Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | For secondly he sits through many lunches , discussing life and love and never mentioning football . |
| 2 | Clearly that goes through many doors throughout the er the constituency , and it is widely read , people look forward to it . |
| 3 | Therefore , retirement constitutes for many people the end of an important element of life . |
| 4 | Being a teacher today constitutes for many just such an intense set of pressures , stresses , conflicts and uncertainties which often leads people to behave in ways which they do not like , but seem powerless to control . |
| 5 | Raising injection pressures brings particulates down but puts NOx up ; the same goes for many other design changes . |
| 6 | I personally and I 'm sure it goes for many here , have spent a long time in the private rented sector and if the opportunity existed to get into council housing we would have taken it . |
| 7 | It 's a help , but not a complete solution to the problem because once chlorine has been released in the stratosphere , it persists for many years and goes on destroying ozone . |
| 8 | Once a ridge has developed , it often persists for many weeks . |
| 9 | More surprisingly , sometimes a trough develops at about the same position , 15 degrees upstream of the mountains : and this pattern also persists for many days or weeks . |
| 10 | In many cases , these boats have remained in EC waters for many years and have changed ownership several times . |
| 11 | Pessimism is her distinguishing trait : she worries about many aspects of her work . |
| 12 | David Beskine of the RA said ‘ This is not private land but open moorland over which the public has for many years had a right to roam . |
| 13 | In Britain there has for many years been a sub-proletariat , a sub-class of the working class who are far worse off than the main body , consisting of sweat-shop workers and homeworkers , people who are treated by employers as though they have no rights at all . |
| 14 | It is true that by this choice she sacrificed a community life , which has for many women proved nourishing , but she also gained in personal freedom . |
| 15 | And Glotz has for many years now supervised all my recordings . |
| 16 | But within this context , Wilkins ' elegant stuccoed facades will be retained , and an important landmark has been saved and will look far more handsome and dignified than it has for many years . |
| 17 | The Department of Agriculture in Scotland has for many years conducted individual farm assessments with appeal committees on which farmers are represented . |
| 18 | Perhaps for this reason the law in several areas of censorship has for many years remained quietly in the background , yet with an extensive array of legislation to be respected and always at its disposal . |
| 19 | But , in spite of the considerable effort and investment , it has for many years failed to pay its way . |
| 20 | In our diets , emphasis has for many years been laid on the intake of saturated fat as the major danger factor , but this is certainly not the whole explanation . |
| 21 | The Runnymede Trust has for many years been a reliable and valuable resource for anti-racists . |
| 22 | It has for many years been the most widely used method of social research . |
| 23 | There is a puzzle that has for many years intrigued mathematicians and philosophers . |
| 24 | My own company has for many years had the ambition to have our business spread in rough proportion to the pattern of chemical demand in the world market . |
| 25 | The presence of residual pottery in stratified deposits has for many years bedevilled structural chronology , and has also affected the dating of the pottery itself . |
| 26 | A graduate in sociology and education at Florence University , she has for many years contributed articles to Protestant and ecumenical newspapers and currently writes a monthly survey on television for the journal Confronti . |
| 27 | Sara Campbell , curator of the Norton Simon Museum , which owns the complete modèle set of sculptures , has for many years been tracking down all the known casts of Degas ' bronzes and plans to publish the most up-to-date , though necessarily incomplete , account of the status quo . |
| 28 | Lybke has for many years presented his artists in an international context . |
| 29 | Jibé Tribout , a Parisian now in permanent voluntary exile in Pertuis , a small village just outside Aix-en-Provence , has for many years been one of the world 's leading sport climbers , without ever quite reaching the levels of public acclaim accorded to contemporaries such as Patrick Edlinger and Catherine Destivelle . |
| 30 | While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years . |