Example sentences of "many [noun pl] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The workers had heard those words many times before at the Russian Easter night service . |
| 2 | Although the word ‘ reckless ’ had been used many times before in the context of manslaughter , a distinctive doctrine was established in Seymour ( 1983 ) . |
| 3 | Looping the loop at a Manchester airshow as he 'd done many times before in the vintage Spitfire … pilot David Moore from Horsley near Stroud misjudged the manoeuvere . |
| 4 | The ticket collector had seen it many times and would see it many times more before the railways returned to normal . |
| 5 | Creative and productive thinking was taking place in many authorities right across the political spectrum , while the relationship between councillors , officials and the public was changing . |
| 6 | On the technical side , remedial work is in many cases already on the way . |
| 7 | As a result of this pessimism , many important administrative arrangements were settled late in the day in many cases only after the Munich crisis of September 1938 , as in the case of food distribution and transport . |
| 8 | Many skills already in the social worker 's repertoire can be drawn upon and applied to the design and conduct of research on practice issues . |
| 9 | Incomprehensibly , there seem to be as many spotters now in the days of dull diesels and anonymous electrics as there were when we were train-spotters in the last years of steam and the trains bore names like Bihar and Orissa , Baroda , Indore , Drake , Camperdown , and Barfleur , names redolent of history and tradition , summoning up fragrant images of far-off places and the martial rattle of distant centuries . |
| 10 | In preparation for my recent trip to Cyprus I recalled the letter which Ron Swinburne of Birmingham wrote to you many months ago about the flying services available on the island at rates far below those of the UK . |
| 11 | But it was an elderly shipwright on the beach who explained that all foreigners were called that here , since the only other outsider to have lived in the village was an Englishman named Collins , who , it turned out , had spent many months here during the 1930s . |
| 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 | There are many contradictions therefore in the relationship of women to housing , and in the demands that we might want to make . |
| 14 | Very many thanks indeed for the copy of Edward Barnsley . |
| 15 | Many Libyans especially in the smaller towns had been able to move out of the path of oncoming measures of social justice : many would not have been affected in any case ; some had no doubt been caught . |
| 16 | Notebooks provide a way to organize many spreadsheets together in the same file . |
| 17 | These activities are mirrored in many countries all over the world where TNCs are seen as potential purchasers of local goods . |
| 18 | So , somewhat in the footsteps of the pursuers of Colonel Fawcett , who disappeared many years ago into the jungles of South America , I set out after my man , who had slipped away , sadly and silently , back into the dark continent and seemingly into history . |
| 19 | Many years ago opposite the church was the Bay Horse inn . |
| 20 | Indeed , it has been suggested that this is precisely how lion prides arose , many years ago on the prey-rich plains of Africa , where the surplus of food led to an unusual increase in the lion population . |
| 21 | Through her keen interest in horses , Mrs Rowan had read many years ago of the Russian and Mongolian mare herds and the tales of the Huns surviving on the milk during their rampaging campaigns . |
| 22 | These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) . |
| 23 | The loco shed had many sentimental memories for me as my late father had been a mainline driver there many years ago before the branch line , with its four stations , marshalling sidings , loco shed and workshops closed , shortly after the closure of the two adjacent collieries . |
| 24 | Of course , as everyone in the district knows , the path was destroyed many years ago by the Great Landslide . |
| 25 | DNA information was collected for one purpose many years previously in the case of Ray Williams . |
| 26 | That 's your lot that through how many seats there in the front room ? |
| 27 | The research findings will totally update the previous Corpus of Knowledge research which has had so many applications both for the industry nad educators since it was first produced in the late 1970s . |
| 28 | PAY rises are falling , with many deals now below the 3.7 per cent inflation rate , according to a new report . |
| 29 | PAY rises are falling , with many deals now below the 3.7 per cent inflation rate , according to a new report . |
| 30 | Yet the more we look at our surroundings , the more we find that they are in many ways far above the average . |