Example sentences of "many [noun] [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , many institutions are restricted from holding foreign securities ( e.g. German life insurers ) and many have restrictions on acceptable credit ratings . |
| 2 | The young people who come into care are drawn almost exclusively from the ranks of the poor and disadvantaged and though many reasons are given for the move , frequently it is the inability of the family to cope with illness , bereavement , divorce or remarriage . |
| 3 | And that , say police , is the reason why so many cyclists are hit on the roads . |
| 4 | Our knowledge of this is patchy , and it is certain that the quantity of trade is not a precise reflection of the prosperity of English shipping , as many exports were carried in foreign vessels . |
| 5 | In other words , many hoteliers are faced with debt burdens which are too high . |
| 6 | He had many times been reduced to helpless rage by Graham 's attitude to his subjects , by his refusal to give science stories the importance Mike believed they had , but at least he was consistent in his attitudes . |
| 7 | Of course , all such early introductions have many times been added to if not replaced by others right up to the present day . |
| 8 | Many labourers were employed on a casual basis , having only intermittent work ; these , if included , would reduce the average . |
| 9 | To the south , Mid-Essex was more varied , interspersed with arable tracts , while the farmers and smallholders of the Thames-side marshes prospered on meat and dairy produce for the London market ; doubtless too the proximity of the metropolis affected earnings in Becontree hundred , where many labourers were taxed at 40s . |
| 10 | So , how many policies were reversed by the incoming government , and which policies and areas of policy were left untouched ? |
| 11 | The policy may be based on an assumption that not many houses are required in the whole district . |
| 12 | Is the Minister aware that eight times as many houses were built under the previous Labour Government than those doctored figures show for the last financial year ? |
| 13 | Assuming they lived six to a house , how many houses were built in this short period ? |
| 14 | In a game that went to the fifth day only because many hours were lost to the weather — the actual playing time was two and two-thirds days — one was left wondering what he might have done had he been fully fit . |
| 15 | The operator syllable implies ( or specifies in a subfield ) how many syllables are required for the instruction . |
| 16 | These multi-chambered tombs in Islay have in many cases been robbed of their cairns and left open to the sky . " |
| 17 | During wartime and the postwar era of government price control , electricity undertakings had in many cases been prevented from raising domestic tariffs to meet increased costs , and had drawn instead on their reserves and on the automatic increases paid by larger ( mainly industrial ) consumers under the coal-cost increase clause of their special tariffs . |
| 18 | Many cases were delegated to them to hear on their own . |
| 19 | Under the 1964 Judges Rules , questioning was permitted during this period and many cases were disposed of following confessions or damaging admissions by suspects after arrest . |
| 20 | At the same time as the evaluation of housing tenure was strengthening one base of working class Tory support , however , certain other bases were being eroded , for instance paternalistic relations within industrial enterprises were in many cases being undermined by the growth of industrial concentration and rise of large multidivisional enterprises , and the development of trade unionism within these . |
| 21 | Farmers , while including all gradations of responsiveness within their ranks , do in many cases have a deep feeling for the land which they see every day , and which in many cases was shaped by their fathers and grandfathers , and which they would like to pass on to their children . |
| 22 | Again , the , the deity , in many religions is regarded as er , enforcing morality and justice , if not in the here below , then very often in the hereafter . |
| 23 | In the following years many proposals were made for the construction of a railway between Welshpool and Llanfair Caereinion but it was not until 1898 that a company was formed to build the present line and the then Earl of Powis became its Chairman , an office which he held until the grouping in 1922 . |
| 24 | Many improvements were made to the Bank Quay works , and Crosfields ' products were marketed throughout the world . |
| 25 | These trends were supposed to be so powerful that many groups were driven to extinction as once-useful organs became overdeveloped to the extent that they interfered with the animals ' ability to cope with the environment . |
| 26 | During this time the Everqueen ruled Ulthuan from Avelorn and many realms were founded by adventurers departing from that primeval land . |
| 27 | Although many signs were associated with hypoxaemia in infants 3–11 months of age , retractions , grunting , and unresponsiveness seemed to be the most useful signs of hypoxaemia in this age group . |
| 28 | Timing is critical : many meetings are marred by going on and on . |
| 29 | If the x coins of year a were made , for example , a hundred years before the 2x coins of year b , it would be unwise to conclude that twice as many coins were made in year b , since to do so would take no account of the gradual wastage or erosion of coins of year a from circulation ( by accidental loss , hoarding , export of coinage , melting down , etc . ) . |
| 30 | In the last decade or so of his reign , approximately 100 mints functioned ( even if not all did so continuously ) : for the volume of the coinage they produced , only a " ball-park estimate " can be given — perhaps tens of millions of coins — but the quality of the coins has recently been very precisely determined : whereas before 864 many coins were debased by up to 50 per cent , after 864 a silver-content of well over 90 per cent was secured across the board . |