Example sentences of "many [adj] [noun pl] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regional competitions were held for most indoor sports like billiards , snooker and darts ; many deaf institutes had their soccer teams with the B.D.D.A. 's annual Healey Cup being keenly fought for . |
| 2 | So many confusing facts battered his brain he did n't know how to start sorting them out . |
| 3 | Dr Kumar said he had realised many Labour supporters shared his sense of deep shock after the election . |
| 4 | I can well believe that many Labour supporters changed their minds on polling day after being terrified by newspaper ads warning how much extra tax they would pay under Kinnock ? |
| 5 | One of my many dear children earned himself a creditable degree in environmental sciences a couple of years ago . |
| 6 | The council tax Bill exists because the poll tax was the disaster that so many hon. Members said it would be . |
| 7 | The Provost of Kilmarnock , Mr Mills , and Councillor Stirling were both in attendance as many willing volunteers braved their blisters to complete the course . |
| 8 | Many medieval millers paid their rent to the lord of the manor in eels ; and when the water-mill in the centre of Stafford was pulled down after the last war , the laconic miller expressed as his only regret : ‘ I shall miss the eels . ’ |
| 9 | As rights are issued in the form of a right for so many old shares held we can calculate the impact of the fractional right on the old share value . |
| 10 | Many generous readers sent me lovely ‘ Many Happy Returns ’ cards . |
| 11 | While many social workers told us they were relieved it was not they , but the courts , who would be arraigned in the tabloids if they ‘ got it wrong ’ , this simply passed on the same worries to the courts . |
| 12 | The collegiate and cathedral tradition in which many English singers received their training is comparable in some respects to the context in which medieval ( and Renaissance ) singers received theirs . |
| 13 | Many exciting adventures befell me in capturing these men . |
| 14 | But it was not so long ago that many leading Tories faulted it for being mismanaged , diffused , uncertain , failing to set the agenda ; in a word , bad . |
| 15 | So many august prelates assisted him that it is called the ‘ Bishops ' ’ Bible . |
| 16 | After the Second World War , however , there was a more rapid advance : democratic regimes were re-established in Germany and Italy , and from the late 1970s in Portugal and Spain ; many colonial territories gained their independence , though they did not always develop subsequently in democratic forms ; and at the end of the 1980s the collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe was followed by the restoration , or creation , of democratic political systems . |
| 17 | Many environmental campaigners stressed its failure to set binding targets for resolving environmental problems , and to address adequately the links between third world poverty and environmental degradation . |
| 18 | So many happy memories met her with every step she took . |
| 19 | In addition to developing his own tricks and illusions , Maskelyne was important as an impresario , booking guest performers to appear in his show , and many successful magicians began their careers at the Egyptian Hall : one who never performed there was Houdini , who wrote asking for an engagement in 1898 , before he became famous , and was refused . |
| 20 | How many red lights did you jump , going home ? ’ |
| 21 | More commonly powerful Romans had themselves portrayed with their bodies idealised in the Greek manner and their heads idealised in the Roman tradition — indeed , even Pompey never quite lost his homely Roman countenance The result was an aesthetic catastrophe , but the harshly jarring styles accurately conveyed the confusion of cultures in the early first century BC , a time when many well-to-do Romans completed their education in Athens , but when the moral values expressed in traditional Roman portraits were still considered an essential element in the representation of individuals . |
| 22 | Aspirations which in many Western countries attached themselves to autonomous organizations , pressure groups , and even political parties found no outlet in Tsarist Russia . |
| 23 | Many young girls lost what was then termed as their most prized possession … their virginity . |
| 24 | If the first experience of battle can be seen as a loss of one kind of virginity , a blooding , then many young men lost their virginity in Vietnam . |
| 25 | Mann 's remained famous for stouts and brown ales , and many other brewers sold its bottled brown ale , first introduced in 1899 . |
| 26 | At a meeting of the CNAA Council the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Exeter said that he was ‘ not enthusiastic ’ about the binary policy , and that many other vice-chancellors shared his view . |
| 27 | And how many other women had he made feel like that ? |
| 28 | Coconut palms , mangroves and many unidentified trees confused me considerably , I who had been used to nothing taller than a stunted elder bush in a croft garden ! |
| 29 | This line of reasoning suggests that in Britain coin use was not generally similar to that in the Mediterranean world of the monetised economy , and that many Romano-British communities retained their pre-Roman ‘ embedded ’ economies which were not monetised but depended instead on social and hierarchical relations of redistribution and obligation . |
| 30 | There are many benefits of compulsory competitive tendering in London , but many local authorities resisted it . |