Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | Causes of change are many — the government , the unions , OPEC , the Argentines , company mergers , new brooms , technological change , recession , unemployment , legislation , EEC — you name it , you 've experienced it in the last few years . |
| 2 | There have of course been many other visits which were either not documented or else which were presented in an ephemeral form . |
| 3 | There have of course been many other television programmes which have touched on the subject of mental handicap , including series such as ‘ Let's Go ’ , a weekly series for the mentally handicapped launched in 1981 , and followed by a second series in 1983 , and ‘ Accident of Birth ’ , a series mainly for parents and people working with the mentally handicapped broadcast in early 1982 . |
| 4 | The reasons for the rise are many , difficult to unravel with certainty . |
| 5 | If you are competing in general obedience , or in trials , the advantages of joining a club are many . |
| 6 | The disadvantages this brings to us , our patients , and our practice are many . |
| 7 | On the other side were many who voiced optimism and trust in the Holy Spirit rather than defensiveness , saw more need for encouragement than for condemnations , and were convinced that there was a new opportunity for liturgical and pastoral use of the Bible which must not be missed . |
| 8 | The church is in Romanesque style , but in this case it is mock-Romanesque , completion being many years after the style had ceased to be used . |
| 9 | Metallic guitar chords , barnstorming organ sounds — the qualities of instrumental rock were many and varied . |
| 10 | Slowly , the European Community is edging towards laws that might make rules on shareholdings and takeovers more homogeneous and more liberal , though a deal is many years away . |
| 11 | The rays of the sun are many through refraction . |
| 12 | The causes of such a major change in attitude are many and varied . |
| 13 | The processes that generate information about an object within a museum are many and varied , raising problems of both theory and practice , particularly when a major institution considers computerising this information . |
| 14 | Definitions of Wilful Act are many and varied and in many cases of little benefit to the claims handler when considering invoking the exclusion to repudiate a claim . |
| 15 | The reasons for such fear , opposition , and misunderstanding are many and complex . |
| 16 | The antecedents ( stage-setting ) for anger and aggression are many and varied , the most basic being the temperamental make up or personality of the child . |
| 17 | Just as the causes of family failure are many and varied , so too the approach to family welfare must be on a wide front . |
| 18 | The barriers to active citizenship are many . |
| 19 | The advantages of having a formal PTA , parents ' association or friends of the school group are many . |
| 20 | Around the latter group were many who had tried the traditional Marxist left and found it wanting . |
| 21 | Of the latter it was said that ‘ their business is many secrets ’ . |
| 22 | This is obvious from the fact that the response to beer and wine is many times higher than that to corresponding concentrations of ethanol . |
| 23 | Vologsky asked , when the Kharkov air-base was many miles behind them . |
| 24 | The philosophical variations on this usage are many . |
| 25 | Undoubtedly these evasions were possible because among the clergy as a whole were many who served the king and depended upon his protection against the rigours of canon law , and because the pope , in his defence of the monarchy , undermined the independence and confidence of the prelates . |
| 26 | The sources of his inspiration were many — ranging from Irish folklore and custom to the politics of international socialism — but his voice was uniquely his own ; in the words of Eavan Boland , ‘ no one else has quite had his themes ; no one else has quite ventured on his enquiries ’ . |
| 27 | Beware of classic howlers such as trees growing out of tops of heads ( the fact that the tree is many yards to the rear of the head in question will not be apparent if there are no visual clues as to the depth of the scene ) . |
| 28 | In the Antarctic lower stratosphere , for solar zenith angles typical of late autumn and early spring , the lifetime of HNO 3 against photolysis is many weeks , whereas that of N 2 O 5 is a few days . |
| 29 | Cultural evolution is many orders of magnitude faster than DNA-based evolution , which sets one even more to thinking of the idea of ‘ takeover ’ . |
| 30 | Such discounts can mean the price is many times lower for the branded drug than for the generic drug and consultants may be unaware of the price in the community . |