Example sentences of "many [adj] [noun] [pron] [vb base] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , the body has many reserve capacities which ensure that vital functions can continue even when an organ is injured or diseased : there is more lung tissue than is normally required , there is reserve liver tissue , there are two kidneys , eyes and ears . |
| 2 | Care versus control , genericism versus specialism , authority versus self-determination , which no matter how many innovative structures we construct and what we call them , are never adequately resolved . |
| 3 | Although you may not have studied French before , you will be surprised at how many French words you know and how much you know about France . |
| 4 | An examination of the wide range of people involved , of the many different roles they play and of their varying involvement in or distance from the policy-making process will help to stress the importance of giving attention to implementation and to introduce the more theoretical discussion that is to follow . |
| 5 | ‘ In many Free Churches I fear that awe is an unknown factor ’ and ‘ some who sneer at elaborately worked altar-cloths would do well to cultivate the spirit of those by whom they were presented . ’ |
| 6 | Each time , count how many wild-type adults you find and how many pearl eye adults . |
| 7 | On the other hand the counsellor may be assisted by many physical signs which suggest that alcohol is a problem , such as finding lots of empty bottles around , or when an older person is found to be drinking at all times of the day , often alone and not as part of a social occasion . |
| 8 | My thanks also are due to Miss Mary Burkett and her staff at Abbot Hall , from whom I have had help and co-operation since the start of the survey in 1975 ; to Mr B. C. Jones and Miss S. J. MacPherson , County Archivists , of the County Records Office , who have given generous help and advice ; ; to Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby , whose book first aroused my interest in the stocking trade ; to my fellow members of the Lancashire and Lakes Guild of Spinners , Weavers and Dyers for encouragement and support ; to my granddaughter , Anne Allen , who took the photographs , ( except where otherwise stated ) ; to my daughter , Jan Hare , who typed the manuscript ; to my friends , Penelope Porter , Kathryn Allen and Mary Sutherland , who gave technical advice , reviewed text and read proofs ; Elizabeth Edwards and Kathleen Drummond for advice and information , and above all my thanks to the many kind people who live where there are galleries , and who have put up with my enquiries with such patience and kindness . |
| 9 | There are many lay people who share and live out of the same insight . |
| 10 | Being a large station , the many senior officers who come and go at Easton act as a constant and visible reminder to constables of the structures of power and authority in the station , and a prominent item in the conversations of ordinary policemen and women is complaints against ‘ the authorities ’ , which is an indexical category flexible enough to include everyone above their own level . |