Example sentences of "[noun] was [prep] many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Llanthony Warehouse was for many years a showroom and store for Western Trading Co . |
| 2 | Again , anyone like Daphne Sheldrick , who wrote The Orphans of Tsavo about the wild animals she reared in Tsavo National Park , Kenya , where her husband David was for many years the highly successful warden , knows that African elephant calves are easily tamed . |
| 3 | Criticism which could be levelled at this study was in many ways similar to that of youth cultures . |
| 4 | But difficult as the schism was for many workers and indeed activists to understand or justify , its far-reaching ramifications had already begun to emerge . |
| 5 | Agnes and Tommy Docherty 's marriage was in many respects typical of their generation and typical of their catholic upbringing in the west of Scotland . |
| 6 | This part of the dream was like many others I 'd had about him . |
| 7 | Moreover , a change from philosophy was in many ways to be desired , as it so often is . |
| 8 | Madeira wine was for many years the favourite wine of the Russian Court , and one of the Krohn family had been food-taster to the Tsar . |
| 9 | His apparent obsession with Swindon Town was in many respects the beginning of the end . |
| 10 | The club was a meeting place for musicians of his era , and Archer Street was for many years the centre of the British dance music business . |
| 11 | Henceforth socialist organisation in the universities was for many years weakened by division between ‘ socialist ’ — i.e. Communist-controlled or influenced-societies and Labour Clubs supporting the Labour Party . |
| 12 | Coleridge was in many ways far ahead of his time . |
| 13 | However amenable to overseas influence Boiotia may have been in the prehistoric period ( p. 83 ) , classical , fourth-century and hellenistic Boiotia was in many respects deeply conservative and introverted . |
| 14 | Maurice 's funeral was in many respects indistinguishable from Beatrix 's . |
| 15 | Evans says that the title of Gospel Oak was in many places conferred on to the tree that , ‘ in for instance the Suffolk village of Polstead , has long outlasted the ceremony ’ . |
| 16 | One of the organisers , Peter Goodwin , admitted that the day was in many ways depressing . |
| 17 | Regrettably , the NHS dental service was in many ways so successful that most of the practices of my acquaintance depended entirely on NHS fees with only one or two patients willing to pay for the entire cost of treatment . |
| 18 | The Indian civil service was in many ways like a hospital , its people bound together by the struggle to survive in a hostile environment . |
| 19 | The revival was in many ways only a relative one . |
| 20 | More recently there was Geoffrey Prime , who worked in the very heart of GCHQ ( see Chapter 4 ) , and Michael Bettaney , an MI5 officer whose drunken and strange behaviour was in many ways reminiscent of Guy Burgess 's yet similarly went undetected until reported by a defector ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 21 | There is much evidence to suggest that the American transformation was in many cases too sudden , too linked with immediately available federal grants , too concerned in fact with the importance of material provision rather than with steady and persistent thought and experimentation . |
| 22 | Thus Marx 's model of historical development was in many respects only a sketch which left many problems unresolved . |
| 23 | Crookes was in many ways unlike other English men of science . |
| 24 | The committee 's policy was in many respects akin to that just being abandoned by the Communist Party , but with a greater syndicalist content . |
| 25 | the trouble was in many ways is the man that booked it had had thirty five years ' experience of removals , he knew all the country you see . |
| 26 | The stencilled letters and numerals in Braque 's Portugais are the prelude to the introduction of collage into Cubist painting , and collage was in many ways the logical outcome of the Cubist aesthetic . |
| 27 | But the Doncaster Cord was in many ways the most interesting . |
| 28 | Gow was for many years a close associate of Margaret Thatcher , the Prime Minister , having been her parliamentary private secretary during the first four years of her premiership in 1979-83 , and a member of her government as Minister of Housing in 1983-85 and a Minister of State at the Treasury from September to November 1985 . |
| 29 | Johnstone 's naively gifted style was in many respects complemented by an equally naive honesty with the press and public . |
| 30 | Italy was in many ways at the heart of musical activities during the eighteenth century ; composers came from other countries to study at the various centres and Italian music was exported the world over . |