Example sentences of "to [adv] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | I finished up in Rome , home to so many of the works I lectured on , and on my last night there I took a walk down to Bernini 's Trevi fountain in order to throw in the coin that would ensure that somehow I would one day return . |
| 2 | But I 've talked , as you know , to so many women , and sex seems to be a wholly other experience . |
| 3 | It seems that on the basis of Canto 7 we can explain Pound 's hostility to Virgil very simply indeed : it was precisely Virgil 's melancholy , the lacrimae rerum which endears him to so many , that Pound could not stomach , so sanguine as he was and so determined to remain so . |
| 4 | Here was the genesis of the myth , destined to lead to so many follies and disasters , that Britain was rich , as well as powerful , because of her Empire . |
| 5 | By the time I was ten it seemed I had lived backstage to so many of those early film sets . |
| 6 | In its asides — quite apart from what he tells us about Milton — we see what it was about Lewis which struck W. T. Kirkpatrick as so remarkable , and which made him such a valued teacher and friend to so many people in the course of his life . |
| 7 | As Mr Imai 's analysis makes clear , the term keiretsu is used to refer to so many different kinds of industrial groups in Japan that generalising about all of them , and especially complaining about them as a group , makes little sense . |
| 8 | She ‘ ran away ’ to London in order to get sleep and rest and not have to talk to so many people every day . ’ |
| 9 | This is no elaborate , townie 's re-creation , overburdened with fancy aesthetics , but a living , breathing original — a mixture of plants for use and beauty , like those that appealed to so many artists around the turn of the century . |
| 10 | It can be surprisingly difficult to avoid , too , because it is added to so many foods and drinks . |
| 11 | I keep hammering away at this point but it applies to so many areas and it 's so rarely done . |
| 12 | Bringing music to so many people has been the great satisfaction of my life . |
| 13 | It would not now be possible in one volume to do any kind of justice to so many . |
| 14 | He learnt all the signs and conventions , very quickly , not only because he made himself student to so many tutors , but because he watched so carefully everything that each one did , with that strange , silent , exhausting attention of his . |
| 15 | I wish to point out that , of course , drugs do have their place and many people gain tremendous relief from them , but they are not in most cases the long-term solution to so many of our problems . |
| 16 | I said that they must n't be sad because he had , after all , crammed so much into his short life , that his parties had given enormous pleasure to so many people , that Conor was the sort of person Jack Kerouac might have loved , he was one of the ones who are mad to live , desirous of everything at the same time , ‘ the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing , but burn , burn , burn , like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars ’ . |
| 17 | Started in 1979 as an amateur effort to amuse and impress his friends , Viz 's lavatorial schoolboy humour appealed to so many people that the Newcastle-based cult comic grew into Britain 's third highest selling magazine . |
| 18 | That money could have gone to so many good causes . |
| 19 | Her short address was tinged with sadness when she referred to Christmas bringing ‘ its own painful stresses to so many people in need — the sick , the old , the handicapped and the homeless ’ . |
| 20 | Ceauşescu knew very well from his travels to so many poor countries ( including some getting poorer even more rapidly than his own ) that he was not alone in promoting a cult of himself . |
| 21 | It was a great joy to get back to so many Burma people , government officers from almost all the departments , and a small number of Burmans , including Paw Tun , chairman of the Executive Council , Htun Aung Gyaw , the Finance Member , and three brilliant members of the Indian Civil Service from one family — Tin Tut , Kyaw Min and Kyaw Tha . |
| 22 | She was , in fact , somewhat ashamed that Edna was witness to so many things which , coming from a large , poor but loving family , must surely be incomprehensible to the girl : Liza 's aversion to picking up her child , never attempting to play with Celia , her obvious relief when Edna performed such tasks which any normal mother might have been expected to undertake willingly . |
| 23 | Experts say there has never been so much free time available to so many people . |
| 24 | The words partial knitting do sound very technical to new knitters but if you are familiar with hand knitting you will discover that partial knitting is what hand knitters term ‘ knit to so many stitches , turn and knit back ’ , although , of course , doing it by machine takes a fraction of the time . |
| 25 | Charlie says : ‘ I think it must be very difficult every day to give so much of yourself to so many people — and not feel in a way that , since you 've given a great deal , therefore you deserve love and warmth when you go home . ’ |
| 26 | The prospect of a betrayal of everything News on Sunday has meant to so many people is there … |
| 27 | Finally , at a sad time for Rosamund and myself , our sincerest thanks to so many rugby friends who have extended , through kind words and deeds , their sympathies to us on the tragic death , after a short illness , of our daughter Charlotte . |
| 28 | Thanks to so many who provided 90 great prizes — especially Air New Zealand , Rhino Rugby Products , Nike , Programme Publications , Rugbyclass Coaching Holidays , England tea members and many more . |
| 29 | He had been called from this office to so many bodies , in such different settings , such different states of dissolution , old , young , pathetic , horrifying , having in common only the one fact , that they were violently dead and by another 's hand . |
| 30 | The emergence of Griffith as the most important director of feature films in America was related to so many of the forces that characterized the Progressive era . |