Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] for many " in BNC.
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| 1 | They showed not only that for most elderly people the costs of community care were considerably lower than those of institutional care ( and that home care would therefore remain cost-effective for many even if service provision were greatly increased , when the alternative was admission to an institution ) , but also that community care was not necessarily cheaper , and that there were some elderly people for whom institutional care would be less expensive ( though not necessarily to be advocated solely on that account ) . |
| 2 | With good reason , the memory of the 1975–6 war became painful for many Palestinians . |
| 3 | The courts , together with a wooden pavilion of historic interest , were built around 1910 but lay derelict for many years until the Club revived them with a grant from the Village Association . |
| 4 | But exercise is an important part of keeping fit for many other reasons . |
| 5 | Oxfam has been trying to help the refugees er in the area , but Tony Jackson just back from Cambodia says it 's becoming harder for many to survive . |
| 6 | Two years later Harris and his wife Mary became residents of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution for Aged Freemasons in Croydon ; he had been an active Freemason since 1818 , and in 1849 had published a set of designs for lodge tracing boards , which became standard for many years . |
| 7 | Oh I 've done that for many a year |
| 8 | Mr Andrews cited the example of an A&E nurse who had done suturing for many years . |
| 9 | Inexpensive conversion-kits were made available for many Edison models of phonograph , and the new ‘ four-minute ’ cylinders remained in production until 1929 . |
| 10 | HOME ownership increased by a fifth and average prices trebled between 1979 and now but the story has turned sour for many homebuyers in recent years as mortgage arrears and repossessions soared . |
| 11 | However , owners are under no compulsion to sell and although land may be identified for development , it may in fact remain undeveloped for many years . |
| 12 | Land scheduled for development may remain undeveloped for many years , pending solutions to traffic problems . |
| 13 | A moment later the frenzied cadet pitched forward and skidded prostrate for many metres , his strengthened fingernails scratching sparks from the plates of the deck before he came to rest . |
| 14 | We 've used this for many years without any adverse effects . |
| 15 | Mr Sunman says : ‘ The true beauty of the Railside Revival wo n't become apparent for many years yet . |
| 16 | Some of the larger birds can remain stationary for many minutes and the poses they adopt are all interesting and therefore present easier subjects . |
| 17 | Erm , I know that for many , that people will find this very helpful . |
| 18 | The finest material may be carried for tens of kilometres down-wind , and some of it may even stay suspended for many months , eventually falling back to earth on the other side of the globe . |
| 19 | Yeah , and you 've been doing that for many many years , English |
| 20 | It was quite ridiculous and so very obvious that he was doing this for many dubious reasons of his own . |
| 21 | Gastric emptying tests with radiolabelled meals and gamma camera imaging have proved popular for many years in clinical research and physiological studies . |
| 22 | The presence of noise , however , seems natural for many economic environments where there is a discrepancy between planned and actual events . |
| 23 | The ‘ thirtysomething ’ syndrome seems responsible for many of her commissions — one woman has ordered a picture of her husband ‘ because he 's a successful , handsome man ’ , and she wants to ‘ get him while he 's till good-looking ’ . |
| 24 | Just as the first Venetians found that the water-logged islands of their lagoon , far from merely affording them protection from their enemies on land , also provided them with ideal access to the sea and with it immense possibilities of wealth and naval power , so it emerged in the course of human social evolution that the psychological mechanisms which had been necessary in socializing man also proved serviceable for many other enterprises and in time produced the great flowering of human culture which we see around us today . |
| 25 | In addition , a whole range of aspects of consumption , housing , education , shopping , transport , training , and so on , remain insufficient for many people living in the cities . |
| 26 | ‘ The Eastern Health Board also has to realise that for many people , the Royal is situated in a no go area , ’ the MP said . |
| 27 | Over the years the weather and man have been responsible for destroying parts of the forested areas and , although some re-afforestation has taken place , large areas have remained depleted for many years . |
| 28 | Interest charges became unbearable for many , while the co-operative workers ' existing homes — which were supposed to help pay off the loans — remained stubbornly unsold . |
| 29 | Now that bands like Extreme and Mr Big have had chart successes with songs featuring acoustic instruments the time would seem right for many players to make a first serious foray into the subtler side of rock . |
| 30 | My doubts have grown during the years I have been thinking about and then writing this book , but for the moment I will concede that for many scholars and teachers a clarion-call to defend ‘ literature as literature ’ would prove rousing and timely . |