Example sentences of "and [prep] many [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Within a decade , Fothergill was able to give Marshall a descriptive account of the flourishing Upton garden acknowledged , he said , ‘ by the ablest botanists we have , that there is not a richer bit of ground in curious American plants in Great Britain ; and for many of the most curious I am obliged to thy diligence and care . ’
2 As in the 1950s and 1980s , and for many of the same reasons , Labour 's ‘ forward march ’ seemed far from guaranteed .
3 To take but one of many examples , there is a single code to represent all the variations on the Charnley hip replacement procedure — quite adequate for most statistical purposes but falling short of the detail required for audit and for many of the uses to which medical records are put .
4 This has been recognised by the Panel and for many of the purposes of the Code and SARs , " control " is deemed to be the holding of an aggregate of 30 per cent or more of the voting rights of a company .
5 Er , the European project goes on and for many of the newer generations in this place , it 's not longer an article of faith er but a part of the political landscape that has to be dealt with on merit and it 's all the more ludicrous therefore Mr Deputy Speaker , that the Conservatives ' internal divisions over Maastricht have led to a situation where candidates for the ever more important European elections are only now being selected in certain seats , just fourteen weeks before the election .
6 He has long been hailed as a potential leader , and for many on the Right he is still the Thatcherite hero-in-waiting .
7 This was also the view of the other three main independent surveys ( of Cambridge , Oxford and Scotland ) and of many of the teachers involved ; and by April 1940 officials in Whitehall were privately agreeing .
8 In effect this was a time when new worlds and new social structures were being forged ; and in many ways we were closer to the world of the underground than that of the moral majority , for we were walking the same ground and like many in the alternative society were ( somewhat unsystematically ) following an essential and perennial theme of history — that of man 's journey as ‘ hero ’ .
9 That stake was later sold and the privatization of the ports was completed without any industrial action and with many of the dockers buying shares in the new company .
10 They sell here as well packaged ranges , undercutting rivals by three and often four figures , and with many of the usual extras built in .
11 Perlite : A volcanic material like vermiculite and with many of the same properties .
12 In Vietnam , it was the same argument , and with many of the same features , that underlay the nature of the French Union .
13 It contrasts in this way both with middle-class speech and with many of the dialect regions of south , mid and west Ulster .
14 I have heard evidence from noise experts and from many of the residents .
15 The most versatile of the vinegars , these are used for general cookery and in many of the classic sauces .
16 Okay , maybe I should know all this by now , but I do n't and I bet there are a lot of new readers who also read the mag and in many of the reviews there comes a point where they say to themselves , ‘ what 's one of them ? ’
17 There are notions of a Creator in Hinduism , and in many of the indigenous religions in Africa .
18 For example , computing has infiltrated most professions now without any great ballyhoo , and in many of the ‘ people-professions ’ the attitude to the client has shifted steadily towards a rather less authoritarian one .
19 Along the foot of the South Downs north of Chichester there is the well-known Goodwood raised beach at about 30–40 m ( 100–130 ft ) OD , with gravels which are readily recognisable as beach material : a low raised beach a few feet above present high tide level is to be found on the Gower peninsula in South Wales ; on the west coast of Scotland a raised beach at approximately 7 5 m ( 25 ft ) OD occurs on many of the islands , such as Arran , and in many of the lochs .
20 Out in the garden Keith has built dry stone walls to provide a natural habitat for thousand of insects , and in many of the trees bat and bird boxes .
21 And on many of the occasions I had the distinct impression that the girls had dressed up too : one girl wore a big hat , another a beautiful sari in purple and black , another wore DM boots and a big overcoat ; many wore make-up , jewellery and perfume .
22 The Masai are one of the largest tribes in Kenya and to many of the people Jesus is unknown .
23 I had become something of an expert in the leisure market , and to many of the institutional buyers had some spurious extra authority simply because I could hit a golf ball further and straighter than they could .
24 Sociologists have either to accept a thoroughly verificationist approach to both Freud and to many of the founders of sociology , or to be inconsistent and accept a judgement made by psychologists about Freud which is based on logical and philosophical assumptions which , if applied to Max Weber or Èmile Durkheim or Marx , would lead to these thinkers being likewise dismissed as unscientific .
25 At the age of 63 , Friedman seems in better technical shape than ever , and to many of the younger members of his substantial audience , these performances must have come as a revelation .
26 There is plenty of ‘ scriptural ’ evidence that the viciousness of evolutionary dominance was , for long periods of history , and among many of the peoples of the earth , in no wise eschewed .
27 The outstanding early example of this was the D.C.3 , later known as the Dakota , and this was followed by the Spitfire and by many of the famous aircraft of the last War .
28 However , they have been widely used by Tough and by many of the teachers she has worked with and thus , from a practical point of view , they seem to have been well tried and tested by practitioners .
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