Example sentences of "[conj] many [noun pl] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lots of us understand very well that many revolutions died because their leaders could not forget how good they were at destruction . |
| 2 | NB In spite of our attempt to seek information relating only to time spent on specific work on the nature of language and its role in the world , it was clear that many respondents considered that any course on ( e.g. ) language teaching methods or reading methods was entirely ‘ about ’ language . |
| 3 | and there ca n't be that many authorities left that are n't already involved . |
| 4 | The St Albans writer Thomas Walsingham declared that scarcely two men survived out of twenty in certain religious houses , and that many men considered that barely a tenth of the whole population remained alive ( 32 , i , 273 ) . |
| 5 | They helped to overcome the notion that many children had that bookshops were daunting places . |
| 6 | Victorin Hameni Bieleu , a leading member of the opposition , said that many parties believed that the RDPC would take complete control of the Assembly as a result and predicted a boycott of the elections " if things continue like this " . |
| 7 | Discussions concerning the contentious issue of Bougainville 's future status were deferred , although many commentators speculated that , if the agreement was to hold , it would have to lead ultimately to the granting of greater autonomy to PNG 's North Solomons province which encompassed Bougainville . |
| 8 | The original requisition of ships was uncontested , although many towns protested that they were too poor to provide what was asked . |
| 9 | Most village cattle were undernourished and unhealthy , and many contemporaries believed that their condition was getting worse . |
| 10 | And I and many others thought that the Tories , after the war was finished , the Tories would walk in . |
| 11 | Thermal mass was discussed and applied and many entrants appreciated that this might not be appropriate for those parts of the building having only occasional use . |
| 12 | Moynihan and his growing body of supporters ridiculed this proposal , and many commentators felt that the administration would find it very difficult to reject Moynihan 's demand for an immediate social security tax cut ( which would benefit all citizens ) whilst pursuing a reduction in capital gains tax which would be of chief benefit to those who were already among the most wealthy . |
| 13 | With the death of Abe , it possessed no figure with sufficient authority to make a credible challenge for the leadership , and many commentators predicted that it would fracture and split . |
| 14 | In agreeing the format of the talks on May 9 , both sides agreed that they should be completed " as quickly as possible " , although no deadline was agreed and many observers predicted that they would last for several months . |
| 15 | Fears were expressed that these additional courts would enable the government to try anyone connected in any capacity to the PPP , and many observers considered that the real purpose of the tribunals was to bar PPP members from contesting elections . |
| 16 | In the middle of the century there was no agreement on the formulae of even the simpler chemical compounds , and many chemists felt that an atomic theory was merely a distraction : that chemists ought to stick at the ‘ equivalent weights ’ which gave accurate recipes , and not bother with attempts at explanation . |
| 17 | The situation is very much easier today than even ten years ago when male/female roles were far more stereotyped and many couples felt that they had to conform to a set pattern for the sake of convention . |
| 18 | Indeed , a soft conventionalist would be able to deny that there were gaps even if lawyers disagreed about these abstract conventions , even if many lawyers denied that statutes make law or that precedents exert some influence over later decisions . |
| 19 | Scopes had broken the law and so lost his case , but many Americans believed that Darrow had won a moral victory . |
| 20 | Some won their battles , but many others discovered that in law they were merely tenants-at-will and that as a consequence they had to pay much higher rents than before . |
| 21 | That decision was the second major controversy of Hunt 's extraordinary year : this time not just Ferrari but many others felt that the race had been stopped to give Hunt time to repair his car , an argument given plausibility by the fact that Lauda had made his way out of the trouble and was clearly leading the race when it stopped . |
| 22 | It supported the new Labour government but many Liberals felt that such a course of action was unwise . |
| 23 | But many Libyans argued that the popular consultations of 1976 had had no more than a delaying effect . |
| 24 | This trend was partially reversed in the years after 1885 because many officials felt that the prison regime was too lenient and that flogging was the only effective deterrent to crime . |
| 25 | Robert seems to have had a special affection for the Orynthia ; whereas many mariners came and went as the whim took them , he stuck to his old ship . |
| 26 | There had been much insistence among Slovaks that the country 's name had to be hyphenated in order to make explicit the separate and equal identity of the two nations , whereas many Czechs felt that the issue was divisive and that the state 's title should be merely shortened by removing the word " Socialist " . |
| 27 | But in such a modern industrialized state it was not long before many groups realized that their role in the social and economic system made their co-operation and support essential to the Communist Party . |
| 28 | I mentioned this to a Fetlar man who used to hunt otters for their pelts , as many crofters did and he could tell me that there had been pale-coated otters in that area for at least fifty years . |
| 29 | Grievances against the federal Government of the republic of India go back to the time of independence , when many Sikhs felt that Nehru and his Congress party reneged on solemn undertakings . |