Example sentences of "[adv] many [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect most women of your age have had lovers ; not so many would admit it . ’ |
| 2 | Specifically , it is argued that a Community with twenty or twenty-five members would need substantial reform in order to operate effectively : agreement among so many would prove too elusive under present forms . |
| 3 | I am so happy , as I never expected to be , knowing that he wishes to marry me , has not rejected me as soiled goods as so many would have done . |
| 4 | Indeed for me the conference was a great opportunity to meet so many CA staff , whose vitality and unity , in a common cause impressed me . |
| 5 | There never was a time when so many could get about so quickly , comfortably , and with so little effort as we can now ( except when they were infants in arms ) . |
| 6 | Only so many can engage at leisure with Indian or Mexican society . |
| 7 | I have heard of considerably larger numbers being taken by other people but when I hear such tales I am inclined to wonder how it is that so many can become so jammed together without suffocating in such a small hole . |
| 8 | They have n't got the ability … y'know , to succeed in a system that by definition says so many will fail . |
| 9 | Sheltering in shanties , they have now been advised not to eat fish ( so many will go hungry ) and to boil water ( yet they can scarcely afford fuel ) . |
| 10 | So many will take advice and consult and spend themselves in getting man 's opinion without hearing God . |
| 11 | Not many would want to . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've a great deal to thank-you for , Edward , ’ he said , ‘ not many would have helped me the way you did or taken me in the way I looked that night . ’ |
| 13 | But I grant you there are not many would have gone to the trouble . |
| 14 | ‘ There 's not many would have stayed in one piece like that . |
| 15 | Not many would argue with that . |
| 16 | Looking for two points not many can do at meetings as long as you pass it up there 's two points , two important points that we have n't talked about so far and there in the reasons why we do it they 're in there somewhere . |
| 17 | Not many can say that for every facet of College society — study , sport , social activities , and so on . |
| 18 | The Government is taking £140 off your Community Charge bills this year and also many will benefit from the new Community Charge Reduction Scheme . |
| 19 | Among Tories , more than three times as many would want Mr Major to negotiate with the Liberal Democrats as with the Unionists . |
| 20 | The village of Swanland , approximately seven miles west of the city of Kingston-upon-Hull , has since the 19th century been considered one of the most attractive areas in North Humberside , or East Yorkshire as many would prefer . |
| 21 | With regular partial water changes , and plenty of food , they will grow quite quickly and will need thinning out as many will grow at different rates and need more space . |
| 22 | Four times as many will want to get in , making it a ticket tout 's dream . |
| 23 | If 70,000 dared to go on the streets feeling they might be beaten up or worse , how many might demonstrate if that fear is removed ? |
| 24 | And of such professors , how many would rest content with the conclusion that Pound reached in 1918 : ‘ A critic must spend some of his time asking questions — which perhaps no one can answer . |
| 25 | At the outset R.S. had no idea of how many staff would relocate or how many would choose redundancy . |
| 26 | How many would want to go to one before May before the exam ? |
| 27 | Right , and how many would want to go to both ? |
| 28 | And er if you went quietly back after putting the feed out say before dark , put the feed down there and you went quietly back and watched them , you would n't believe how many would have been there . |
| 29 | How many would lose their lives to his daughter 's marauding unrest , he wondered guiltily , and at whose door would the fault ultimately lie ? |
| 30 | Do reme , can yo , can I , can you guess at how many would say I do n't know ? |