Example sentences of "many [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the graphite pits were in the Western and Southern Provinces , and a large proportion of miners who worked in other districts came from these areas . |
| 2 | Many of the water companies are now considering installing meters so that they can charge us for the amount of water we have actually used . |
| 3 | Many of the colour differences among papers are very subtle ; although you can detect them with your eye , they are perhaps too subtle to be translated into the four colour printing process used in magazine productions . |
| 4 | As a result , farming interests now dominate many of the park committees and there must be doubt as to whether they are able to give proper consideration and weight to the park purposes when agricultural applications are being considered . |
| 5 | That balance is biased to the degree that an unknowing observer might well conclude that it was not conservation nor recreation but agriculture that was the primary concern of many of the park committees . |
| 6 | Doing that , it would be difficult to ignore the recent double step backwards which has left the farming interests dominant on many of the park committees . |
| 7 | The usurpation of 1483 happened so quickly that many of the duchy servants were presented with a fait accompli , whereupon as usual they backed the crown ( which now happened to be worn by their erstwhile chief steward ) . |
| 8 | The usurpation of 1483 happened so quickly that many of the duchy servants were presented with a fait accompli , whereupon as usual they backed the crown ( which now happened to be worn by their erstwhile chief steward ) . |
| 9 | Into this focus , in many of the pit villages , came new groups , formed by the local women . |
| 10 | And radiation , like many of the drug treatments used for cancer , can cause side-effects that are almost as unpleasant as the disease itself . |
| 11 | Goodey has not looked at it satisfactorily as far as I 'm concerned and as far as many of the scheme members are concerned , I mean he has concluded that the employers are still entitled to er do what they like with the surplus , the only thing that he recommends that they do it with the approval of the regulator himself , but he the other thing that the |
| 12 | If the mother learns how to gain positive interaction from her child during shopping many of the behaviour problems will resolve immediately . |
| 13 | Many of the fodder crops are sold to the hill farmers and some are used to fatten the lambs . |
| 14 | For ‘ nightlife ’ in many of the hostess clubs in the Suzie Wong district , read ‘ rip-off ’ . |
| 15 | The BMC 2 2 and 2 5 unit was fitted to many of the Austin FX4 ‘ Black Cab ’ — workshop manuals and part lists for these are available from many of the cab specialists who advertise in Exchange and of |
| 16 | In many of the successor republics tension and conflict between presidential government and assembly is frequent , as well as public disagreements within the government itself . |
| 17 | Similar struggles have gone on in many of the successor republics ( some are still firmly authoritarian ) and the nature of the executive-assembly relations that will finally be established is uncertain . |
| 18 | Many of the boundary roads to which through traffic would be displaced are lined with housing : as Plowden comments , ‘ the environmental consequences of imposing yet heavier traffic burdens on them can not be dismissed simply by christening them ‘ arterial roads ’ or ‘ distributors ’ . ’ |
| 19 | Many of the packaging materials we used to throw away may now be re-used to save energy and scarce raw materials |
| 20 | ‘ Good God , ’ said this devout Welshman , ‘ this will do for many of the Navy boys worse than the sinking of their own ships , they will have no wives and children to come home to ! ’ |
| 21 | Many of the country houses requisitioned during the Second World War never returned to domestic use . |
| 22 | Many of the country lanes were so narrow that it would not have been possible for two vehicles to pass each other , but after half an hour , they cut into the main road that ran south from Cherbourg to Carentan . |
| 23 | Many of the country stations did not enjoy the pedigree of great architects to sire them . |
| 24 | M.P. , Samuel Whitbread and John Wing were also among the supporters , as were a great many of the country parishes . |
| 25 | Its application meant that London received a proportionally smaller increase in funding , year on year , than many of the Home Counties . |
| 26 | Even that is not clear : many of the break-up bids of the past decade made good economic sense . |
| 27 | The general trend towards central control , together with the introduction of LMS , which delegates to governors many of the management powers which have traditionally been the responsibility of the local authority , have conspired significantly to alter the role of the local education authority . |
| 28 | One of the publishers most successful at catering for this hunger for information is International Data Group ( IDG ) , a firm that has grown big by breaking many of the management rules cherished by other big publishers . |
| 29 | Much of the equipment — and many of the management techniques — now supplying troops in the desert are the same as those working in factories back at home . |
| 30 | Between the borders in the middle of the garden a swathe of soft yellow Cotswold gravel snakes its way , making a good foreground for many of the border plants . |