Example sentences of "like many [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All Souls suffered like many Victorian churches from high , inaccessible valley gutters , which became clogged and allowed damp to seep into the building . |
| 2 | Beckford 's Fonthill ( Fig. 5 ) was one of these and , like many Victorian country houses , it was an individual 's dream imposed upon the land , not an outward and visible sign of commitment to it . |
| 3 | The concept of social representation is central to this intellectual revolution but , like many revolutionary symbols , it lacks a precise definition . |
| 4 | Like many right hon. and hon. Members in all parts of the House , I followed with a mixture of admiration and exasperation Lord Carrington 's attempts to negotiate a proper ceasefire , but watched with mounting anger the callous disregard for life and property cynically displayed by the federal forces . |
| 5 | Like many Islamic parties , the FIS used to get its money from Saudi Arabia , and criticise the barbarous treatment Mr Hussein meted out to his own Islamic opposition . |
| 6 | Like many tall men , he had a perpetually upright , weary look , as if he usually slept leaning in a corner . |
| 7 | But like many contemporary lawyers he combined this taste with a concern for current politics . |
| 8 | It is headed by Suresh Grover , who , like many associated with the organisation , has been active in radical Asian politics since the mid-1970s and the bitter campaign which followed the death of Blair Peach from a police truncheon blow in 1979 . |
| 9 | Like many untalented people , he was full of futile energy . |
| 10 | Like many industrial markets , the eurobond market has featured a variety of innovations as firms have sought actively to increase market share or create new markets by the introduction of attractive new financial products . |
| 11 | Like many radical religious figures in this period , Salmon ‘ crept out of the shell of Episcopacy ’ and , during the early and mid-1640s , passed through Presbyterian , Independent , and Baptist forms of worship . |
| 12 | Like many recent reforms in medical education the changes had started with the dean 's concern at the effects of the traditional course on the students in his faculty . |
| 13 | Like many European economies , Austria faces a difficult year ; its close links with the ailing German economy may give it a worse time than most . |
| 14 | Few of those who can read actually believe what is said even in the more responsible newspapers ; like many Middle Easterners they prefer the racy , outlandish explanation . |
| 15 | It seems clear that the USSR , like many developing countries , has been revising its opinion about the nature of what bargaining with firms entails . |
| 16 | It is however also clear that the concept of legitimate expectations , like many legal concepts , can be used in more than one way ; it does not have to be given a restrictive interpretation . |
| 17 | I suppose a wife should consider her husband 's work before her own happiness , ’ Penelope agreed , for like many modern young women she had the right old-fashioned ideas about men and their work . |
| 18 | LIKE many other plants , asparagus seems to have got a second wind . |
| 19 | But until the early fifties Manupur , like many other villages , was hardly affected by them . |
| 20 | So , like many other parents in her situation , she decided to fight her own case . |
| 21 | To an observer Wexford might be thought only to be sitting , like many other inhabitants of Kingsmarkham , waiting for the storm to break . |
| 22 | It was an interesting thought , to learn something in order to forget it ; as Fräulein Silber had said , like learning how to ride a bike , but like many other things , too , learning to play a musical instrument for instance . |
| 23 | The son of a labourer from Grenada 's sister island of Carriacou , which he represented in parliament for nearly 30 years , he cut his political teeth , like many other Caribbean leaders , working at the giant Lago oil refinery on Dutch-ruled Aruba in the 1940s . |
| 24 | But like many other paternalistic firms , it may have to become a little meaner to stop its past from handicapping its future . |
| 25 | Like many other particulars , James and John are both men ; ‘ this ’ and ‘ that ’ may both be triangles . |
| 26 | Undomesticated dogs , like many other wild animals , do not expect to eat according to a rigid schedule . |
| 27 | Like many other provincials who took too many chances , he was pursued by local officials and , again like many before him , he was drafted into the army . |
| 28 | Freya , like many other girls who wrote to me , mentions her low opinion of herself as leading to , or contributing to , her anorexia . |
| 29 | Like many other aspects of Nez Perce design , it demonstrates a strong Crow influence |
| 30 | Like many other things in the Community , however , the impetus came more from the internal tensions within the Community , and from the self-interest of its members than from loftier aims . |