Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [adj] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In certain areas no figures were given for a good many parishes , even the values of some livings being omitted . |
| 2 | There has for a great many years been a link of friendship between the people of lslay , particularly of the Rinns , and Ballycastle in the north of Ireland . |
| 3 | The sacral horns appear in a great many images of religious significance . |
| 4 | As to the much discussed pearwood wall panels , Italo Rota explains : ‘ We were looking for a simple idea that would allow visitors who had already looked at a good many paintings to connect some of them with unfamiliar settings ; the art of memory tells us that it is easier to retain images in one 's head if one can link them to a specific space ’ . |
| 5 | When I was eighteen I came in contact with the Catholic Crusade which was a rather left wing Christian Socialist Organization and I found that their attitude to problems contained the answers for which I had been searching for a good many years tell me when you want me to raise something . |
| 6 | What happens next depends upon a great many things such as the shape of the solid , exactly where the blow was struck and so on . |
| 7 | This is not always so , but according to a great many sportsmen , their overconcentration on sport , often as a result of the encouragement of teachers , led to a neglect of academic work with the consequence that examination results failed to convey accurately what they felt to be their actual capability . |
| 8 | Each yoke carries a properly designed and built-in PTT button , unlike some of the Jubilee clipped-on afterthoughts I have seen on a great many Wichita and Lock Haven singles , with the associated ‘ curly cable ’ disappearing behind the lower instrument panel . |
| 9 | He exposes the vague way in which Read deploys scientific vocabulary , pointing out how much work had had to be done by a great many people and already popularized , before a literary critic could talk in this way . |
| 10 | But unlike a lot of us who think it will be severely abused for a good many years to come , new agers are optimistic . |
| 11 | This attractive mixture is found in a good many works of this time , particularly reliefs . |
| 12 | This common misconception is fostered and perhaps shared by a great many retailers . |
| 13 | Their tails wiggle furiously like suckling piglets in their effort to hold against a current many times bigger than them . |
| 14 | But they were evidently believed by a great many people . |
| 15 | The hillside had been quarried for a great many years . |
| 16 | Morel hunters in-the-know rarely reveal the locations of good hunting grounds , and the abundance of any year 's crop seems to depend upon a great many variables such as : how cold a winter preceded , how gradually did temperatures warm from winter to spring , does the soil have adequate moisture ? |
| 17 | She had been left outside a great many pubs on warm summer evenings while models and some younger aspiring painters had occasionally checked to see if she was still there . |
| 18 | Of course , you can change the fellow , as for instance Margaret Allingham did over a good many years with her Mr Campion , who started out as a form of imitation Scarlet Pimpernel and ended as an acute and compassionate observer of human follies . |
| 19 | Presses are easily obtained from a great many shops and are not very expensive , although if you wish you can make your own , or ask a handy friend to help out if you are not very practical . |
| 20 | They come in a great many varieties and can be mounted straight on to a ceiling , on to walls or on to tracks , and then pointed towards whatever needs special lighting . |
| 21 | Since this arises in a great many examples with help , one might well wonder whether the two infinitives do express different meanings here . |
| 22 | Avoiding the foods in question may be quite difficult , especially at school or with friends , and you may wish to reconsider other options , especially if your child is not affected all that severely or if he reacts to a great many foods . |
| 23 | Another point which should not be overlooked is that Committee papers are read by a good many Ministers who do not attend the meetings , and these papers are often the only means they have of keeping themselves abreast of developments in policy . |