Example sentences of "many [noun pl] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arms race is almost certainly the product of many interactions at different levels , including domestic politics on each side and technical rivalry between defence establishments . |
| 2 | McLaren boss Teddy Mayer as much as admitted at the end of 1975 that he thought Emerson wanted to move — or that he was in personal trouble of one kind and another — but the official news reached Hunt before it got to the team , and got to Hunt through Domingos Piedade , an eccentric figure close to the cheerful groupie Googie Zanon , a wealthy ( textiles ) Italian aristocrat whose support has been crucial to many drivers at critical points in their career , then ‘ manager ’ to Emerson and now to Ayrton Senna — a fringe career from which Domingos , hugely personable , but also often more a talker than a doer , has made a more than reasonable living . |
| 3 | Many shoes at half-price or less . |
| 4 | Although they battled strongly throughout the game they lost too many counts at crucial times . |
| 5 | While Robson 's view is , today , largely rejected by academic observers , the agency model is still widely adhered to by many practitioners at local level — both councillors and officers — who in the second half of the 1980s see central controls inhibiting their freedom to act in what they regard as the local interest . |
| 6 | It has been my pleasure to meet many members at various functions and both Mary and I look forward to meeting many more of you during the coming year . |
| 7 | There were nearly twice as many accidents at private parties as there were nn er public displays . |
| 8 | At a time when standards of living were rapidly rising at home , our goods abroad , manufactured with the disproportionate vulnerability of too many man-hours at high wage rates , became unattractively priced . |
| 9 | One of our most distinguished lepidopterists , she reflects with pleasure that the butterfly has been ‘ in many lands at different times … a symbol of the soul ’ . |