Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His background has been catalogued on many occasions and trawled by the man himself with the single-mindedness which characterizes all his causes . |
| 2 | These disciplines have been joined by many others from different fields , from Law to Business Studies , to Social Administration , to Gender Studies , to Forestry , Religious Studies and Natural Resources . |
| 3 | Sometimes this research was located in areas where the effects of human activity had been sustained for many centuries . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Interventions by schools to reduce smoking have been undertaken for many decades , although little attention has been given to assessing their effectiveness . |
| 6 | Up-to-date valuations of such properties had not been undertaken for many years previously , partly because of business people 's complaints that any revaluations of commercial properties could inevitably lead to an increase in their total tax bill . |
| 7 | And actually have been to support on many occasions in her constituency . |
| 8 | These major companies are very stable , with an organisational structure which has been developed over many years and , like the Japanese Zaibatsu , they have a large-core business which is able to withstand changes in the market place . |
| 9 | It may be related to the size , complexity and nature of the company 's operation and therefore to the organisational structure which has been developed over many years . |
| 10 | While case management has empirical referents which have been developed over many years ( largely in the USA ) care management has , until recently , had none . |
| 11 | The use of sacred measure and proportion has been developed by many researchers to postulate a geometrical pattern across the land , extending Watkins ' ley theory into wider concepts of ‘ landscape geometry ’ , and we have already looked at the work of Tyler , Lawton and Koop in exploring wider patterns . |
| 12 | This method has been taught for many years and I do not think that pilots who have learned to do it this way need bother to change . |
| 13 | Population decline has been halted in many areas since the mid-1960s to its present level of 346,000 , with employment in manufacturing trebling in this period and total employment growing by one-half ( Shucksmith and Lloyd 1982 ) . |
| 14 | On being asked about the condition of the front door and windows , he admitted they had n't been painted for many years and that the door had more or less reached the end of its life , and showed it . |
| 15 | Canteiro is a wine which has been matured over many years without going into an estufa , and it is of a good age . |
| 16 | Credit managers have traditionally been regarded in many companies as little more than debt collectors , albeit often highly effective ones . |
| 17 | But the conditions in Greek state psychiatric hospitals have been exposed for many years . |
| 18 | Much will depend on how it seeks to solve the long-running debate about merging income tax and the national insurance system ; whether benefits , including pensions , are to be universal or selective ; and , if selective , how the state is to deal with obligations to people who have been contributing for many years to what they were told was national insurance . |
| 19 | Well Done , all those Teachers and Class members who have been contributing in many ways , and keep it up in 1985 . |
| 20 | Although the system had been modified in many villages so that the strips fell together instead of being widely separated , everybody , including squatters , had access to the common land and was able to earn some sort of a living from it , and this could be supplemented seasonally by labouring or harvesting for a bigger landowner . |
| 21 | All of Ptolemy 's original groups are still to be found on our maps , though their boundaries have been modified in many cases . |
| 22 | The true facts of the matter have been clouded by many cases where the exact nature of the staccato did not greatly matter and where consequently Mozart made no deliberate effort to distinguish the two types . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It has been earned over many years through dedicated teamwork and attention to detail . |
| 25 | YWA 's answer to the Guest Tea has been the annual Treasure Hunt and Barbecue which has been enjoyed by many Edenderry members and friends in recent years . |
| 26 | Apart from the obvious benefits to those who , like myself , suffer with-gall stones , I was surprised to read so many other benefits to health that had been enjoyed by many volunteers . |
| 27 | A further example is when an organisation which has been trading for many decades finds itself increasingly out of touch with the market and the organisation 's internal culture and style is no longer appropriate to the markets it is trying to address . |
| 28 | Experiments aimed at investigating this issue have been reported by many workers ( e.g. Anderson , O'Farrell , Formica , and Caponigri 1969 ; Anderson , Wolf , and Sullivan 1969 ; Dexter and Merrill 1969 ; Bouton and Bolles 1979 ; Lovibond et al . |
| 29 | The gall bladder epithelium has been considered for many years to be an excellent model for the study of the physiological properties of epithelial cells and in particular ion transport . |
| 30 | The subject of art has for too long been considered by many teachers as a frill , — there it is on the time-table , a compulsory subject ; some schools give it a period a week , some a double period , and some even more . |