Example sentences of "[coord] of many " in BNC.

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1 Those who know the life of P.B. Shelley , or of many another , will undoubtedly reflect that a man with this exalted view of the erotic life commonly makes a less reliable consort than one with more modest expectations .
2 Gillerthwaite - - ‘ was under the influence of a warm and sportive sunshine , which rendering lazy , while it illuminated the lowing herds of cattle , presented , to the mind 's eye , after their viewing such a scene the results of a Cuyp , a Bergham , or a Potter , or of many an English painter of animals . ’
3 In order for punishment not to be , in every instance , an act of violence of one or of many against a private citizen , it must be essentially public , prompt , necessary , the least possible in the given circumstances , proportionate to the crimes , dictated by the laws ( p. 99 ) .
4 Of these bills of lading , there is commonly three bills of one tenor made of the whole ship 's lading , or of many particular parcels of goods , if there be many laders ; and the mark of the goods must therein be expressed , and of whom received , and to whom to be delivered .
5 There is the further consideration that universities may not indefinitely be secure havens for literary criticism , in the cold economic climate and rampant anti-intellectualism of Thatcherite Britain , and of many other parts of the world .
6 Elia Kazan , director of Arthur Miller 's stage plays and of many films as memorable as On The Waterfront , calculated more shrewdly .
7 An even more devastating depiction of the unpopularity of the Party and of many aspects of the Nazi regime was provided by the Würzburg SD office three months later .
8 To onlookers these men were seen in many cases as ‘ Nonconformist ministers ’ and of many it could be said that ‘ his prayer was like himself , rough and earnest ’ .
9 He had missed his church very much indeed , but our Vicar and the Curate had been constant visitors , and we were both of us upheld by the knowledge of their prayers and of many friends at St Peter 's .
10 The limitation of the power of flight and of many other capacities surrendered as a result of the insatiable appetite of the developing man for ever more ability , was to be at least partially compensated for by the advance of technology in a remote future .
11 Duomo and baptistry are monuments to the wealth of the city and of many Pisans from 1063 till the mid and late thirteenth century , the age of the sculptors Nicola and Giovanni Pisano , whose pulpits are their supreme adornments .
12 So on my behalf and of many others , may I offer sincere congratulations to the Diocesan Vestment Guild and express also true thanks and appreciation .
13 Similarly , there are voices from theologians , politicians and concerned citizens in many parts of the world and of many different persuasions expressing the need for a new ‘ public philosophy ’ and a new ethos of public morality in the 1990s .
14 The cases of the ratepayer , the taxpayer and of many representative applicants ( especially pressure groups ) fall into the latter category .
15 No doubt he took his seat in the Dail arrayed in a coat of many colours and of many shreds and patches .
16 Excavations such as those of the German excavator Heinrich Schliemann ( 1822–90 ) at Troy and Mycenae , of the British archaeologist Arthur Evans ( 1851–1951 ) at Knossos , and of many others at this time began to prove that much more than objects for display in a museum could be recovered from these sites .
17 In an ivory sphinx from Perachora the oriental creature is given a head of a distinctive style found in Greece at this time in works on many scales and of many materials .
18 I have been a friend of your wonderful Rabbi and of many of you for a very long time .
19 This sometimes led to productive and satisfactory change ; but in some classrooms it resulted in confusion as procedures became separated from their underlying objectives , and as teachers strove to balance the conflicting demands of a mixture of well-tried and untried practices , of a wide variety of grouping strategies , and of many different activities going on simultaneously in their classrooms .
20 By the time she herself became headmistress of the North London in 1895 she was well-known in wider circles , as a member of the London county council 's technical education board and of the Bryce commission on secondary education , and as the author of Educational Ends ( 1887 ) and of many articles in journals of education and philosophy .
21 In a few years , the Crown of Thorns starfish , Acanthaster planci , is said to have decimated the corals of the Great Barrier Reef and of many island groups .
22 I agree that the A13 is of fundamental importance for the prosperity of my hon. Friend 's constituents and of many others in the east Thames corridor .
23 The expectations and hopes of those people and of many others , which were given life by the excellent judgment of the Vice-Chancellor of the High Court on 30 July , were cruelly dashed by the decision of the major City shareholders that the bank could not be reconstructed .
24 We criticise the European Commission for its interventions about our roads and about the development of the channel tunnel , but the people of Wales and of many of our regions should also say , ’ We should be making our own decisions , not people down there in London with little or no interest in us . ’
25 It was the custom then to double the size of most infantry battalions and of many gunner and other units .
26 The same is true of the police and the law enforcement officers generally , and of many people who man the emergency services , such as the fire service .
27 This was also the view of the other three main independent surveys ( of Cambridge , Oxford and Scotland ) and of many of the teachers involved ; and by April 1940 officials in Whitehall were privately agreeing .
28 As a result of this potent combination of sentiment and self-interest , the war had assumed the character of something more than a military operation : in the minds of the military and of many civilians , left and right , it had quickly become a decisive test of France 's national will and international power .
29 But of many generations — not forgetting
30 As St Paul reminds us , the body does not consist of one member but of many .
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