Example sentences of "many [Wh pn] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet among those who watched them on television screens as they did so were many who had been born before there were aeroplanes , and even before the motor-car had become a familiar object . |
| 2 | It is perhaps worth remembering that the Beveridge Report was published as early as 1942 ; it embodied the aspirations of so many who had been disappointed by the failure of Lloyd George 's ‘ land fit for heroes to live in ’ to materialise . |
| 3 | In rural areas villagers had been detained and their houses had been burned in connection with land disputes , names were given of people held for up to 10 years without charge , and many who had been detained spoke of beatings in prison . |
| 4 | Elsewhere , typhus carried off many who had been weakened by starvation ; in Chesterfield the pestilence was almost certainly bubonic plague . |
| 5 | It was not only that enclosures forced some small-holders into the ranks of the landless and into wage-dependency for the first time ; it was also the case that many who had been able partly to support themselves from small-holdings supplemented by access to common grazing for a beast or two lost that element of independence . |