators ; and the banks ' discomfort with the exclusive control of the registry business by one of their competitors . |
| 5 | They have been strongly promoted by the WIIC , and many projects have been assisted by the HIDB . |
| 6 | Many authorities have been cited . |
| 7 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many taxes have been abolished since 1979 ; and if he will list them . |
| 8 | Fletcher said : ‘ In the past it has often been an unfair battle between batsmen and spinners in indoor nets , many surfaces have been straight up and down and the ball has n't turned . |
| 9 | I asked him how many houses had been completed in 1991 , and I will tell him the answer . |
| 10 | Even in incessant rain it still seemed lovely and , at least within its walls , remarkably unspoilt , though behind the medieval faades many houses have been relentlessly modernised . |
| 11 | So many houses have been burgled here and old people are afraid to come out at night . |
| 12 | Well the distance is equal to a hundred miles an hour , times how many hours has been travelling for ? |
| 13 | Recipients of many conifers have been the National Parks which now find themselves under serious threat from developers instead of trees . |
| 14 | At last the government recognised what many researchers had been saying for years : that corporal punishment did not address the causes of bad behaviour , caused resentment among older pupils in particular , and was ‘ inimical to the quality of relationships between teachers and pupils upon which good behaviour is based ’ . |
| 15 | The Jordanians are doing a magnificent job , keeping , keeping the show going erm people in those camps in many cases have been there for 4,5 or 7 days . |
| 16 | The location of the earliest episcopal churches — in the inhabited suburbs , within the walls , near the edge of the walled town , or near the centre ? — is often doubtful and in many cases has been much debated . |
| 17 | Many proposals have been put forward over more than 100 years . |
| 18 | Many proposals have been made to tighten the law and offer real care and protection to children , the most vulnerable members of society . |
| 19 | Many Anglicans had been brought up to revere ‘ the family ’ , and felt that this publicity was damaging to the ideas they cherished ; a number of men also had reason to fear that their own behaviour would be exposed . |
| 20 | Nevertheless many improvements had been made , much enthusiasm generated and a customer-focus was more apparent ( Centre for the Evaluation of Public Policy and Practice 1991 ) . |
| 21 | The hon. Member for Worsley knows that many improvements have been made to the regulatory system . |
| 22 | Many improvements have been made since Hillsborough , which was caused by a combination of factors . |
| 23 | Too many signs to ignore are now pointing towards the dawning of a new era in which the dominant hold exercised by the Home Office over the system of criminal justice , the connecting thread of this book , may be lessened if not relinquished altogether . |
| 24 | Many attempts have been made to compile a genealogical tree showing the relationships of these animals to one another and to man . |
| 25 | Many attempts have been made simply to control the starfish . |
| 26 | Many attempts have been made to classify British cattle breeds on the basis of ancestry and these categories are often based on obvious physical characteristics such as horns and coat colour . |
| 27 | Many attempts have been made to breed them in captivity , however , there are flaws in this idea . |
| 28 | Many attempts have been made to find a version of utilitarianism which avoids the oddities both of straight totalistic utilitarianism and straight average utilitarianism but none seems to be really satisfactory . |
| 29 | Many attempts have been made in the House to reform the private Bill procedure and many of them have collapsed because it has always been easier for a private measure to be introduced . |
| 30 | Much has been written on the performance of British business during the period and many attempts have been made to explain , excuse or refute what has been seen as a decline in British innovative ability since the successes of the industrial revolution . |