Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adv] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been through so many rehearsals of this moment in London . |
| 2 | ‘ Since we broke up a year ago I 've been through so many relationships , and my songs are now a lot more about being really fickle with women , and not knowing who I like , and being really insecure about who likes me . ’ |
| 3 | I think members will probably by now , be aware that a decision has been taken to leave the offices in Bedford Square where we have been for so many years . |
| 4 | In Kuwait there are about how many Palestinians ? |
| 5 | Alexis and Paul Gilmour are behind the campaign and they are after as many signatures as possible . |
| 6 | As you know , it 's pretty easy to stay within R & A guidelines as long as any kinks in the shaft are within so many inches of the putter head and so on . |
| 7 | I confess I did not remember her at all , but I have been in so many hoses , I suppose it is only natural … " |
| 8 | So too did many others , on both sides of the Pennines , not all of them obeying the mischievous hints of Captain Goldsborough , of course — since even he could not have been in so many places all at once — but intent on stirring up trouble nevertheless . |
| 9 | She spoke with the air of an old warrior who has been in so many battles that bravery has become commonplace . |
| 10 | Then , on closer inspection , it emerges that there are oddities in this particular instance ( as there are in so many cases ) and the quest is on to identify the survival value of these particular idiosyncrasies . |
| 11 | It is one of the humbling lessons we learn from living with companion animals , namely that we are in so many ways their inferiors , even though as a species we have come to dominate the planet . |
| 12 | People in Great Britain really have no idea how fortunate they are in so many ways — the right to free speech , and even the ‘ right ’ ( ! ) to throw an egg at the Prime Minister and only receive a bill for the dry cleaning . |
| 13 | You 'd done the hard part correctly , calculating what the weight would be for so many engines . |
| 14 | Birds can be an inspiration , as they have been to so many artists and poets . |
| 15 | One of the members of his staff , Wing Commander Ken Underwood Ground , has been on so many accident investigations now that he is regarded as an unofficial honorary Inspector of Accidents by AIB . |
| 16 | CRITIC : Helen Williams is against too many exams |
| 17 | ‘ Actually , ’ he said , ‘ it 's like so many things in life — something you go through with once , because you have to . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's like so many things you 've told me about these murders , robberies and the rape . |
| 19 | The next question that arises is in how many ways can one decompose a given number as such a sum of squares ? |
| 20 | Since the monarchy is in so many respects the visible representation of the nation , the merest whiff of criticism draws the fire of every tub-thumping little Englander with access to a microphone . |
| 21 | The final curtain as it was for so many cinemas at this time , before they became cash and carry warehouses for bowls and colanders , brushes , clothes pegs , cloths and uncountable tons of things being produced in orange plastic . |
| 22 | ‘ Because I was for so many years a one man operation , ’ he says , ‘ I was always right at the centre of things . |
| 23 | When it poured down incessantly he saw only too clearly how he had got stuck , was at an impasse , handicapped as he was in so many respects . |
| 24 | We know more about movie-going in Chicago than about any other city and this is appropriate for it was in so many ways the symbolic city of those last decades before the First World War . |
| 25 | The years 1182–3 were to be the maker-break crisis of Richard 's rule in Aquitaine , faced as he was by so many enemies . |