Example sentences of "[adj] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the redundancy package is too generous many staff will opt for that and not even consider relocating . |
| 2 | However , given current UK time costs , it is unrealistic to believe that many listeners will hear a given commercial many times . |
| 3 | ( And then wistfully , turning on the full power of my innocent blue eyes ) Yes , I 'm afraid many people think that . ’ |
| 4 | Critical reaction was generally favourable , although it was clear many writers found it confusing . |
| 5 | The ground trembled and over-head many bikes , toy tractors , etc. strung above the ceiling for display purposes , came crashing down upon the team . |
| 6 | Oh it 's not a con consistent many people are talking . |
| 7 | The way that many politicians and others have called for the teaching of " facts " and wish to throw out all matters relating to " mere opinion " such as environmental concerns , shows how unaware many people are that there is any problem with regard to the reliability of facts or the possibility of there being evidence supporting beliefs and values . |
| 8 | It is our intention to continue to provide cover for the making good of nipple joints on sectional boilers , although unlike many companies , the following clause which normally appears in brackets after defective joints has been omitted ( ‘ other than joints between the sections of the sectional heating or hot water supply boilers ’ ) . |
| 9 | The book is well produced and unlike many multiauthor books , uses standard typeface and structures . |
| 10 | Northway is a typical example ( if there is such a thing ) of the little rural mills of this region , though unlike many others it is in remarkably good condition . |
| 11 | He could even — and unlike many heroes of Rincewind 's acquaintance — speak words of more than two syllables , if given time and maybe a hint or two . |
| 12 | Asset values are falling to such an extent that it is inevitable many companies will break their covenants . |
| 13 | The superior quality of this mosaic -like many mosaics in when compared with those in Britain , is self-evident . |
| 14 | Both say simply writing the book has helped them come to terms with the experience and it 's a story that 's still gripping many people . |
| 15 | At the same time as the conversion of downland pasture to arable many areas of scrub , particularly gorse , were destroyed . |
| 16 | He liked Mrs. Blick one of the old school , always addressed by name , a caring sort Good Morning Mrs B. Over the years their relationship has developed so that Art now called her Mrs B. He had once served at a library committee but that was when her husband was alive many years ago . |
| 17 | The walls and the floors of her newly redecorated palace -rather garish many thought — are bare , The carpets and the pictures have been created and flown to one of her other homes — perhaps to Juan-les-Pins , perhaps top one of her two places in Paris , perhaps to the house of her fabulously rich businessman son on London , or perhaps to his island in the Seychelles , Her other son , a naval officer who will later pass , briefly and tragically , through this story , dined in his mothers palace one night in October 1978 and , pointing to the one picture remaining on the wall , said , " There 's one they forgot to take . |
| 18 | Cricket and Empire started life as film research commissioned by David Puttnam for a film on Bodyline that was never made — losing out to the unintentionally funny Australian TV mini-series many readers will remember from the early 1980s : ‘ David wanted me to find the ‘ smoking gun ’ . |
| 19 | Perhaps the snake came through the air-vent many times before it killed Julia . |
| 20 | However , I should remind him ( and possible many farmers ) that comparable and cheaper alternative sources of advice are already available . |
| 21 | Their tails wiggle furiously like suckling piglets in their effort to hold against a current many times bigger than them . |
| 22 | Socio-technical system theory has been highly fruitful in generating other academic lines of development : organisation theory , quality of working life concepts and work motivation , in stimulating many innovations in production organisation and in provoking governments to consider legislation in matters such as humanisation of work ( Germany ) and co-determination at work ( Sweden ) . |
| 23 | I could have been married many times , as everyone knows , but I was always so involved with my father 's business and then my own , life was always so full , that I let the opportunities slip by . |
| 24 | Since the possibility of full grammatical coverage is not feasible many systems have been created that are targeted to a specific application domain . |
| 25 | Livestock too present many dangers with one farmer being killed when his Simmental bull attacked him . |
| 26 | The effect of imprinting on the sexual preferences of birds was made famous many years ago by Konrad Lorenz ( 1935 ) . |
| 27 | But a great many rivers are still too polluted for fish to live in them . |
| 28 | At the back there is a long , formal garden , stretching away past ponds and flower beds to an ample pergola , and on the other three sides park land , with a great many hydrangeas . |
| 29 | The next morning brought more early arrivals ; namely , the two ladies from Germany — who had travelled together despite what one would have imagined to have been the great contrast in their backgrounds — bringing with them a large team of ladies-in-waiting and footmen , as well as a great many trunks . |
| 30 | A great many contract negotiations that started from a written set of terms and conditions sent with an offer to negotiate , which in fact produced mainly contracts upon the original terms offered , with little evidence of variations introduced by negotiation , would seem likely to be caught . |