Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [prep] many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we can suspend the rigidity of the traditional comparisons , we can realise that Matisse and Picasso are in many respects part of the same enterprise . |
| 2 | Housmans considers that building a property in Portugal is in many cases cheaper than buying one . |
| 3 | Again , anyone like Daphne Sheldrick , who wrote The Orphans of Tsavo about the wild animals she reared in Tsavo National Park , Kenya , where her husband David was for many years the highly successful warden , knows that African elephant calves are easily tamed . |
| 4 | I know Sibelius is in many ways a very different composer from Bruckner , but I remember you suggesting that there are for you affinities between them . |
| 5 | The club was a meeting place for musicians of his era , and Archer Street was for many years the centre of the British dance music business . |
| 6 | Coleridge was in many ways far ahead of his time . |
| 7 | However amenable to overseas influence Boiotia may have been in the prehistoric period ( p. 83 ) , classical , fourth-century and hellenistic Boiotia was in many respects deeply conservative and introverted . |
| 8 | Crookes was in many ways unlike other English men of science . |
| 9 | Gow was for many years a close associate of Margaret Thatcher , the Prime Minister , having been her parliamentary private secretary during the first four years of her premiership in 1979-83 , and a member of her government as Minister of Housing in 1983-85 and a Minister of State at the Treasury from September to November 1985 . |
| 10 | Italy was in many ways at the heart of musical activities during the eighteenth century ; composers came from other countries to study at the various centres and Italian music was exported the world over . |
| 11 | Robert Indiana was in many ways a pioneer in the use of words as the chief subject matter for art , making what you read just as important as what you ‘ see ’ . |
| 12 | This does not have to correspond with the aesthetic merit of the work as a whole : the opening of David Copperfield is in many respects more like the Class 1 sample than the Class 2 sample above . |
| 13 | Peterborough is perhaps the best known but March in Cambridgeshire and Gainsborough and Spalding in Lincolnshire are among many places where the railway transformed provincial towns . |
| 14 | Jasmine was like many horses : sold as a three-year-old because her owner had found that he could not successfully train her . |
| 15 | Agriculture in Germany was in many ways a mixture of old and new . |
| 16 | Zanzibar was for many years an Omani-owned territory . |
| 17 | Political attitudes towards press and radio in independent Tanzania are in many ways typical of those in newly independent African nations . |
| 18 | The Dicks were amongst many others who have been recognised for their contribution . |
| 19 | It can not be pretended that either scholar 's career is entirely typical of its period-Hocazade 's career is unusually chaotic even for the later fifteenth century , Civizade 's in many respects unusually " regular " even for the later sixteenth century-but the degree to which they are atypic is not sufficient to give a misleading impression . |
| 20 | Yet Leavis was in many respects not a man of his time ; though himself a dedicated university teacher , he was in spirit the last of the Victorian sages , who were men of letters and of affairs , not academics ( prescinding from Arnold 's and Ruskin 's marginal tenure of chairs at Oxford ) . |