Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [prep] many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Llanthony Warehouse was for many years a showroom and store for Western Trading Co . |
| 2 | Criticism which could be levelled at this study was in many ways similar to that of youth cultures . |
| 3 | But difficult as the schism was for many workers and indeed activists to understand or justify , its far-reaching ramifications had already begun to emerge . |
| 4 | Agnes and Tommy Docherty 's marriage was in many respects typical of their generation and typical of their catholic upbringing in the west of Scotland . |
| 5 | This part of the dream was like many others I 'd had about him . |
| 6 | Moreover , a change from philosophy was in many ways to be desired , as it so often is . |
| 7 | Madeira wine was for many years the favourite wine of the Russian Court , and one of the Krohn family had been food-taster to the Tsar . |
| 8 | His apparent obsession with Swindon Town was in many respects the beginning of the end . |
| 9 | Maurice 's funeral was in many respects indistinguishable from Beatrix 's . |
| 10 | Evans says that the title of Gospel Oak was in many places conferred on to the tree that , ‘ in for instance the Suffolk village of Polstead , has long outlasted the ceremony ’ . |
| 11 | One of the organisers , Peter Goodwin , admitted that the day was in many ways depressing . |
| 12 | Regrettably , the NHS dental service was in many ways so successful that most of the practices of my acquaintance depended entirely on NHS fees with only one or two patients willing to pay for the entire cost of treatment . |
| 13 | The Indian civil service was in many ways like a hospital , its people bound together by the struggle to survive in a hostile environment . |
| 14 | The revival was in many ways only a relative one . |
| 15 | More recently there was Geoffrey Prime , who worked in the very heart of GCHQ ( see Chapter 4 ) , and Michael Bettaney , an MI5 officer whose drunken and strange behaviour was in many ways reminiscent of Guy Burgess 's yet similarly went undetected until reported by a defector ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 16 | There is much evidence to suggest that the American transformation was in many cases too sudden , too linked with immediately available federal grants , too concerned in fact with the importance of material provision rather than with steady and persistent thought and experimentation . |
| 17 | Thus Marx 's model of historical development was in many respects only a sketch which left many problems unresolved . |
| 18 | The committee 's policy was in many respects akin to that just being abandoned by the Communist Party , but with a greater syndicalist content . |
| 19 | the trouble was in many ways is the man that booked it had had thirty five years ' experience of removals , he knew all the country you see . |
| 20 | The stencilled letters and numerals in Braque 's Portugais are the prelude to the introduction of collage into Cubist painting , and collage was in many ways the logical outcome of the Cubist aesthetic . |
| 21 | But the Doncaster Cord was in many ways the most interesting . |
| 22 | Johnstone 's naively gifted style was in many respects complemented by an equally naive honesty with the press and public . |
| 23 | His thought was in many ways inadequately worked out , but he set signposts for the future . |
| 24 | We have already seen that the committee structure devised for this purpose was in many ways unsatisfactory but that some useful and interesting inservice activities did result from the project . |
| 25 | In the same year that the school seconded a member of staff to develop the school-industry relationship , our second secondment was in many ways closely related in that we released a member of staff with a brief about the development of a Record of Achievement and Experience ( RAE ) . |
| 26 | Holiday was in many ways the first modern pop vocalist . |
| 27 | But this monitoring was for many students inconsistent with their future leading roles in Chinese industry , commerce and society in general . |
| 28 | Work in this field was for many years hampered by a lack of techniques sufficiently sensitive to detect changes in the solutions under study and by a rigid and over-simplified view of the nature of solutions . |
| 29 | In the courtyard , a 14th-century half-timbered and thatched roof building was for many centuries the local courthouse where justice was meted out . |
| 30 | The abolition of the tied cottage was for many years the notorious ‘ hardy annual ’ of TUC and Labour Party conferences but reform of the system was pushed persistently aside . |