Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] be in many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nizan 's literary and political activities are in many ways best understood as a contribution to what he would doubtless have designated as a " cultural revolution " . |
| 2 | The agricultural industry is in many ways exceptional : not least because of its relative freedom from formal controls . |
| 3 | Criticism which could be levelled at this study was in many ways similar to that of youth cultures . |
| 4 | On the technical side , remedial work is in many cases already on the way . |
| 5 | This process is in many ways analogous to deductive reasoning . |
| 6 | This group is in many ways similar to the elderly , except that they are less likely to be able to contribute to care from their own resources and are therefore more likely to receive a free service wherever they are placed . |
| 7 | This scenario is in many ways similar to Charles Handy 's Work Society , but , whereas Handy based his vision on his views about what values ought to prevail in post-industrial society , Gershuny 's picture is built up from an analysis of economic trends . |
| 8 | Though the members of this genus are in many respects typical ascaridoids , their biology is sufficiently varied for it to be necessary to consider each species separately . |
| 9 | Thus Marx 's model of historical development was in many respects only a sketch which left many problems unresolved . |
| 10 | It is thus not easy to refute the idea that cultures and outlooks dominated by oral modes , literacy and print , or electronic media are in many respects distinctive . |
| 11 | Public Relations is in many ways far more complex than advertising , because it functions over a wide spectrum of alternatives for a multitude of purposes . |
| 12 | The project which is evaluated in this report is in many respects a sign of the times . |
| 13 | The Crown 's servants in the sixteenth century were in many ways less effective as administrative instruments than had been their predecessors in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries . |
| 14 | We have already seen that the committee structure devised for this purpose was in many ways unsatisfactory but that some useful and interesting inservice activities did result from the project . |
| 15 | The ‘ theological bias ’ , the humanism , the anti-establishment propaganda , the ‘ declining ’ moral standards , and the increasing use of ‘ foul ’ language , for which Mrs Whitehouse continually criticised the BBC , were almost all to be found aplenty , she felt , in one particular television programme , and the battle over this series is in many ways illustrative of the wider battle between the NVALA and the Corporation at this time . |
| 16 | The Indian civil service was in many ways like a hospital , its people bound together by the struggle to survive in a hostile environment . |
| 17 | In the same year that the school seconded a member of staff to develop the school-industry relationship , our second secondment was in many ways closely related in that we released a member of staff with a brief about the development of a Record of Achievement and Experience ( RAE ) . |
| 18 | Although in the O'Keefe model there are indeed specific place cells ( and during the 1980s other researchers were able to identify , in monkeys , cells which fired in response to even more precise inputs , such as photographs of particular faces : the concept of a cognitive map is in many ways the precise antithesis of the ‘ cellular alphabet ’ model of behaviour offered by Kandel . |
| 19 | Phrases such as ‘ sick man of Europe ’ ; ‘ Winter of Discontent ’ ; ‘ who rules Britain ? ’ — these phrases are in many ways too well known . |
| 20 | However amenable to overseas influence Boiotia may have been in the prehistoric period ( p. 83 ) , classical , fourth-century and hellenistic Boiotia was in many respects deeply conservative and introverted . |
| 21 | His paradoxical logic is in many respects similar to the non-binary logical structures developed in France in the late 1960s to account for the peculiarities of literature and of narrative in particular ( see section 3.2 above ) . |
| 22 | More recently there was Geoffrey Prime , who worked in the very heart of GCHQ ( see Chapter 4 ) , and Michael Bettaney , an MI5 officer whose drunken and strange behaviour was in many ways reminiscent of Guy Burgess 's yet similarly went undetected until reported by a defector ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 23 | The current reforms are in many ways a logical development and strengthening of the Griffiths management philosophy , but the nub of the reforms — the creation of the quasi-market — is a radical new departure . |
| 24 | Before doing so , some longer-run historical trends need to be mentioned briefly , because implicit in much of the writing on the social creation of dependency is the belief that elderly people were in many ways more independent in a pre-welfare state age . |
| 25 | This alternative strategy is in many respects less coherent than Owen 's and it is this which helps to explain the fact that Roger 's approach is often misunderstood by those outside the unit . |
| 26 | This excellently Greek island is in many ways a sample of the successes and the continuing tribulations of the country as a whole . |
| 27 | Political attitudes towards press and radio in independent Tanzania are in many ways typical of those in newly independent African nations . |
| 28 | Women of the first group are in many ways utterly dissimilar from each other , differing in language , religion and customs ( see tables 1 and 2 ) , but their roles in the peasant societies they have come from have a lot in common . |
| 29 | Regrettably , the NHS dental service was in many ways so successful that most of the practices of my acquaintance depended entirely on NHS fees with only one or two patients willing to pay for the entire cost of treatment . |
| 30 | As Crocombe ( 1972 ) points out , agricultural practices across this widely-scattered area of small islands were in many ways comparable at the time of the European invasions . |