Example sentences of "[noun] were [prep] many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many cases , the latter variables were accounted for more than initial variables — ; ‘ first or last words were in many cases influential in my decision making process ’ and ‘ found that the last few adjectives had more influence especially if they reflected negative points of the personality ’ . |
| 2 | But the stations were in many respects designed to avoid these encounters across class and racial boundaries as much as possible . |
| 3 | However , as the Puritan and moderate positions were in many ways mutually antagonistic , some towns and villages inevitably witnessed acrimonious and protracted disputes over the character of local worship and divergent attitudes towards what some historians have labelled ‘ maypole culture ’ . |
| 4 | Before doing so , some longer-run historical trends need to be mentioned briefly , because implicit in much of the writing on the social creation of dependency is the belief that elderly people were in many ways more independent in a pre-welfare state age . |
| 5 | For instance , instead of sending work to the paint shop to be painted , the painters were in many cases permanently located at points where work was sufficiently finished . |
| 6 | As Crocombe ( 1972 ) points out , agricultural practices across this widely-scattered area of small islands were in many ways comparable at the time of the European invasions . |
| 7 | Referring their readers to the HMI 's survey of teachers in their first year in the profession , they repeat the survey 's ‘ finding ’ that ‘ the personal qualities of the teachers were in many cases the decisive factor in their effectiveness ’ . |
| 8 | The JS clerks of works were for many years mainly responsible for quality control of building and engineering , which is a role normally undertaken by the architect on construction projects . |
| 9 | Network members were in many cases members of one or several scientific societies , each of which held regular lecture meetings , and more informal discussions . |
| 10 | In the late 1980s , the annual programmes produced by both the Partnership and Programme Authorities were in many respects not substantially different from those produced a decade earlier . |
| 11 | In this regard , it is relevant that the ‘ places ’ created by the expansion of non-manual/salaried employment were in many cases filled by the sons of manual wage workers , providing them with an avenue for social advancement , rather than , say , by more rapid breeding on the part of previously privileged strata . |
| 12 | Mutual benefit societies were in many ways the forerunners of building societies . |
| 13 | The verderers were intended to act as a check upon the paid Forest officers in the interests of the Crown , but the numerous instances already cited of peculation and extortion on the part of the latter seem to indicate that the verderers were in many instances overawed by the authority and influence of the wardens and foresters of fee . |
| 14 | It was n't just that the parents had to be kept under control despite the fact that they and the police were in many respects working at cross purposes , it was the danger of some third party interfering … a go-between with power and influence was what the Captain dreaded most … |
| 15 | The Crown 's servants in the sixteenth century were in many ways less effective as administrative instruments than had been their predecessors in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries . |
| 16 | It also coincided with the rise and consolidation of the labour movement in Britain ; and that is a story from which women were for many years absent or in which they featured very much as a minority . |
| 17 | Masefield 's years in training on the Conway and his scant year at sea were among many experiences in his early life in which he pursued a quest for beauty , in nature and in man , a quest whose romantic zest was combined with a strong interest in technical matters , in the structure and working of everyday . |
| 18 | The Dicks were amongst many others who have been recognised for their contribution . |
| 19 | At the same time as the evaluation of housing tenure was strengthening one base of working class Tory support , however , certain other bases were being eroded , for instance paternalistic relations within industrial enterprises were in many cases being undermined by the growth of industrial concentration and rise of large multidivisional enterprises , and the development of trade unionism within these . |