Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it was , the chantry duties of the guilds had been in steady decline since the early fifteenth century , so that by 1547 the majority had for many years been looked upon as burial societies . |
| 2 | The Hungarians acceded to the throne of Croatia in 1102. and the link remained through many vicissitudes until the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire in 1918 . |
| 3 | Nash , a scrupulous and sensitive antiquarian , tells us what happened next : ‘ The body , I believe , is perfect , as it has never been opened : we thought it indelicate and indecent to uncover it ; but observing the left hand to lie at a small distance from the body , we took off the cerecloth , and found the hand and nails perfect , but of a brownish colour : the cerecloth consisted of many folds of coarse linen , dipped in wax , tar , and perhaps some gums : over this was wrapt a sheet of lead fitted exactly close to the body . ’ |
| 4 | The freedom to experiment , to organise classrooms in a way which supported and encouraged children 's learning , and which incidentally ( though not haphazardly ) covered the key areas of the curriculum led to many innovations . |
| 5 | The National Children 's Bureau 's parent education and support project identified a number of trends affecting parents in the 1980s ; for example , the pressure on parents as a result of our increasing knowledge of child development and society 's high expectations of the parental role ; the tendency for professionals to undermine parents ' self-confidence with their expertise ; the isolation felt by many parents with young children ; the need for information and knowledge , for social and practice skills , and for self-awareness and understanding of how their values affect the way in which they bring up their children ( Pugh and De'Ath , 1984 ) . |
| 6 | Despite assurances from US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney that only the Okinawa and German weapons would be destroyed at Johnston , the fear persisted in many Pacific countries that the USA would abandon plans to build incinerators on the American mainland and would use the Johnston facility much more widely than had been hitherto suggested . |
| 7 | It requires even more time and a visit to a hypnotherapist until she can reclaim the knowledge that the abuse lasted for many years . |
| 8 | That night the Prime Minister and the King spoke for many hours . |
| 9 | The head did in many cases establish , however , that many of the criticisms were not untypical of other schools in the borough — or indeed of comprehensive schools in general . |
| 10 | For all that there 's no denying the distaste felt by many London lawyers for tactics . |
| 11 | As was intimated in the introduction , although there is little evidence to suggest that sexual behaviour changed greatly in the period , the feeling remained for many people at the time that this was nevertheless what was happening . |
| 12 | However , Foreign Minister Gyula Horn on March 12 expressed the concern felt in many quarters internationally that the secession of Soviet republics might jeopardize Soviet reforms , and that the potential rapid disintegration of the Soviet Union posed a threat to world peace and stability . |
| 13 | Its election campaign , focusing not so much on criticism of communist rule as on demands for a redefinition of Slovenia 's status within Yugoslavia , was attuned to the resentment felt by many Slovenes of the lack of political reform elsewhere in the country , of the hostility of the military leadership to Slovene reforms , and especially of Slovenia 's subsidizing the economies of the " backward " southern republics : with only 8 per cent of Yugoslavia 's population , Slovenia produced 20 per cent of its national product and 25 per cent of its exports , while paying nearly 4@1/2 times more in federal taxes to subsidize other republics than it received in federal finance programmes . |
| 14 | The conflagration raged for many hours throughout the town , spreading rapidly through buildings already torn open by the blast , and with not a single person left alive to check it . |
| 15 | She shares the heartache felt by many owners who lose their horses to thieves , often never to see them again . |
| 16 | My initial letter , addressed to headteachers and staff of Catholic schools in Strathclyde , outlining my background and intended role in the region led to many invitations to meet with people to share experiences . |
| 17 | It was very noticeable , particularly in England and Wales , that the ATB had in many cases failed to convince the older farmer of the benefits of training . |