Example sentences of "many had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many had been awake all night , listening with increasing horror to the first confused reports of the massacre in Peking . |
| 2 | Page 31 Decline encouraging : The $142m deline in Britain 's reserves of gold and foreign exchange to $42.88bn was less than many had been fearing . |
| 3 | Many had been decaying steadily for years : their owners had no use for them and could not imagine that anyone else would . |
| 4 | Above all I was pleased to have assured myself an income exceeding that on which some men had written great poetry , others had done great deeds , many had been free and happy . |
| 5 | This did not mean their parents had happily shelled out the £2,000 for the trip — many had been sponsored by local firms and one girl had taken out a bank loan . |
| 6 | When Luxembourg finally admitted what many had been saying for years , that it wants a federal EC , British federalists tried to pretend that the Luxembourgers do not mean federal when they say ‘ federal ’ . |
| 7 | Many had been demolished , burnt down or left to run to ruin , leaving only the more modest farmhouses and other traditional vernacular buildings normally associated with the Welsh countryside . |
| 8 | This ignored the fact that many had been created out of poor arable land or even poorer scrub . |
| 9 | Once the Marton track was relaid post-war , the Standards were replaced by modern single-deckers , and by 1954 when Manager Luff retired , many had been broken up . |
| 10 | Here was an opportunity many had been waiting for . |
| 11 | There were no classes in child welfare for the very young mothers , and many had been fed on milk from dirty Nestles milk tins . |
| 12 | While many had been in the county for several generations the group as a whole showed remarkable resilience and a powerful capacity for accepting newcomers , men who replaced declining families . |
| 13 | Despite their preponderance in numbers still — for probably not a great many had been slain — fleeing in all directions as they had done , horseless and with few if any senior commanders , it was all but inconceivable that they could re-form and offer any coherent opposition . |
| 14 | The troops , lacking adequate maps and orders , wandered about the shore in disarray ; many had been landed indiscriminately ( often in the wrong place ) and stores and ammunition had been stockpiled without regard to their future use . |
| 15 | But then they had a habit of melting into society , and in the meantime many had been the expensive guests of the German taxpayer . |
| 16 | During the third week of the Council , Archbishop Parente appealed to African bishops for support , criticizing them for turning against their old masters ( many had been trained at Propaganda Fide ) and siding with the northern Europeans . |
| 17 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 18 | Young people approaching the age when they would no longer be the formal responsibility of the local authorities became the primary consumers of residential care for several reasons : first , many had been placed with a family and temporary readmission to residential care was needed when such placements broke down ; second , some did not wish to join a new family and preferred group living amongst other young people and appointed caregivers ; and third , some were admitted to a residential setting for help with specific problems or as part of a strategy to prepare them for independent living . |
| 19 | In the eyes of elderly people many NHS hospitals were still Poor Law institutions , since many had been built originally as workhouses and had not changed a great deal in appearance . |
| 20 | Many had been forced to leave town , and even the unusually low subsistence allowance the union was paying had eaten alarmingly into its funds . |
| 21 | Between 19 and 24 May , 12,196 Croats had already been handed over through 6 Armoured Division area , although many had been held in camps under 78 Division and 46 Division . |
| 22 | Many had been the voyages of discovery she had made in this — the most powerful spacecraft that had never been built , and never will be . |
| 23 | Pete had seen a fair number of valley mornings , although not so many had been as early as this . |
| 24 | This seemed to strike and sober them … a thing which to all of them was so familiar , and to many had been only the subject of coarse jest . |
| 25 | For although Cabezón 's compositions first appeared in print in Luys Venegas de Henestrosa 's Libro de cifra ( figure notation ) nueva para tecla ( keyboard ) , harpay vihuela ( Alcala , 1557 ) , and the rest of them only in the Obras de musica published posthumously by his son ( Madrid , 1578 ) , no doubt many had been written as early as the lute pieces in Narvaez 's Delphin de musica ( Valladolid , 1538 ) . |
| 26 | People just dropped in , even though many had been less than welcome with some of It 's staff . |
| 27 | ‘ 63 teams from all over the UK took part , and it was clear that many had been training for months . |
| 28 | How many had been beggared while the war between the royal cousins had swept across their fields or through their towns , while the barons who should have protected them looked only to their own gain , shifting loyalties so often that the ordinary common man found himself constantly besieged and attacked by both sides ? |
| 29 | It claimed that some 300 people had been detained and tortured in 1990-91 and many had been tortured . |
| 30 | Rioting was reported in the ensuing days in Yaoundé , Douala and Bafoussam , and news agency reports quoted an official of the SDF as saying on Nov. 1 that 500 people had been arrested in Bamenda , and that many had been subjected to beatings . |