Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] [prep] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the idea of competitive antagonism as a guide and the success of PAS as an encouragement , many other compounds were investigated in many laboratories . |
| 2 | Large numbers of inventories of household goods and chattels were exhibited in many probate courts in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries and are preserved in local record offices throughout England and Wales . |
| 3 | After the agreement was reached , indignant voices were raised in many quarters , but I am happy to say that few , if any , regarded my behaviour as treacherous . |
| 4 | In the next phase of the investigation , paragraphs were extracted from many other documents and indexed by node-link-node triples . |
| 5 | Sensitive areas were avoided by many schools for pupils at all stages . |
| 6 | Its social and evangelistic outposts in numerous countries were staffed by many competent officers . |
| 7 | They based their case on grounds of both efficiency and democracy. : These advantages were obtained by many of the former county boroughs which Redcliffe-Maud considered to have ‘ been the most effective local government unit we have known ’ ( Redcliffe-Maud 1969:Vol 1 68 ) . |
| 8 | Night patrols were introduced in many districts , and some cattle thieves were caught transporting stolen animals . |
| 9 | There was an analogy here with Darwinian biology , where the species at a given time were real interbreeding units though they were all supposed to be descendants of one primitive form ; similarly the chemical elements were supposed by many to be all ‘ descendants ’ or polymers of hydrogen or helium , and therefore not truly simple bodies , although in ordinary chemical processes they could not be transformed one into another . |
| 10 | In this period , the multiple stations of the various companies were demolished in many cities , and were re-placed by large ‘ Union ’ stations . |
| 11 | In these ways , the pit workforces were divided into many small , relatively independent units , each with its own wage rate : there was no miner solidarity . |
| 12 | It was not clear whether he caught the aside from one witness that Nicolae and Elena 's speeches and writings were translated into many more languages than that . |
| 13 | Then the active ones cleared the plates from the jabbering throng and the pies were produced with many oos and aahs . |
| 14 | Factory buildings were established in many different areas of Kilmarnock . |
| 15 | The situation on the farm was an ever-changing one for the wife and examples of these changes were seen on many holdings . |
| 16 | Some of them had gone into trances , and questions were asked by many worried parents . |
| 17 | Fairy lights were hung over many of the mosques and houses . |
| 18 | Because of the scarcity of ministers , young conforming curates were appointed to many of the kirks but they were disliked , ignored and often abused by the congregations . |
| 19 | The date coincides with the institution at Alexandria of the cult of Alexander the Great , whose clean-shaven features were copied by many of his successors . |
| 20 | If the doctrine was broken and officials could explain their views freely in public , then ministers would have the much more formidable task of making their case against men who were seized of the key counterpoints and who knew that their arguments were accepted by many in the ministry . |
| 21 | A set of conference papers was available for 2 years after the conference and sets were purchased by many people at a nominal price . |
| 22 | The Dukeries field was ( and still is in many respects ) different from many others on all three of the components of a place , as illustrated not only by Sunley 's arguments ( following Krieger and others ) regarding the different social relations at the workplace , but also Waller 's ( 1983 , p. 235 ) that whereas the Dukeries villages were praised for many of their design aspects , ‘ the social and political institutions of the miners in the new South Yorkshire villages left much to be desired compared with traditional and long-established coalfields ’ . |
| 23 | punitive expeditions were sent to many other cities . |
| 24 | Initially , church members were viewed by many with suspicion because of breakdowns in relationships ( rows over brownies and guides , etc. ) in the past . |
| 25 | Seals were manufactured at many settlements , both towns and villages . |
| 26 | C. Wooden sailing ships were built in many small shipyards along the rivers Tyne and Wear . |
| 27 | The Third Republic had survived the Great War of 1914–18 but its institutions were blamed by many for the humiliation of 1940 . |
| 28 | In the hamlets and villages the galleries were used for many purposes . |
| 29 | Community care proposals were perceived by many NHS staff as essentially to do with social care , something which could best be left to the local authorities . |
| 30 | However the original Codasyl proposals were considered by many to have a ‘ physical schema flavour ’ as well as presenting a standard for the logical schema . |