Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often I find that I am many hundreds of metres behind the party when I escape from the trance of pattern-watching and childhood recall . |
| 2 | ‘ I am many things , señor . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been told I was many things in my life , but too hasty … |
| 4 | Ye are many — they are few . |
| 5 | You are many people for Otto ! ’ |
| 6 | Kelly would understand , of course , but she was many miles away , working on location , and Shae did n't even have a contact number . |
| 7 | We are many , but we are unarmed . |
| 8 | We know we 're many steps down the social scale from the Santis family . |
| 9 | Miller pointed out that ‘ Oranges , jesmines , capers , olives and pomegranites … are annually brought from Italy and , if skilfully managed , very few of them miscarry , notwithstanding they are many times three or four months out of the ground . ’ |
| 10 | The smart or intelligent chargers tend to take over the user 's responsibility , detecting the amount of charge needed and eliminating any memory problems , but as stated previously , they are many time more expensive than the standard chargers . |
| 11 | They are many , the Seven few . |
| 12 | Reports of sea serpents say they look like smooth snakes , but they are many times larger than the biggest snakes on earth : the longest seem to be about 200 metres . |
| 13 | It is with more pleasure that I thank all those who have helped my ideas about the Lorenz equations to develop ; they are many , but I must mention particularly Peter Swinnerton-Dyer , Bob Williams and Paul Glendinning . |
| 14 | They are many thanks , thank you . |
| 15 | I 'm sure , but they 're many of them are concerned about their budget because they live off a fixed pension |
| 16 | Among the papers that the novelist left behind him were many feverously scribbled notes , showing changes that he intended to make , and new episodes that , given the opportunity , he would have worked into his narrative . ’ |
| 17 | These thoughts could always be called up , as they were many years later in his attack on Churchill . |
| 18 | He announced that he was prepared to admit that the invisible undetectable substance existed on the moon , but insisted that it was not disturbed in the way suggested by his rival but in fact was piled up on top of the mountains so that they were many times higher than they appeared through the telescope . |
| 19 | Arguments against it are many and convincing : it is wrong to require a woman to depend on a man , particularly when he has no legal or moral obligation to maintain her . |
| 20 | If you struck lucky on one of those multi-dialled combination locks on bank safes , it would seem a very major miracle , for the odds against it are many millions to one , and you would be able to steal a fortune . |
| 21 | Along the road leading to it were many altars and shrines and there are also remains which could belong to a theatre . |
| 22 | So it 's many inputs to one answer . |
| 23 | Also I think you 'd find that the erm er although , now I 'm suggesting you do this , but if you went through the Independent and you counted the erm number of different words the total vocabulary , I think you 'd find it 's many many many many many many many times bigger than the |
| 24 | It is many things — the lethargy of the travel , and all that space . |
| 25 | IT IS many years since I looked at Punch for anything except the advertisements . |
| 26 | It is many years since I last heard VW 's restless setting of words taken from Chapter I of Ezekiel , which in context form a strangely appropriate backdrop to the work 's actual inspiration , A Vision of Aeroplanes . |
| 27 | What 's left of it is many yards under water now . |
| 28 | In fact , the United Kingdom has never had , in the course of this century , a simple two-party system and it is many years since the party eventually forming government secured a majority of primary votes cast , let alone the votes of a majority of electors . |
| 29 | Measuring 30 centimetres or so across , it is many times bigger than the largest known trilobite and its armour no longer shows any signs of segmentation . |
| 30 | It fills him with strange satisfaction to think that while the great illumination of the Market Square is quite invisible from this point , the little lamps of Iron Green can be seen glowing through a gap beyond Albert Road , It is many years now since he has visited the lower end of Odborough , for his legs will not carry him up and down the hill , and he growls like a dog if anyone suggests a car . |