Example sentences of "[verb] be many " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ways in which resources are partitioned are many , as , for example , on Barro Colorado Island where there are as many as eight variables of importance in just the food of coexisting ‘ surface-gleaning ’ bats . |
| 2 | Since then it has been many times re-invented and used for 3D picture postcards . |
| 3 | It has been many years since the proud Fruithill Park outfit languished in the bottom half of the division after only three games , which is the case this season . |
| 4 | So immersed are many black kids in their sport or sports , they sometimes neglect their academic work . |
| 5 | Needs are few , but wants are many . |
| 6 | Among the other plants that are not only suitable for planting in window boxes but also pressing are many of the variegated ivies , some grey foliage plants such as cineraria , Pyrethrum ptarmiflorum , heathers and also miniature conifers . |
| 7 | This could be an indication of a continuing unwillingness to recognise how much further advanced are many EEC and OECD centres in their education and training provision for people with disabilities . |
| 8 | The purposes for which business letters are used are many but some of the most important are listed below : |
| 9 | ‘ But despite his faults — which I confess were many — he was adept at killing . |
| 10 | There must have been many an occasion when agents , in particular , must have wished to see the back of him . |
| 11 | Clive Lloyd is one of the best-loved cricketers ever to walk on to a field , but after the relentless domination of his four-man pace attack there must have been many people who permitted themselves a smile at the news . |
| 12 | Umpire Alley eventually warned Holding , but there must have been many Lancastrians who were sad to see Lloyd , on his home ground , do nothing about it . |
| 13 | When Willis came out , England were 197 ahead with 151 minutes and twenty overs left and there can not have been many who doubted West Indies would win , but with Willis lunging his left leg forward and Willey protecting him from the strike as much as possible , they began to put together a remarkable stand . |
| 14 | Surely there must have been many others equally clinching . |
| 15 | There must have been many different ways for brachiopods to exploit their simple mode of life . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | His hands were very full with arrangements for his attack on Normandy , and there must also have been many discussions about the terms on which he would be willing to make peace with the papacy . |
| 24 | There were no longer any grave differences of principle between him and the king , but there must have been many routine tasks after so long an absence , and these seem to have occupied the greater part of 1107 . |
| 25 | There must have been some great stars and some ecstatic moments in those cosy halls but there must also have been many second- and third-rate performers , constant recourse to stereotypes , excessive repetition , and buckets of sentimentality . |
| 26 | Among them must have been many new men pushing up from below . |
| 27 | Below the exemption line there must have been many small masters . |
| 28 | ‘ But for the intrusion of editorial conscience there would have been many more , ’ he wrote in the preface . |
| 29 | On the contrary , there must have been many fervent followers of Jesus who conformed to a similar pattern — teetering on the brink of shattering disillusion , then finding a new justification in Paul . |
| 30 | I can also acknowledge that there must have been many women like her , all over Glasgow ; that there were then in the early 1900s when she was marrying and becoming a mother ; that there were later . |