Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [prep] many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For them , getting a winter coat was a big thing , it was to many working-class women what getting a car is to many men . |
| 2 | The agricultural industry is in many ways exceptional : not least because of its relative freedom from formal controls . |
| 3 | Founded in 1925 , the Review is in many respects a source as appropriate to this phase as the English Association and the Newbolt Committee were for the earlier period . |
| 4 | This point needs to be stressed , because recruitment administration is in many respects so mundane that outsiders to the personnel department have difficulty understanding why it should cause a problem . |
| 5 | However , that imposition simultaneously reveals how , without linguistic knowledge to explain the distinction , the enforced recognition is for many teachers a traumatic experience . |
| 6 | Shamim 's village is like many others from which Pakistani immigrants have come to Britain . |
| 7 | Conversely , poetry is in many ways closer to music than to the more extended and discursive literary forms . |
| 8 | On the technical side , remedial work is in many cases already on the way . |
| 9 | However , the Universe is in many ways a very orderly place : if nine planets orbit a star in roughly the same plane , the tenth can be expected to do likewise . |
| 10 | The fact that divorce is in many cases equally desired by both parties makes it probable that there may in fact be some collusion between them . |
| 11 | ‘ The picture that emerges from our review of radioactive waste management is in many ways a disquieting one , ’ the Commission noted with cautious understatement , ‘ indicating insufficient appreciation of long-term requirements either by government departments or other organizations concerned . ’ |
| 12 | Or at least they start , both books really start with the same issue , and the issue in question is in many ways , well , you could argue that it was in many ways fundamental to the social sciences . |
| 13 | As for the Liberal Democrats , responding with ‘ gambling is in many cases an addiction ’ is absolutely laughable . |
| 14 | This scenario is in many ways similar to Charles Handy 's Work Society , but , whereas Handy based his vision on his views about what values ought to prevail in post-industrial society , Gershuny 's picture is built up from an analysis of economic trends . |
| 15 | This process is in many ways analogous to deductive reasoning . |
| 16 | This group is in many ways similar to the elderly , except that they are less likely to be able to contribute to care from their own resources and are therefore more likely to receive a free service wherever they are placed . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , Picasso 's bronze Head is in many ways a revolutionary work . |
| 18 | ‘ Water is from many wells , pumped up and sterilised on the property . |
| 19 | However , it is generally recognized that gender inequality in education is in many respects different from inequality of class . |
| 20 | Pannick is in many respects a mild reformer : more of a Gorbachev than a Yeltsin when it comes to this version of the one-party state . |
| 21 | This excellently Greek island is in many ways a sample of the successes and the continuing tribulations of the country as a whole . |
| 22 | It is not surprising therefore that the history of thought about the two policy areas is in some ways similar , although that of family planning is in many ways a decade ahead of conservation . |
| 23 | This alternative strategy is in many respects less coherent than Owen 's and it is this which helps to explain the fact that Roger 's approach is often misunderstood by those outside the unit . |
| 24 | Established in London in 1970 in King Street , St James ' , then from 1975 operating in upmarket Jermyn Street , the firm is in many ways similar to Spencer Stuart . |
| 25 | The novel is in many ways a problematical form for the communist writer . |
| 26 | The style of the poem is in many ways seventeenth-century , though there are plenty of resemblances to later hymns ; but it could be described as an emblem-poem in the seventeenth-century tradition . |
| 27 | Yes it does , the there is as you will see from the greenbelt plan , a apart from the issue of the fact that the the city boundary is in many areas er sort of hard up against further urban development so there 's no space between the city and the parts in adjacent districts , the greenbelt boundary , as currently proposed by the County Council , erm which as you 'll see from our evidence is not a boundary supported in its entirety by the City Council , means there is no further development land between the city boundary and the greenbelt . |
| 28 | And in a way I 'm quite glad to be outside that circuit because my existence as a an artist is in many ways more real than to be cosseted by Arts Council money . |
| 29 | His paradoxical logic is in many respects similar to the non-binary logical structures developed in France in the late 1960s to account for the peculiarities of literature and of narrative in particular ( see section 3.2 above ) . |
| 30 | His small farm is like many others on the lower land of Northern Ireland . |