Example sentences of "many [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two styles are — or should be — a conscious response to the question of whether the brief monitoring of many or even all the children in a class is more effective in promoting learning than more sustained interactions with a smaller proportion . |
| 2 | As there are often only half a dozen wash-basins , turns must be arranged and children soon realise that there are too many or not enough children for the basins available . |
| 3 | Indeed the two values are often extremely difficult to disentangle and there is a good reason for this ; for any given adjective , in many or most actual situations where the one interpretation may be applied correctly , the other will apply also ; in addition , for many adjectives , even in principle , the semantic distinction may be vanishingly small . |
| 4 | But already in some nineteenth-century cases , and commonly in the twentieth century , a group has formed around some much more general programme , including many or indeed all arts , and often additionally , in relation to this , some very general cultural ( and often ‘ political ’ ) position . |
| 5 | Write as many or as little as you can , but be honest ! ’ |
| 6 | As many or as few as desired . |
| 7 | You can travel as many or as few miles as you wish , but remember every lock you pass through you 'll be tackling on the way back . |
| 8 | From then on you 're free to choose as many or as few books as you wish . |
| 9 | You must always include a General , but apart from this you are free to choose as many or as few characters as you wish . |
| 10 | You must always include a General , but apart from this you are free to choose as many or as few characters as you wish . |
| 11 | The preferences could include as many or as few of the candidates as the voter wished . |
| 12 | It was run by Alfred Rozelaar Green who , having lived and worked in Paris before the war , wanted to imitate in London the French free academy system which offers an open house to anyone wishing to draw , paint or sculpt for as many or as few sessions as they wish . |
| 13 | A user of the TEI scheme may combine as many or as few additional tagsets as suit his or her needs . |
| 14 | The north , due to fewer hours of less warm sunshine , and more severe winters , does not have as many or as big carp as the south . |
| 15 | One of the most striking qualities evident here is its unity , not a note too many or too few . |
| 16 | Does this mean that too many or too few people drive cars in the rush hour ? |
| 17 | You are receiving too many or too few copies of the Globe each month |
| 18 | My opinions were indeed in many and most important points erroneous ; but my heart was single . |
| 19 | Oblivious to us swanning by , they show no emotions , unlike me , all full of excitement at so many and so close . |
| 20 | Half of it , no where there are so many and so much in electronics which conflicts with one another . |
| 21 | The scenes of horror and infamy on board of a man-of-war are so many and so great that I think they must rather disgust a mind than allure it . ’ |
| 22 | So many and so extraordinary were the stories she told me that our trip around his tiny château lasted for more than an hour and a half , with not a boring moment . |
| 23 | Even if teachers were given the time and opportunity to develop their professional lives in the ways they felt most suitable , the questions and dilemmas that face them are so many and so deep that it is indeed a daunting task . |
| 24 | The conceptual requirements are to be clear and exact in our use of these and subsidiary terms , and to confront and seek to resolve the many and often contentious value issues which each of them raises . |
| 25 | To complete , the whole piece was dressed down with as many and as fine cuts as possible again using different angles of attack , all the time experimenting . |
| 26 | Apart , then , from those for whom the virtue of representative democracy is precisely that it restricts and restrains popular power , and even , as in Britain , involves the vesting of sovereignty in the representative institutions rather than in the people themselves the chief argument in defence of representative democracy has been an essentially pragmatic one : that it is the best that can be devised in the context of large societies where the citizens are too many and too scattered to be gathered together in one place . |
| 27 | He stumbled to his feet and looked frantically about him , because although no self-respecting Gruagach would run from a danger , these creatures were too many and too huge and too angry . |
| 28 | Montague 's tone is too shallow and lacking in body in the lower register to do justice to this ‘ breeches ’ role , and Ricciarelli , though often touching , has all too many and too conspicuous vocal difficulties above the stave . |
| 29 | ‘ Quality assurance ’ is a fundamental part of the Education Act 1988 and is central to many if not all of the reforms . |
| 30 | Changes in these practices were stimulated , in many if not all cases , by the need to respond to population pressure ; once again , the same problem may have invoked a different response in different cultural milieux . |