Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] be many " in BNC.
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| 1 | He once told me not to be afraid as my death was many years off and would come in a way I least expected . |
| 2 | Of the latter it was said that ‘ their business is many secrets ’ . |
| 3 | This was not obvious to most people in the later nineteenth century , and the general effect of the Second Law was to encourage the gloomy belief that in time the universe would die the heat death of general tepidity : that the universe would see Victorians and their foreseeable descendants out , its death being many million years away , was little consolation to believers in progress , who saw it all stopping in the distant future . |
| 4 | The sources of his inspiration were many — ranging from Irish folklore and custom to the politics of international socialism — but his voice was uniquely his own ; in the words of Eavan Boland , ‘ no one else has quite had his themes ; no one else has quite ventured on his enquiries ’ . |
| 5 | The disadvantages this brings to us , our patients , and our practice are many . |
| 6 | Fresh food Much of our food is many days old . |