Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] in many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year later further serious violence occurred during the weekend of 10–12 April 1981 in the Brixton area of south London ; this resulted in many injuries and widespread damage , and it attracted enormous media attention . |
| 2 | The justification for government action on efficiency grounds is that the costs of organizing private sector collective action are too great for this to occur in many cases . |
| 3 | It must be said that in Britain the new public library authorities created in 1972 have in many cases failed to capitalize on the opportunities for better stock provision which the larger units were supposedly able to achieve . |
| 4 | This comes in many packages so , as with all insurance , shop around . |
| 5 | This comes in many sizes and will hold your flowers at any angle you want . |
| 6 | These steps are likely to result in many employees ' worries being reduced and their attitudes towards relocation abroad becoming more favourable . |
| 7 | Despite the relative dereliction of some parts of Kent , the image of the garden of England remains a powerful influence and is likely to figure in many planning battles to come . |
| 8 | These come in many styles but are basically of two types — those where the blades pass each other in a scissor action , and those where a single sharp blade presses down on a block or ‘ anvil ’ . |
| 9 | But in another sense they raise a much more serious issue , one likely to arise in many jurisdictions whenever the defendant is not an individual but a corporation or some other form of association ; and it will be recognised that a very great proportion of international litigation does involve corporate defendants . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Good venues were difficult to find in many west coast and island situations . |
| 15 | The nature of the privileges suggests the rigour of the previous regime , which was still slow to change in many unions . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Though we did not observe custom , generally , as we were not orthodox , mother did her best to conform in many ways . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |