Example sentences of "like [adv] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like so many peasant foods , the essence of pasta is its simplicity . |
| 2 | This particular accident , like so many others , would never have happened if just one of the dozen or so people at the launch point had recognised the danger and shouted ‘ stop ’ . |
| 3 | Cynics may scoff that he is yet another stiff-upper-lip , old-soldier type , having come like so many of the august men of the Club from a military background before moving on to sugar . |
| 4 | Like so many of Lonsdale 's ladies she is surprising ; yet she speaks to us with a directness that wipes out the centuries . |
| 5 | ‘ Like so many of High Top 's stock , Top Class is developing late . |
| 6 | Like so many women of her age , Belinda wanted her baby very much and felt that it was a miracle when she became pregnant . |
| 7 | Surely it is time we stopped talking of elephants as if they were a commodity to be traded , like so many cans of paint , and accept them for what they are , ancient and splendid fellow inhabitants of the earth who share with us the joys of close kinship bonds and grieve when they are severed . |
| 8 | ‘ Food poisoning ’ , for instance , shows the effect of the 44,000 cases of the ‘ runs ’ reported this year with a cartoon strip depicting bacteria like so many vengeful Smurfs . |
| 9 | Like so many in the New Zealand tour party , Fox has never experienced the intimidating atmosphere generated at the great sporting shrine and may have taken time to slip into the groove . |
| 10 | His being ‘ the Matthew Arnold of his time ’ again connects , through the scarecrow image , with the Hollow Men who , like so many of Eliot 's literary adversaries , are afflicted with a stuffed language , emptily ‘ poetic ’ , the degradation of great poetry — |
| 11 | By the 1920s Manupur , like so many other villages in Punjab , was dominated by the moneylending class who were Brahmins by caste . |
| 12 | Like so many American cars the Spirit is a seven-tenths machine . |
| 13 | ‘ Actually , ’ he said , ‘ it 's like so many things in life — something you go through with once , because you have to . |
| 14 | Like so many of the films that were to be made during the Second World War , The Four Just Men does n't only draw attention to the nature of the enemy ; it also presents an evocative picture of just what it is that is under threat — ‘ all the roads and rivers , fields add woods and hills that make up this funny old island . ’ |
| 15 | Like so many investors , Mr Tyson found himself having to go back to work to ease the financial strain he had hoped to avoid . |
| 16 | Alas , like so many things which get into the history books , it was n't quite like that . |
| 17 | The child is right , this escalator , like so many on the London Underground network , has not been in operation for months . |
| 18 | The house is tall , like so many Georgian Shropshire houses , and was probably built by a man from Ludlow . |
| 19 | Like so many of the problems threatening dolphins all over the world , the Chilean crab bait scandal is easily addressed . |
| 20 | THE current crackdown on Soviet press and television is , like so many of President Gorbachev 's policies , a probably unworkable muddle . |
| 21 | All this leaves Mr Major , like so many of his predecessors , earnestly trying to talk down wages . |
| 22 | Like so many of Mr Murdoch 's gambles , the potential pay-off of his stroll into California 's Silicon Valley is enormous — but too far away to help pay his debts today . |
| 23 | Like so many of the men now rising to leadership in poor countries , he has done a stint at the World Bank , and is regarded as capable . |
| 24 | They too were a family of skilled craftsmen and , like so many of the first two generations of South Wales industrial settlers , retained a small interest in country matters , raising pigs and often keeping a pony or two on the outskirts of their villages . |
| 25 | Like so many Permanent Secretaries , Ken was a substantial politician in his own right and knew every byway of Whitehall , in particular how to process decisions through the government machine . |
| 26 | Today , fortunately , that dictatorship , like so many others , has crumbled into dust , and Catalan literature and culture are flourishing . |
| 27 | Her father , like so many country parsons of his day , had interested himself , among other homely pursuits , in keeping chickens . |
| 28 | Computer science , though one of the younger disciplines , relies like so many others on mathematics , and this happy relationship works both ways . |
| 29 | Those hardy souls in the present century who ignore the mysteries and regard themselves as random atoms , moving purposelessly in a world of blind chance , must necessarily behave differently from those who , like so many in the nineteenth century , believed that they inhabited an ordered world in which they had moral duties to perform , even if these were obscurely glimpsed and seldom accomplished . |
| 30 | We tumbled down into the hole like so many Alices and gazed in wonder around us . |