Example sentences of "there [verb] [adv] been many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There had not been many Prussians at the bridge , for at best they had only been supposed to delay the French advance . |
| 3 | The Preface further explains that there had recently been many books published by amateurs , ‘ mere plagiarists , , who had confused names and caused trouble , not only to customers , but also to the growers . |
| 4 | There have since been many battles at this strategic crossing place , but this was the first , the greatest and the most hard fought . |
| 5 | There is no doubt tremendous strides have been made in certain sections of the North 's economy but that progress has been partial and there have also been many setbacks . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've always felt in the past that if anyone had a problem , they could always come to me and talk about it , and there have n't been many problems that we have n't been able to solve that way . ’ |
| 7 | there have n't been many ice hockey sims on the 64 — the only two I can recall ( Powerplay Hockey and Superstar Ice Hockey ) were a very long time ago . |
| 8 | There have n't been many films that show Dublin as it really is . |
| 9 | Specialist plumbers will also be needed , but Nick Booth smiles wryly and says that , so far , there have n't been many takers . |
| 10 | But there have not been many games with such drama as we saw here today . |
| 11 | There have not been many examples of large companies breaking themselves up voluntarily . |