Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Expeditions to the bottom of the peat-filled loch in 1976 resulted in many photographs of what appeared to be a herd of giant sea-creatures with paddle-like fins , long necks and calf-like heads . |
| 32 | The rise in the illegitimacy rate during World War II resulted from many marriages not taking place ( owing to conscription and general wartime dislocation ) , rather than from a rise in premarital conceptions . |
| 33 | I was unwilling to move for many minutes as I experienced the power present in that place . |
| 34 | Perhaps Labour was also unable to appeal to many voters in an increasingly better-off , more obviously middle-class Britain . |
| 35 | It is a style that is unlikely to appeal to many people , and is not even encouraged by NACAB or GLCABS . |
| 36 | I enjoy my work at the playgroup and hope I will be able to continue for many years to come ’ |
| 37 | John Pople , like the rest of the quantum community , is conscious of the shortcomings of quantum mechanics and he thinks that exact solutions to the Schrödinger equation for many-electron systems are unlikely to appear for many decades . |
| 38 | Speech recognition , on the other hand , as featured in science fiction and typified by the HAL computer in 2001 — A Space Odyssey is unlikely to appear for many years yet , if ever . |
| 39 | It seems increasingly likely that plutonic and granulitic rocks with grain-boundary carbon could have electrical conductivities as high as those deduced in many areas of the lower continental crust . |
| 40 | There was a decline in the island s population in the mid-1850s associated with many people emigrating at the time of the oidium disease of the vines . |
| 41 | A full PPL course to CAA requirements should prove even cheaper than those advertised by many USA schools . |
| 42 | She also read the message in italics printed beneath the cartoon , to the effect that the cartoonist responsible had for many years been officially connected with a provincial newspaper and was now , in the sunset of his life , himself the recipient of twice-weekly Meals on Wheels . |
| 43 | In 1931 , Horton visited Denmark to look more closely at the Folk Schools and their relationships with the trade unions , farmers ' co-operatives , and other cultural and social movements , and though he was in part disappointed by the fact that the Folk Schools had moved away from their original aims and methods , he was able to speak to many people who were involved in this movement and added another dimension to the idea which was eventually to find its expression in Highlander . |
| 44 | A Japanese aristocrat , which I first came across many years ago in a Berkshire woodland garden , is Kirengeshoma palmata , with large , lobed , vine-like leaves on dark 3ft stems . |
| 45 | The intense conflict in the years from 1980 to 1982 led to many resignations among teachers , while many others asked for transfers . |
| 46 | Good thatch is difficult to obtain in many parts of the world , and in the Indian State of Kamataka peasants now have to buy bamboo at 1200 rupees a tonne on the free market ( about £80 a tonne ) whereas the paper industry is still able to get it at 15 rupees a tonne ( £1 ) from the government 's reserved forests . |
| 47 | By stressing superiority of the competitive as opposed to the collaborative , the individual as against the collective , the private as compared to the public and by elevating profitability to at times the sole criterion of success , they have created an economic framework where the survival of the fittest has in many cases come to mean the survival of those who are best at avoiding controls on their activities without being caught . |
| 48 | Good venues were difficult to find in many west coast and island situations . |
| 49 | The lessons of one political movement are vital to relate to many others . |
| 50 | But even the most optimistic pundits agree that British schools are dismal compared with many rivals abroad . |
| 51 | The same applies to many pupils in secondary schools . |
| 52 | The nature of the privileges suggests the rigour of the previous regime , which was still slow to change in many unions . |
| 53 | At one time they could turn to the Government 's agricultural advisory service , but now this charges for its help and is too expensive to consult in many cases . |
| 54 | Though we did not observe custom , generally , as we were not orthodox , mother did her best to conform in many ways . |
| 55 | Most certainly , though , we should appreciate how fortunate we are in having medical services , caring people around us , and living in a country where natural disasters are rare compared with many places on this earth . |
| 56 | Unfortunately one is obliged to wade through many pages of extraneous material in order to discover and savour these sidelights on the management of a Midland shooting estate , and in this reviewer 's opinion the book can not take the place of J. Miller 's Practical Gamekeeping . |
| 57 | The understanding of the interaction of statute and case law required in this area is no different from that required in many cases pursued in the county courts and High Court . |
| 58 | Enthusiastic attempts to drain wetlands throughout the 1970s and early 1980s have in many cases failed to produce the high-quality farmland which was the object of these expensive exercises . |