Example sentences of "for many [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For many groups this is an idea so novel and daunting that it is unlikely to happen spontaneously .
2 For many groups with such ‘ economies ’ , community and even intercommunity relations are conceived as properly being harmonious ones ( for example , see the following literature on South America : Santos 1986 on the Amuesha of Peru , Thomas 1982 on the Pemon of Venezuela , and Overing Kaplan 1975 on the contrast in ‘ peaceful ’ and ‘ bellicose ’ peoples of the Orinoco Basin at the time of the Conquest ) .
3 For many groups , public-pressure group activity was no sign of their power , but it was a testament to the frustrated powerlessness of those who could not get the ear of government , still less their positive action — no matter what they did or did not do .
4 Professor Flinn found no very wide gulf between wage and price increases and concluded that " contrary to the very commonly made generalisation that rapidly rising prices tended to erode real wages … it seems that for many groups of workers … wage rates in general broadly kept pace with rising prices " .
5 Many thatched cottages were built on the brow of a hill overlooking the sea ; and a large potato-field , divided into elongated sections , gave ample scope for many Lewis families to prove that union is strength , for they were busily engaged lifting the crop : each family group was complete in itself ; those who had the most children got most quickly over the ground : many hands make light work , and young backs bend easily .
6 Accordingly , for many ships without such protection , Bombay was the desired port of destination , and getting a suitable voyage was one of the primary concerns of members of parliament with East Indian connections who included among their constituents captains of East Indiamen .
7 Although this has been particularly influential for many forms of Western Marxism , it also represents a deviation from Marx 's original claim that history is the effect of material conditions rather than of human consciousness .
8 Defaulting is a problem for many forms of catering enterprise .
9 While liver transplantation has become the treatment of choice in the developed world for many forms of serious acute and chronic liver diseases , its role in the management of liver disease caused by hepatitis B virus ( HBV ) and hepatitis D ( or delta ) virus ( HDV ) infection remains controversial .
10 The firm has constructed carriages of various descriptions for almost every railway in the kingdom , and for many lines in other countries — amongst others for Egypt , Sweden Norway , Denmark , Holland , Spain , India and Australia .
11 Sometimes , for many lines together , we can say with Wordsworth — ‘ the words , and the order of the words , in no respect differ from the most unimpassioned conversation ’ ( Preface to Lyrical Ballads ) .
12 Moreover , for many goods , competition is localized due to the spatial nature of retailing .
13 Upon taking office in November Zolotas immediately introduced price increases for many goods and services [ see p. 37051 ] .
14 For many operations this will be all that is required ; others will require further information , such as interview details in the case of an interview letter or offer details in the case of a contract of employment .
15 Model aircraft demand preparation for many eventualities , most of them concerned with crashing .
16 For many cultures , the ‘ right ’ linguistic formulae have a sort of supernatural power : thus Sapir once spoke of ‘ that virtual identity of word and thing which leads to the magic of spells ’ .
17 For many widows , the sudden drop in income was the greatest worry they had to face , and that she was spared , although steeply rising costs , in fuel and rates alone , meant that the old house would be expensive to run .
18 Existing British evidence on widowhood seems to support that conclusion , reporting a tendency for many widows gradually to lose contact with their husband 's relatives , although some do stay close ( Marris , 1958 ) .
19 Such changes would also encourage a more positive and better negotiated start for many step-families which often fail as a result of unresolved divorce issues .
20 For many beginners , reaching , turning and often falling is what an afternoon 's windsurfing consists of , which , although it is comforting and fun to be with the dozens of others who are doing exactly the same , does n't lead to much improvement in their sailing .
21 Although they are good birds for many beginners , they cost about £700 , which makes them too expensive for all but the most dedicated .
22 For many moments , Edward said nothing .
23 The jury will remain out for a year or two yet on whether the operating system can see off the threat from Microsoft Corp and its Windows NT , but Unix is definitely not winning big in the public relations stakes : the Wall Street Journal dismisses Unix as ‘ a catch-all term for many operating systems that share some features and a common parentage ’ .
24 The jury will remain out for a year or two yet on whether the operating system can see off the threat from Microsoft Corp and its Windows NT , but Unix is definitely not winning big in the public relations stakes : the Wall Street Journal dismisses Unix as ‘ a catch-all term for many operating systems that share some features and a common parentage ’ .
25 Not only are there now departments of journalism and creative writing but the academy is now a central source of employment for many writers ( as witness that modern phenomenon the university novel ) ; its members and ex-members increasingly comprise the major audience for many arts ; and , ‘ English ’ has become a theoretical subject like any other .
26 For many writers this is indeed what had happened , and they point to the execution of Hastings on I 3 June as evidence that Hastings ( and perhaps by implication other members of the Yorkist establishment ) had made common ground with the Woodvilles against Gloucester .
27 For many writers the phenomena which are under discussion here are part of more global tendencies .
28 For many writers , the investigation of manufacturing decline stops here , and they propose solutions accordingly .
29 The dominance of the corporate publishing sector is such that for many writers the most available social relations are those of employment in this sense , with the ideas for books coming from new professional intermediaries ( publishers ' editors ) within the market structure , and authors being employed to execute them .
30 For many writers the ‘ conscious parallelism ’ in prices associated with price leadership is the very essence of tacit collusion .
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