Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 2 | It is a memorable evocation , casting a spell over the reader : ‘ She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her … ’ |
| 3 | The effect has been so many priorities and urgent tasks to change the meaning and the effect of the concept . |
| 4 | She reckoned there must have been as many as four hundred of them . |
| 5 | Exactly how many boxes there were originally is not certain , although it seems there may have been as many as sixty-five , all of which were sent to Rome 's Istituto Centrale del Restauro in 1947 . |
| 6 | There may have been as many as 200 women compositors in London in the early 1890s , but as has been noted , the London Society of Compositors was able to exert pressure on employers and see that on the whole they were vanishing or being expelled to printing-houses in the Home Counties . |
| 7 | Police believe four men may have taken part in the grudge attack though they have been told there may have been as many as 10 . |
| 8 | ‘ I should like that very much , but you must have been there many times before . ’ |
| 9 | There seems to have been too many people writing blockbusters , and too few plots stretched much too far . |
| 10 | I mean there had been how many ? |
| 11 | There had been so many meetings ; 80 a day , someone had told him . |
| 12 | There had been so many pieces of paper ; 50 million at least , someone else had told him , generated during his eight years as President . |
| 13 | He was consumed by indignation that there had been so many attempts to swindle his country in its attempts to gain arms to protect itself from the aggression of Iraq . |
| 14 | There had been so many secrets . |
| 15 | It was n't worth asking of what kind ; there had been so many beginnings . |
| 16 | During the short time their marriage had lasted , there had been so many times when she had given in to Julius 's forceful demands , just to keep the peace . |
| 17 | ‘ Our last two albums for them , ‘ Peace In Our Time ’ and ‘ No Place Like Home ’ , were stodgy affairs , and there had been so many hassles . |
| 18 | But she said that they had been so many months or when everybody else had a pay rise they only had a little bit . |
| 19 | To judge by the photographs , on this occasion it had been as many as twenty . |
| 20 | It could be just another trap and what with Mr Bishop and Gazzer , there had been too many of those lately . |
| 21 | Lately there had been too many hushed conversations and long telephone calls behind the doors of their London apartment . |
| 22 | There had been too many films taken , shown on TV , of Franklin D. Hauser departing by Lear jet in the States for yet another destination . |
| 23 | Since then , looking back on it , there had been too many children 's holidays and not nearly as many lunches with girls in the ‘ Dolce Vita ’ as a man deserved . |
| 24 | There had been too many occasions on which she had tried to please , hoped for hugs or even smiles , times when she had practised the piano and cleaned her room assiduously , only to be met by jibes , or slaps , or worse still , beatings . |
| 25 | Lord Weir added that there had been too many incidents of vandalism to the danger of people on the railways . |
| 26 | He had been there many times before . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , it 's a pot I 've been down many times — not the easiest ; apart from a fifty-foot pitch we 'll have to haul him up , there 's a long sump we 'll have to bring the injured man back through which could be tricky if he 's unconscious or uncooperative . |
| 28 | If I was on the streets of Ireland now , and I 've been there many occasions and someone said to me , look at that Welsh get there , I would just have to take it . |
| 29 | ‘ There 've been so many times when I 've lain awake at night longing for you to kiss me , make love to me . |
| 30 | I know that the new members of Council have been welcomed into our midst and it must be along time since there 've been so many changes . |