Example sentences of "[vb -s] many [noun pl] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The plan contains many elements of the prognosis of the anarchical factor ( e.g. the estimate made of crops , of the amount of grain available as a commodity , the amount of commodities represented by peasant production generally , and consequently , the estimate of prices ) , and this prognosis becomes the starting point for this or that directive .
2 This paper was probably circulated amongst those interested and Miller 's advice followed , as the Register of Premiums and Bounties of the Royal Society of Arts contains many awards for the cultivation of madder , particularly in East Anglia and Kent , during the years 1755–67 .
3 In the two I 've just mentioned you will find a character who lives many years without the benefit of some vital knowledge , something they really needed to know .
4 Folasade has many plans for the future .
5 Pragmatism thus has many continuities with the positivist and evolutionary theories which have influenced the functionalist style in public law .
6 The method has many advantages for the modelling of the structure of polymers and composite materials .
7 A laser ‘ knife ’ has many advantages over the scalpel — it can make a much finer cut , and causes less bleeding .
8 Each of them has many adherents in the discipline , and at first sight it looks as if the approaches are in direct competition .
9 Derek Piggott , my instructor/demonstrator who has many hours on the Chevron , informed me that climb rate can be increased considerably by using thermal activity , and he showed very adequately the power off characteristics of the aircraft by stopping the engine and demonstrating the very impressive 17 to 1 glide ratio .
10 The Moon has many effects on the Earth and its creatures .
11 He has many servants in the world , and the Dark Lord Medoc is one of them .
12 The British sign language we use here has many similarities to the sign language used in Scotland and England and I have little difficulty in talking to deaf people on the mainland .
13 However , there is also the smaller PKT 14E , which has many uses for the home improver or hobbyist .
14 It is no good pretending that you are ever going to do fine woodwork with this All Purpose saw , but for rough cutting and shaping it has many uses around the house .
15 However , for every successful adoption of a new crop or new variety of crop it is certain that there were many more failed attempts at innovation , for the African physical environment places many difficulties in the path of farmers .
16 Now the Police Complaints Authority says many calls from the public about the killing may not have been documented or followed up .
17 This definition raises many questions for the choreographer .
18 The dramatic change in the political structures of the former Soviet republics raises many questions about the development of group politics in these areas .
19 This imbalance raises many questions about the behaviour of a Conservative government towards different areas of the country .
20 This raises many questions about the extent to which any depreciation charge could yield a useful measure of this use but , given the policy of fixed depreciation charges imposed by Government , it would be hard to see how these charges would be capable of measuring actual usage of assets ( a point which is at the heart of the difference between the two accounting traditions ) .
21 The rise of unemployment up to 1986 raises many questions about the distribution of income in society , which we shall consider in the final part of this chapter .
22 Lithium exerts many effects in the body .
23 It exerts many effects upon the body .
24 This is because the barn is often the largest of the non-domestic buildings of the farmstead and the large volume which it encloses offers many options for the creation of a comfortable and characterful dwelling .
25 Roget 's Thesaurus offers many approximations to the word ‘ fine ’ , as well as a few phrases in the connexion .
26 The computer offers many possibilities to the geographer who does not aspire to the world model .
27 This conclusion directly contradicts many assertions in the literature ( Glue , 1971 ; Avery , 1977 ; Mayhew , 1977 ) that there is no loss of bone during digestion of prey by barn owls .
28 Curiously enough , the Evangelical concern to eradicate the devil in the child finds many echoes in the hygienist movement which dominated the twenties and thirties of our own century .
29 Berenson appears many times in the book — thinly disguised as ‘ Somberen ’ , when Joni has a particularly barbed comment to make about him .
30 The historical and comparative evidence , as well as the evidence drawn from our own society , presents many difficulties in the way of reaching any clear decisions on these matters .
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