Example sentences of "[be] many " in BNC.
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| 31 | There have of course been many other television programmes which have touched on the subject of mental handicap , including series such as ‘ Let's Go ’ , a weekly series for the mentally handicapped launched in 1981 , and followed by a second series in 1983 , and ‘ Accident of Birth ’ , a series mainly for parents and people working with the mentally handicapped broadcast in early 1982 . |
| 32 | There have been many volumes written on the Cotswold wool trade but comparatively little ever said about the silk industry . |
| 33 | It is possible that she acquired a posthumous conscience for , over the years , there have been many well-attested witnessings of her shade , wringing its hands — at the fate of William ? |
| 34 | There must have been many daughters like Margaret White , who described in the 1590s how she stayed on living with her widowed father , ‘ guided him and his household , and was continually with him in his sickness until his death ’ . |
| 35 | There have been many theories accounting for the prevalence of North , North East and East facing galleries , including a favourite one that they were built so that thrifty spinners might sit out and catch the last of the waning daylight . |
| 36 | But it is important to state that although in recent years in Britain , there have been many service innovations whose aim has been to improve the home or community care of elderly mentally frail people ( see for example Age Concern England , l983 ) , unfortunately most of these schemes have either not been systematically evaluated ( often because they have been very small in scale ) , or — if they have — results have not been widely disseminated . |
| 37 | In South America where savannas occupy some 2 × 110 8 ha , there have been many modifications of the natural vegetation for a variety of agricultural purposes ranging from large-scale ranching to intensive cropping based on irrigation . |
| 38 | As examples of the achievements of these minds , I think of the Gandavyuha and the Sufis ' planes of reality but there have been many others whose level of vision is as extensive though in no sense more penetrating or more brilliant . |
| 39 | There have been many who have left their footsteps in the sand and bequeathed an example to follow . |
| 40 | There have been many different attempts to explain these pressures , in terms of capitalist crisis ( or the fiscal crisis of the state ( O'Connor , 1973 ) ) ; or the state acting as a leech on productive sectors of the economy ( most strongly argued in Bacon and Eltis , 1976 ) ; or simply in terms of monetarism ( outlined in Gamble , 1984 , pp. 145–9 ; Leys , 1983 ) . |
| 41 | International conferences could provide the vehicle for international co-operation and co-ordination , but apart from the few international conferences organized by the British Library and by the International Association of Technological University Libraries ( IATUL ) there have not been many more than a dozen , and none of these has focused on the need for international co-ordination ; although they have kindled a certain amount of international co.operation . |
| 42 | Already there have been many studies of the effect of unemployment on health ; do they give useful results ? |
| 43 | Since then it has been many times re-invented and used for 3D picture postcards . |
| 44 | From that time which here and elsewhere has been vaguely defined as the dawn of civilisation , to the time when the need to have a ‘ god ’ had reached the point where traces of its implementation were left for modern man to find , must have been many thousands of years . |
| 45 | There have been many attempts to understand why certain materials cause blood coagulation and many suggestions have been made as to how to overcome the problem . |
| 46 | There have been many attempts to produce haemocompatible materials and some researchers have suggested that the key to producing such materials is to have a negatively charged surface . |
| 47 | There had been many minor challenges , from earlier emperors , and from the popes , and from local bishops and nobles . |
| 48 | And doubtless there would have been many more had it not been for that unfortunate accident which befell Mr Rabbit in Mr MacGregor 's garden whereby he ended up in one of Mrs MacGregor 's rabbit pies . |
| 49 | There have been many conflicting ideas and suggestions about what should be done . |
| 50 | There have been many variants , but one of the most extensive and thorough applications of this principle has been at Bijlmermeer in south-east Amsterdam . |
| 51 | He assumed the visit must be one of Isobel 's whims , and there had been many of those . |
| 52 | Vlaçek had been a prize , and he had been loyal : all attempts to woo him away from de Chavigny — and there had been many — had failed . |
| 53 | There have been many interesting people amongst the schoolmasters , vicars , landowners and dignitaries over the years . |
| 54 | IF ONE HAD been going to cast anyone in the title role of a movie called Little Big Man , there would not have been many actors in Hollywood one could have thought of besides Dustin Hoffman . |
| 55 | Although only a few churches were listed in Domesday Book for Sussex , there must have been many more and the growth of towns and Wealden colonisation saw the establishment of a fixed parish system by the early thirteenth century . |
| 56 | Much of Sussex 's early medieval wealth was built on the close relationship between farming life and industry ; although many villages had specialists in each there must have been many with dual occupations , men able to shift from one to the other as the season or demand dictated . |
| 57 | With its disappearance there have been many changes in the face of Croydon and changes are continuing . |
| 58 | In the subsequent experience of the Church in exercising this ministry there have been many instances of failure , partial , delayed and temporary healing , reminding us that we live with the tension of the ‘ now ’ and the ‘ not yet ’ of the Kingdom . |
| 59 | There had n't been many teddy boys in Knockglen , in fact no one could ever remember having seen one except on visits to Dublin where there were groups of them hanging round corners . |
| 60 | There must have been many jealous eyes directed towards Russell who , owing to his association with the College of Arms , was able to attract a fair proportion of the up-market trade within London . |