Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once they dominated the countryside , but intensive farming led to many being ripped up and the sheer cost of maintaining them has seen many fall into neglect . |
| 2 | Not that they 'd had many takers , no more than fifty , mostly scum from prison camps attracted by the offer of good food , women and money . |
| 3 | They 're bi-lingual , they do well at school and they 've made many friends . |
| 4 | ‘ They 've got many contacts there and it was quite easy for the management to arrange gigs . |
| 5 | Mick , the National Officer has been er , the link between these organizations and I hope that the er , Professional erm , Boxers ' Association will give some credit to the G M B in erm , establishing themselves and we hope , as an organization , that in the future that they can be successful and we can be sure they will be because they 've not only got the likes of Barry but they 've got many other , prominent er , boxers who will , I 'm sure , establish erm , the Association in a very er , positive fashion . |
| 6 | To the crew it was a routine trip and one they had made many times before by night . |
| 7 | They had made many Hollywood films here . |
| 8 | After a last stand further north , Europe 's finest army was destroyed ; although they had lost many men , the Norman nucleus survived . |
| 9 | The dogs had followed the line of the fence until it ended abruptly , whereupon they had glimpsed many more man-things up ahead . |
| 10 | They had investigated many murders before , but this was not a murder ; this was the destruction of the entire planetary system of government . |
| 11 | True , neither the mews house nor any stick of furniture in it had been his by law , but they had chosen many of the items together — she relying upon his artist 's eye , he upon her money to purchase whatever his gaze admired . |
| 12 | In passing she had mentioned once that she missed the fox terrier , Rex , they had had many years ago as children . |
| 13 | They had had many rows like this , and it was a measure of how far their relationship had come that Edward , while sometimes scorched by the depth of Erica 's cynicism , fought his corner without descending into rage and came back for more . |
| 14 | His wife had been an islander by birth and after she died he decided to live there where they had spent many happy holidays . |
| 15 | They had spent many thousands of pounds , first on building a fine new School , and then on equipping it and running it . |
| 16 | They were older , wiser ; they had learned many bitter lessons . |
| 17 | Indeed they had cultivated many English friends . |
| 18 | The local bureaucracies of the less developed regions have unfettered freedom in spending these funds , and they have made many disastrous mistakes . ’ |
| 19 | The family are not downhearted ; they have made many people across the country aware of the Trust and their work . |
| 20 | They have assisted many hon. Members , including myself , in fathoming the difficult procedure . |
| 21 | General practitioners are in a position to plan because they have survived many changes , and to fail to reappoint them on the basis of a local health policy ‘ whim ’ conflicts with individual patients ' rights in choosing their own general practitioner . |
| 22 | They have given many parties in their time , but on New Year 's Eve they have always gone out to the gatherings of others — sometimes to several gatherings in the course of the evening , and some years separately , not always meeting even for the magic chimes . |
| 23 | They have manufactured many heterocyclics ( currently synthesising pyridines , pyrimidines and triazines ) and some aliphatics . |
| 24 | Implicitly , they have accepted many of the criticisms made for more than a decade by Labour councils and civil libertarians : that a force which has dug itself in behind ramparts of elitist isolationism must begin to respond to demands of the public it serves and their political representatives . |
| 25 | But it is the dignity of the funeral parlour , tempered by the knowledge that they have killed many people for their dream . |
| 26 | For instance , they have challenged many aspects of the Edwards Report on National Parks and are also fighting hard to resist the ending of power boating on Llangorse Lake ( something on which our local branch feels strongly ) . |
| 27 | If , as this report suggests , they have replaced many of the main fuselage and wing members with titanium , rather than steel geometry , then we are dealing with a much lighter aircraft . |
| 28 | ‘ Their enthusiasm and commitment is simply tremendous and they have helped many people to find a new start in life . ’ |
| 29 | This is a very good pair : they have won many battles . |
| 30 | In the past they have brought many candidates together for an entire day of selection activities , which included written tests of their numerical and communication skills . |