Example sentences of "[adv] many [noun pl] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 So many chefs feel their restaurant managers fail to do this adequately .
2 The European Parliament and Commission , where so many decisions affecting our audience 's lives are made , are further prime candidates for coverage .
3 There were so many thoughts entering my mind , everything from looking back to my car accident to thinking about how hard I have been training . ’
4 Mr Peters asks the highly relevant question : why do so many workers leave their talents at the factory gate ?
5 Mr Peters asks the highly relevant question : why do so many workers leave their talents at the factory gate ?
6 So many expressions crossed his dark face and even when he was amused there was a sort of hard sensuality about him .
7 So many men answered her ad she had n't replied to all of them yet ; and the dating agency supplied a steady stream of potential partners .
8 IT was common knowledge the come the new law changes they would almost certainly include the experimental decision to award the put-in following a maul going nowhere to the defending side , so why are we getting so many whingers making their thoughts known whenever they can get their name in print .
9 Not many women reach her years and have as much — for everything he can imagine her wanting he hastens to provide ; and it is bestowed as if she were a young and lovely creature at her first ball , and when he helps her down the stairs or into a taxi — for she is getting frail — he turns her into Gloriana .
10 Over two thirds of Japanese car workers operate in multi-skilled teams , compared with just 10 per cent in the UK , and the land of the risen yen puts in two and a half times as many hours training its new workers in those skills .
11 How many times had my heart sunk when I asked if we could go somewhere or try something new in our poems and he had answered with the excusing phrase ‘ I guess not ’ ?
12 How many planets has our sun got that we know about because there might be some we do n't know .
13 How many customers did your dad have ?
14 It 's extraordinary how many businesses man their front lines with speaking voices that fail to give the customer or client any sense of status ( see Chapter Nine ) .
15 How many birds did my true love send to me on the twelfth day of Christmas ?
16 How many insects does your spider feed on each day ?
17 How many children has your wife ? ’
18 Not that Paracelsus always found the right ones : One wonders how many unfortunates owed their demise to his prescription of mercury to clarify the spleen .
19 SIR — I wonder how many readers share your near-reverence for Nelson Mandela ( editorial , April 7 ) ?
20 How many gallons does your pond hold ? in I asked .
21 In order to recast the problem , however , we need a deeper understanding of the divide between the two approaches , and must enquire why many individualists believe their view to be a decisive refutation of holism , while holists deny that it makes any headway at all .
22 Although often absent from his diocese on the King 's business , Andrewes proved a conscientious bishop at a time when many bishops took their duties lightly .
23 This year the Wiltshire County Council has closed Larkhill Track , an old drove road near the stones where many travellers park their vans .
24 Too many things demanded his attention at the same rime .
25 ‘ One of the things that worries me is too many parents allow their kids to see videos classified 15 or 18 .
26 Too many firms begin their planning by looking internally " indeed , some never look beyond internal issues .
27 Far too many States satisfy their own little parochial requirements by confining the circulation of their accident reports to their own government departments while the rest of the world can go hang and learn its own lesson by suffering a similar accident .
28 Coun Graham Morris , who represents Murton on Easington District Council , claims too many companies change their original schemes once they have got planning permission and is pressing for the matter to be brought to the attention of the Department of the Environment .
29 Burn up too many calories catching your food and you simply need more food to replace them .
30 He would n't be able to follow , not for many , many minutes ; too many cars blocked his way , parked haphazardly .
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