Example sentences of "be many [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been many more incidents in the north-east , in particular , and that is why the recent transfer of Mr. J. A. Stevens from being deputy chief constable of Cambridgeshire will doubtless be welcomed in Northumbria . |
| 2 | To sustain carnivores , there must have been many more herbivores ; but the idea that two of each kind were created somewhere and slowly spread and multiplied would not go with real population dynamics . |
| 3 | I think that 's an extremely good point actually , because of course , when one thinks about it and looks at it , there are many many things which are happening in today 's world which are disasters . |
| 4 | Clearly there are many many details to be worked out , and soon . |
| 5 | There are many many examples attached to Jesus . |
| 6 | And so I , I think the Americans are , are doing a good job , er but there are many many pitfalls ahead , and , and I hope that now that we 've got more troops there , that we will be er carefully consulted , er the whole time before any er drastic action is taken . |
| 7 | There are many such traditions , of course , and in fact the Hayward show has little to do with any of them . |
| 8 | There are many such areas , each containing a full or partial representation of the visual field , some of which receive a direct input from the primary area and some of which rely on indirect projections for their inputs . |
| 9 | There are many such instances where secrecy was maintained so that the leader or members of his entourage could remain in office , irrespective of potential or actual damage to government . |
| 10 | There are many such questions to be asked and answered . |
| 11 | There are many such questions which all those in contact with children can pose and which the psychologist can in due course be expected to answer . |
| 12 | There are many such sets , and most of them ( such as the meet/meat alternation ) are highly salient . |
| 13 | But also , from its early stages , the academy could be either a general or , increasingly , a specialized learned society ; there are many such examples , from the thirteenth century onwards , in speculative philosophy , literature and language , and the sciences . |
| 14 | It seems that there are many such proteins , each concerned with the transport of specific substances . |
| 15 | There are many such names in Dutch and Flemish , dating from Napoleonic times . |
| 16 | There are many such compounds in dictionaries ( e.g. the Collins English Dictionary contains about 30,000 compounds ) . |
| 17 | There are many such places in the UK . |
| 18 | But Raynor only said , quite politely , ‘ There are many such castles in Ireland , ma'am . |
| 19 | There are many such occasions when this phrase is used and these are familiar to everyone engaged in fieldwork . |
| 20 | Certainly there are many more women barristers to be seen around beneath the horsehair wigs , and the occasional black or Asian face . |
| 21 | There are many more directions to suit an individual 's needs , but the primary directions always precede any secondary direction that may be given . |
| 22 | There are many more directions than the ones I have mentioned and these may be used according to one 's own particular habit . |
| 23 | In Asia there are many more forests in which the elephant with its enormous strength and lifting power has proved an invaluable aid . |
| 24 | Now there are many more mouths to feed . |
| 25 | But there are many more allocations that are inefficient . |
| 26 | I think that people do n't want to see any more constitutional changes , but there are many more changes in the culture , in the way the Party operates at local , regional , and national level , which we will be addressing , but what we 're not going to have is more constitutional changes , because people feel that we 've made changes , we have moved the Party forward , we 're clear the direction we 're going in , and now the Party at all levels wants to address itself not only to building our membership , but also to showing how the policies we 've got meet the changed world outside . |
| 27 | The autumn passage of birds through Shetland tends to be more noticeable than in spring , and there are several reasons for this : there are many more birds on the move because the migrating flocks include all the young birds raised during the summer . |
| 28 | He notes that ‘ there are many more homophones ( words which sound alike but differ in meaning ) in spoken English than there are homographs ( words which look alike but differ in meaning ) in written English ’ . |
| 29 | There are many more definitions of art besides Tolstoy 's own and those which he denounced . |
| 30 | Later , on July 25 , Blix said that three inspection teams had so far visited more than 30 sites in Iraq and had taken over 300 samples of nuclear material , but that " there are many more things to answer " . |