Example sentences of "[been] many [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Du Camp probably coarsened it in the retelling , and there would have been many Flaubertian redraftings before publication . |
| 2 | There have been many successful partnerships for town centre development ( for example Eldon Square , Newcastle and the Arndale Shopping Centre in Manchester ) . |
| 3 | Although there have been many useful publications in the field of special educational needs during the last decade , the distinguishing feature of the present series of volumes lies in their concern with specific areas of the curriculum in primary and secondary schools . |
| 4 | Below the exemption line there must have been many small masters . |
| 5 | There have been many great events to remember over the years . |
| 6 | There have been many recent changes in government intervention programmes causing damaging uncertainty . |
| 7 | It is clearly important to establish what the earliest plan of a village was , since there have often been many post-medieval changes . |
| 8 | There have been many memorable moments : watching a gyr falcon trying to out-manoeuvre puffins in flight off the headland of Tjörnes ; finding purple sandpipers , dunlin , redshank and Arctic terns all breeding together near Núpscatla ; the spectacular east coast road which in places cuts across forty-five degree mountain slopes where you can look down on vast flocks of moulting eider drakes on the sea below . |
| 9 | There have been many patent applications for computer hardware and other electronic materials ; for example , the invention of the printed circuit board , transistor and integrated circuit have all been patented . |
| 10 | There have of course been many other visits which were either not documented or else which were presented in an ephemeral form . |
| 11 | There have been many other successes , but there are still problems to solve . |
| 12 | There have been many other schemes where vandalised and derelict estates have been transferred to the private sector for sale as luxury housing . |
| 13 | But then , hell , he should know — there ca n't have been many other pop entertainers from the Cheshire market town to play here . |
| 14 | But then , hell , he should know — there ca n't have been many other pop entertainers from the Cheshire market town to play here . |
| 15 | Since the 16th century legislation has established an inquisitorial form of investigation into the dealings and assets of bankrupts which is calculated to yield potentially incriminating material , and in more recent times there have been many other examples , in widely separated fields , which are probably more numerous than is generally appreciated . |
| 16 | Since he became leader , there have been many other occasions when his reluctance or inability to get through his homework have let him down and embarrassed his party . |
| 17 | There have of course been many other television programmes which have touched on the subject of mental handicap , including series such as ‘ Let's Go ’ , a weekly series for the mentally handicapped launched in 1981 , and followed by a second series in 1983 , and ‘ Accident of Birth ’ , a series mainly for parents and people working with the mentally handicapped broadcast in early 1982 . |
| 18 | In response to this , there have been many ingenious proposals relating to the introduction of scientifically relevant phenomena . |
| 19 | Although there have been many marvellous performances that have meant a great deal to me , the most important to me , without doubt , was the only time I heard my first teacher sing . |
| 20 | There had been many unsuccessful attempts to find a satisfactory solution but none of them , unlike the present invention , actually worked . |
| 21 | There have been many conflicting ideas and suggestions about what should be done . |
| 22 | Recently , however , there have been many new initiatives ; the school has moved away from a ‘ basic skills ’ approach and now provides a much more relevant and purposeful curriculum . |
| 23 | Among them must have been many new men pushing up from below . |
| 24 | Since the 1972 Act , there have been many additional authorities to Brussels through European Court judgments , individual directives and the implications and effects of the Single European Act , quite apart from the effect of the treaties which we have agreed in the past two days but which have yet to be ratified by Parliament . |
| 25 | This point helps to explain why there do not appear to have been many actual dismissals for pilferage ( we assume that we would have been told if there had been an abnormally high incidence of these ) , but we would still have expected there to be some if pilferage has been common , particularly since store security is not under Fred 's control . |
| 26 | There have been many classic occasions down the years , one as far back as 1973 when the writer of this piece was a makeweight speaker at a Yorkshire Post literary lunch in Harrogate , attended by four hundred elegant people — mostly well-heeled , middle aged ladies in all their finery . |
| 27 | Though the prestige of Aldfrith 's descent from the Uí Néill will not have been negligible , he was born out of wedlock and there must have been many legitimate sons of other Northumbrian lords who claimed descent from Ida . |
| 28 | There have been many positive developments , a large number of them led by this country such as the introduction of the single market . |
| 29 | I think there are various strategies that you can adopt with children , I think the first and most obvious is work through the educational system , through schools and there 's been many excellent school 's programmes developed ! |
| 30 | There had , to be sure , been many cross-border investments , but in the main these were to replace imports and were based on exploiting competitive advantage only within a particular country . |