Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] many [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PAMELA : Why sir , you have given me so many pleasant distinctions for a Monday — let it , I pray you , be Monday next . |
| 2 | Having fewer children , of course , gives rise to a situation which so many 20th-century parents will understand only too well : that one minute there are young babies in the house needing constant attention , while the next , in the twinkling of an eye it seems , Darby and Joan are staring around an empty house and having to re-learn the art of living with each other all over again . |
| 3 | Her role as homeless teenager , Mandy , in the TV Soap has made Nicola very aware of the vicious circle of joblessness and homelessness which so many young people have to face . |
| 4 | [ … ] Competition , to the equilibrium price theorist , turned out to refer to a state of affairs into which so many competing participants have already entered that no room remains for additional entry ( or other modification of existing market conditions ) . |
| 5 | Hence , the backlash to which so many poor devils have been exposed after a premature elevation to megastardom . |
| 6 | ‘ In the 22 years I have sat on the North Eastern Co-op 's board I can not recall a year in which so many negative factors have combined . |
| 7 | Not for her that studied aloofness which so many attractive women mistakenly affect . |
| 8 | SHORTLY after the Russians invaded , the famous Barrandov Studios , in which so many world-class directors had worked , were to be used for the making of a film called Factory Of Illusions , in which a young and idealistic graduate of the Film Academy arrives to find well-known film-makers of the New Wave drinking and whoring instead of making films , and almost succumbs to counter-revolution himself . |
| 9 | And the future of the ‘ supersoap ’ Eldorado , on which so many glittering careers were staked , in no longer in doubt . |
| 10 | He had for some time , in the instinctive darkness of his mind in which so many heterogeneous problems were circulating , been wondering how , in what undramatic , as it were casual , not yet significant context he might utter them . |
| 11 | A simple hydraulic fracturing technique has been applied to ten boreholes in the Masvingo area of Zimbabwe , in which there many low-yielding tube-wells . |
| 12 | Erm , what I 'm aiming to do is to show you as many different techniques as I know , er , and if you pick up two or three of them that 's absolutely terrific . |
| 13 | In a way I think Gwynn had one too many New Year 's Eve . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's this wretched love business — and I still think that Kemp was killed because he had one too many fancy woman . ’ |
| 15 | One too many short again John . |
| 16 | My parents called me Glen after the bandleader who took one too many cross-channel flights Swing was the music they 'd grown up with and courted to . |
| 17 | And so a strong tradition has grown up that teachers must know their pupils , care for them in a general way , interest themselves in their moral development , and give them as many educational opportunities as possible outside the class-room as well as in it . |
| 18 | If everything is for the best in Castlereagh , why are there so many out-of-court settlements in actions for damages brought by former detainees ? |
| 19 | Why are there so many visual areas ? |
| 20 | Why are there so many different interest rates ? |
| 21 | This unpleasant experience was alleviated by the company of his wife , who also brought with her so many domestic items that he says it was almost as comfortable as being at home ! |
| 22 | Quite amazing how the Queen Mother keeps on doing her so many public engagements . |
| 23 | It seems at first quite astonishing to learn that neither the inventory in Jacques 's marriage contract nor that made after death provides any evidence that he was a flute-player or maker ; they seem to contradict the generally held view that he was a maker - a view which is supported by an entry in von Uffenbach 's diary which records a visit he paid Jacques in 1715 : ‘ He [ Jacques ] led me into a tidy room and showed me there many beautiful transverse flutes that he himself makes and from which he wishes to gain special profit . ’ |
| 24 | You know , you can take it so many different ways , |
| 25 | I said of course you were deep in domesticity and waiting for the baby and she said that was what so many good students seemed to be choosing these days … " |
| 26 | I must congratulate that authority on doing what so many other Labour authorities refused to do . |
| 27 | Twenty-o twenty-two and a hundred and twenty-five I do n't propose to speak to because er they are closely related to Government amendments , but I shall talk about it in another respect , but er seventeen and eighteen are in the theme of what so many Noble Lords have said , including the Noble Lord , Lord , and that is the importance of the local people er being er on these er thes th these these new police authorities and I seek to remove er the five appointed or any appointed people er by the Secretary of State . |
| 28 | ‘ What habit of the brake or the burrow do you employ , Ser Niccolò , that you attract to yourself so many beautiful females ? |
| 29 | First find out how long the present syllabus has been in force and try to obtain for yourself as many past papers as possible set to that syllabus . |
| 30 | I strongly believe that parents should be properly informed about the policies and practices of their schools ; that they should have the means regularly to voice their opinions and should indeed be represented on the governing bodies of schools , yet I believe too that there are dangers in allotting them too many constitutional powers . |