Example sentences of "[vb past] many [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friedlander used many of the formal devices he developed during the earlier series but also conveyed the different working environment of a new , light industry . |
| 2 | I used many of the ship 's ropes too , and in the end my fence was as strong as a stone wall . |
| 3 | We visited many of the places associated with the fugitive , during his travels round the Outer Hebrides after the disaster at Culloden in 1746 , including the South Uist birthplace of Scotland 's most noted heroine , Flora Macdonald . |
| 4 | ‘ This is one of the Australian birds ’ , noted Gould in his Handbook , ‘ which particularly attracted the notice of the earlier voyagers to that country , by nearly every one of whom it is mentioned as being very plentiful on all the islands in Bass 's Straits , and so tame that it might be easily knocked down with sticks or even captured by hand ; during my sojourn in the country I visited many of the localities above mentioned , and found that , so far from being still numerous , it is almost extirpated ; I killed a pair on Isabella Island , one of a small group near Flinder 's Island , on the 12th January 1839 . ’ |
| 5 | They even attacked art — especially ‘ modern art ’ — but while they made fun of the pre-War Cubists , Expressionists and futurists , they borrowed and transformed many of the principles and techniques of these earlier movements . ’ |
| 6 | These were looked after by the Board of Works — the lineal descendant of the Office of the King 's Works , which built many of the castles and palaces which its successor bodies , including Historic Scotland , now care for . |
| 7 | They provided many of the resources for the celebrations and allowed the students to proceed as they wished with few officials presiding over events . |
| 8 | Indeed , early exchange activities could not have done , since towns did not exist before late prehistoric times , and in later times periodic markets and fairs provided many of the opportunities for trade . |
| 9 | The conversion into owner-farmers of those who had hitherto been tenants or agricultural labourers provided many for the first time with genuine prospects of making a decent living , unburdened by debts , high rents or heavy taxes . |
| 10 | With the degree of mechanisation now found many of the hours claimed would be seasonal . |
| 11 | On a journey across the Trans-Siberian in 1977 , Eric Newby found many of the old stations still surviving . |
| 12 | Walsh found many of the councils quite backward . |
| 13 | While searching for the plants , I found many of the invertebrates . |
| 14 | Under G.V. Chicherin , who became head of the People 's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs ( Narkomindel ) in March 1918 , Soviet diplomacy rapidly readopted many of the methods of the old regime . |
| 15 | Left : Bolinders were supplied by James Pollock & Sons , Shipbuilders of Faversham , Kent , who also designed many of the motor canal boats in which the engines were fitted . |
| 16 | ‘ Mr Lilley is an arch-Thatcherite who personally designed many of the Tories ’ most extreme policies , ’ claimed Mr Mandelson . |
| 17 | ‘ He could only talk like that because Ken was religious himself , ’ said John Lahr , who recounted many of the Williams reactions in Prick Up Your Ears . |
| 18 | As unification approached many of the 4,250 prisoners in East German prisons rioted or went on rooftop protests or hunger strike in support of demands for a general amnesty on Oct. 3 . |
| 19 | Inside , the Richards lined many of the rooms with wainscots and the big bolection moulded panels of the time , mostly in the fashionable white wood , save for an oak room on the first floor . |
| 20 | Charles did not make extensive changes in the Lombard government , and retained many of the governors and administrators who had originally served under Desiderius . |
| 21 | It retained many of the traditional features of stations , including a clock-tower more than 100 ft. high , and large circulation areas adorned with tiles with Maori motifs , and frescos depicting New Zealand scenes . |
| 22 | In the fifth century Augustine retained many of the bold and dramatic metaphors of his contemporaries , but moved towards a view of atonement in which Christ the mediator between God and man was pre-eminent . |
| 23 | The case made by Cartwright , Travers and other Puritan divines was that the Church of England retained many of the errors of Rome . |
| 24 | White excelled in this role and for the rest of his life retained many of the attributes of the old-fashioned schoolmaster . |
| 25 | Its forceful statement of British sovereignty offended many in the Foreign Office , which is more communautaire . |
| 26 | Perot was also damaged by his own political naïveté , as for example on July 12 when he addressed the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People — his first major campaign appearance before a black audience — and offended many in the audience by the insensitivity of his remarks , which included references to " you people " . |
| 27 | Rising professional status involved a negotiation of establishment culture , and Hill dropped many of the public trappings of his evangelical background — embracing Anglicanism and sending his son to Eton and Oxford . |
| 28 | In a sense , from the point of view of the information given-birth , education , career , books written , pious foundations endowed many of the biographies are , mutatis mutandis , not unlike those in Who 's Who.a If the English reader of Who 's Who can flesh out the bare bones almost as a matter of instinct , however , to do the same for the Ottoman ulema is rendered almost impossible by time and cultural distance . |
| 29 | Also from stock came many of the set dressings , including one latticed wall divider used in virtually every episode for a different function . |
| 30 | The likes of William Grist and G.F. Tabram were , in a way , the replacements of the clothier dynasties such as the Playnes , rapidly creating a business that utilised many of the area 's mills just as the clothiers had done before them . |