Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] [be] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This house is rather big and your duties would be many . |
| 2 | In other passages , however , the symbolism of grass is completely different : in Isa 44.4 , though the text is open to doubt , the redeemed are to spring up like grass ; in Isa 66.14 restored Israel will find its bones flourish like grass , in Job 5.25 Eliphaz promises Job that his descendants will be many and his offspring like ( i.e. as plentiful as ) the grass of the earth . |
| 3 | Very large lenses up to 50 m thick form extensions of the permafrost , giving rise to steep-sided hills called pingos which in many tundra regions provide the highest relief Pingos may be many centuries old and covered with permanent vegetation . |
| 4 | Difficulties can be many , at the top of the list being the number of items to be catalogued . |
| 5 | In bibliographic applications the number of possible attributes may be many thousands . |
| 6 | Surely , if scientists , whose work is in the public domain and open to critical scrutiny , are prone to distortion , the police must be many times more vulnerable , seeing that police investigations are far less structured and not at all open to outside scrutiny . |
| 7 | It 's the first of what the prison hopes will be many steps forward . |