Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the century many were moaning that ‘ the pulpit can never again be what it was once — the chief organ of information to the people , the great agent in moulding public thought ’ . |
| 2 | By the end of the century many paleontologists supported the theory of orthogenesis , in which variation was supposed to be pushed in some preordained direction by forces built into the constitution of the organisms . |
| 3 | The range of quality from very good to squalid is of significance , because at one end of the range many authorities view mobile homes as being more or less equivalent to permanent dwellings , while some of the poorer , less well serviced , caravans can not be regarded as permanent homes . |
| 4 | Yet through most of the year many government promises remained on paper . |
| 5 | With the final retreat of the ice many of the cold climate specialists perished ( possibly with the help of man ) , although some of the species that accompany them , like lemmings or musk ox , survive today in the harsh conditions of the arctic tundra . |
| 6 | Such confusion is largely a result of the difficulty many lawyers have when dealing with a highly technical field such as computer science but it does not stop there . |
| 7 | When we first started we were sick of the way many groups would adopt a cool persona for interviews . |
| 8 | There are elements which distinguish social services , and are at the core of the way many social workers operate . |
| 9 | South of the Border many of us consider the predicament of the Scottish salmon to be an international disgrace ; there is such world-wide concern for Atlantic salmon stocks that drift-netting for them is banned everywhere save off England , Ireland and Greenland , where action is being taken . |
| 10 | At the end of the War many men did not return to their former transport jobs , and women became a regular part of the platform staff . |
| 11 | In the rest of the Community many different policy stances are evident . |
| 12 | Following upon publication of the Report many interesting experiments in school-home co-operation were undertaken . |
| 13 | But the danger is still there as long as there are enough weapons to kill the entire population of the world many times over . |
| 14 | The irregularity of his semi-bigamous relationship with Ælfgifu of Northampton ( see Chapter 4 ) and levy of £82,500 in 1018 did not fulfil the Christian king 's duty to tax his people lightly and set them a good example , and in the early years of the reign many churchmen doubtless feared the worst . |
| 15 | Five times the size of Rutland , Buckinghamshire shows every symptom of several standards of assessment : numerous reductions in the Chiltern hundreds in 1524 reduced aggregate wealth from £97 to £67 per thousand acres , while in Buckingham hundreds it only dropped from £84 to £59 , but throughout the northern half of the shire many of the 1522 assessments were retained substantially unaltered , conceivably because the people concerned deemed it prudent to keep their mouths shut and pay up ; a significant number were actually uprated , perhaps penalised for having the gall to seek abatements , so attracting a further , more searching investigation of their means . |
| 16 | Unless Wordsworth 's poetry is studied in the context of the economic history of the time many important points will be missed , and the intention of whole poems may be misconstrued . |
| 17 | He was to follow the course of the stream many times , latterly in the company of William and Dorothy Wordsworth . |
| 18 | ‘ At this stage of the season many managers start to reassess what they have got . |