Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] many [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 2 | And actually have been to support on many occasions in her constituency . |
| 3 | He did n't mind admitting that he was attracted to Phil Prior , but then he had been attracted to many girls in the past . |
| 4 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 5 | Developed techniques of town planning , sophisticated urban growth , have been revealed in many towns in pre-Conquest England . |
| 6 | Steady progress has been made in many authorities in integrating some of the statemented children ( the two per cent ) into mainstream primary schools . |
| 7 | Another , a woman who was living , and had been living for many years in , in continuous adultery ! |
| 8 | His creations have been seen at many eisteddfodau in North Wales . |
| 9 | Superficially , such a judgement would have been rather puzzling , given that adverbs , including adverbs of manner , normally can qualify the verb believe : ( 71 ) we must reluctantly believe what she says 4.8 The proposal to treat the adjectives of Sections 4.5 and 4.6 as if they were part of a modified subordinate clause is not of course a novel one ; notoriously , the postulation of modified subordinate clauses has been adopted by many writers in recent decades as a grammatical panacea for all manner of syntactic problems . |
| 10 | The ERNIE machine is a modern computerized form of sampling by ‘ random numbers ’ which has been used for many years in research . |
| 11 | G. affinis is a small ( 4.6 cm long ) , surface-feeding minnow which originated in the United States and has been used for many years in many parts of the world to control mosquito larvae . |
| 12 | It is possible to break out of the straight-jacket by applying an idea that had been used for many years in thinking about the psychology of classification and aesthetics ( McLlelland & Clark , 1933 ; Berlyne , 1960 ) . |
| 13 | The experience curve itself was developed from the concept of the learning curve , which had been used for many years in industries where it was observed that labour time fell as the workforce accumulated experience in producing more of a particular type of unit . |
| 14 | It has been used for many years in traveller 's diarrhoea , as a colostomy deodoriser , and as an antispirochetal agent in syphilis . |
| 15 | Platelets will rapidly adhere and aggregate if the endothelial barrier is breached , as has been shown in many studies in experimental animals ( reviewed by Mustard et al , 1983 ) , and platelets adherent to collagen release the contents of their α and dense granules . |
| 16 | The unchanging , unknowable , eternal wellspring of that energy has been called by many names in many civilisations : Brahman , Allah , God , The Absolute , to name a few . |
| 17 | For instance most of this debate would not have been understood by many people in my parish . |
| 18 | Tin placers have been worked in many areas in South-west England . |
| 19 | Even the shirts which had been left for many weeks in my laundry out-tray responded to the punishment it dished out . |
| 20 | Gold has commonly been panned from many streams in the Southern Uplands of Scotland . |