Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 2 | And , if one accepts the concept that the spirit is journeying through many lifetimes in order to achieve that degree of evolution which makes it unnecessary to spend further time on this earth , then surely it must be essential to experience life both as a man and as a woman . |
| 3 | It has been occurring for many years and has been embodied in legislation such as the Housing Acts of 1935 and 1957 , although numbers of sales have fluctuated considerably according to the political complexions of the government of the day . |
| 4 | Mr , you you 've er commented upon Mr 's objection that he made himself , but of course there are he is appearing for many others , |
| 5 | erm and what makes me suspect not is that Chine Chinese record keeping for many many centuries had been very thorough of course because it 's the basis of the imperial taxation system , so my guess is that the figures are probably fairly reliable . |
| 6 | had dropped by 35% , increasing unemployment and ending for many farmers a link with the land which stretched back many generations . |
| 7 | Much will depend on how it seeks to solve the long-running debate about merging income tax and the national insurance system ; whether benefits , including pensions , are to be universal or selective ; and , if selective , how the state is to deal with obligations to people who have been contributing for many years to what they were told was national insurance . |
| 8 | Very best wishes to you and we hope you keep painting for many years to come . |
| 9 | A further example is when an organisation which has been trading for many decades finds itself increasingly out of touch with the market and the organisation 's internal culture and style is no longer appropriate to the markets it is trying to address . |
| 10 | There was a real bond of friendship and understanding between many of the great churchmen of this age and leading warriors ; it would be a nice point to decide whether the happiness of St Margaret 's marriage to King Malcolm of Scotland ( see p. 210 ) was more or less remarkable than the depth of St Anselm 's friendship with Hugh of Avranches , the first earl of Chester , the savage hammer of the Welsh . |
| 11 | It is happening with many other crimes , as crime figures spiral out of control . |
| 12 | Pupils ' active involvement in the learning process is important in enhancing their knowledge and understanding in many subject areas . |
| 13 | In Nepal , dolphin habitat has traditionally been in deep clear water with swift currents , but hydro-electric development is occurring in many of the susu 's favourite remaining areas . |
| 14 | Outside Africa , desertification is occurring in many other arid and semi-arid regions . |
| 15 | Afforestation on a localised scale is also occurring in many developing countries to provide a protective cover for the soil in agricultural systems that are threatened by excessive soil erosion and desertification ( section 7.2 ) , the provision of fuelwood and , in many cases , a crop . |
| 16 | He believes that the direct exploitation of natural forest , as is occurring in many tropical regions , is equivalent to ‘ hunting-gathering ’ while the managed natural forests of North America , for example , have reached the ‘ farming ’ stage . |
| 17 | With atrocities occurring in many townships almost daily , a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party central committee , Musa [ Myeni , warned on May 5 that the party would deploy 100,000 armed men in Soweto township on the Johannesburg outskirts , and 250,000 nationally , unless the ANC halted its violence within seven days . |
| 18 | Occurring in many , widely separated places is the circular planned , stone church , like that already mentioned at Fulda . |
| 19 | It should be added that , whilst pressure measurements are often very useful in wind-tunnel and similar studies , the pressure variations occurring in many experiments , for example in the field of free convection , are too small to be measured . |
| 20 | In particular , Grolier 's books are famous for gilt stamps on the upper covers : sometimes ‘ Grolierii Lugdunensis et Amicorum ’ ( 'for Grolier of Lyons and his friends ' , Lugdunum being the Latin name , appearing in many publishers ' imprints , for Lyons ) ; sometimes just ‘ Io Grolierii et Amicorum ’ ( for Grolier and his friends ) ; and , almost always on the lower cover , a text from the Vulgate , Psalm cxli . |
| 21 | The really valuable experience comes from landing in many different , unfamiliar places , whether they are fields or large aerodromes . |
| 22 | But the fact should also be faced that these two developments represent in microcosm what has happened and is happening in many of Britain 's older industrial towns . |
| 23 | I 've been quite frightened by what is happening in many areas of conservation and environment problems , and I decided that the best , one of the best , courses that I could take was to incorporate conservation in my work . |
| 24 | Inbreeding appears to outweigh crossbreeding in many stocks of arctic plants , a condition that may be adaptive in a harsh environment where interspecific competition is insignificant . |
| 25 | As a relative newcomer to The Artist I am revelling in many of your articles . |
| 26 | Margins and jobs are still shrinking in many industries and corporate debt has doubled in the last five years . |
| 27 | Well Done , all those Teachers and Class members who have been contributing in many ways , and keep it up in 1985 . |
| 28 | Lawrence , who , besides representing to many of his admirers in political circles the very quintessence of those qualities on which the successful transformation of empire into Commonwealth would depend , was an imperial hero to the British public . |
| 29 | She has offered her plight as an example of what is happening to many small producers . |
| 30 | The population has now become much more dispersed , with birds occurring on many of the larger lakes , reservoirs and areas of gravel pits in the county . |