Example sentences of "many [prep] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , there are too many for them to have been purely phonetic or syllabic . |
| 2 | The delegates went to the border and spent three days there screening hundreds of people and conducting in-depth interviews with many of them . |
| 3 | She is looking for critical views against which to pitch her own ; it seems that she may have chosen the wrong sort of topic , since on a holiday in Italy she had been stunned by the newly renovated Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and although there were plenty of books about it , many of them went into extravagant detail . |
| 4 | A more mundane project for a survey writer is to scan Western art , which has often been attempted in series of books , many of them , as Roger Fry 's comments implied , by German historians . |
| 5 | The first difficulty is , despite the destructions , the enormous number of existing pictures , many of them signed , and in one way or another more or less Bellinesque . |
| 6 | There was a time when it must have seemed to many of them that he would never receive a bad review , or even a cross word . |
| 7 | It is clear that in the past many of them have considered loyalty to be a two-way process , a contract or covenant , and that the state could be a traitorous party as well as the people . |
| 8 | Many of them appear to have been angered and disappointed at the church 's suppression of the proposed scheme . |
| 9 | In the North , clergy dominate the catholic sector , while a protestant and loyalist culture predominates in the state schools — albeit with a developed secular and liberal aspect in many of them . |
| 10 | The remaining passengers — there were not many of them — had in the meanwhile managed to make their way , by scrambling from the outside of one car to the next , to the safety of the solid wooden landing stage . |
| 11 | ‘ You read too many of them detective stories . ’ |
| 12 | It took many of them an awful long time even to introduce themselves . |
| 13 | In their defence , I 'm not the most approachable woman in the world and many of them were simply unused to female company . |
| 14 | My colleagues seemed genuinely worried by my decision and many of them tried to convince me to change my mind . |
| 15 | A garden is a balanced community of plants , creatures and micro-organisms , many of them beneficial . |
| 16 | One of his particular enjoyments at camp was the log-fire singing , whose ebullience and rhythms remain with him even today , many of them drawn from The People 's Song Book . |
| 17 | The only small crumb of comfort is that , since May 1990 , tenants ( but not managers ) of national brewers ' pubs can buy guest cask ales free of the tie — but the nationals have been quick to dominate this new market niche by organising their own lists of ‘ guest beers ’ , many of them brewed by their own subsidiaries . |
| 18 | He fears the impact on the traditional character of pubs if the brewers have their way and turn many of them over the leaseholders . |
| 19 | Many of them live out in the provinces so we keep a good range of beers that include some from their part of the world , ’ explained Jim . |
| 20 | Many of them are only followed for the first pitch , either because they finish up easier slabs ( which might well suit some people ) or become much harder . |
| 21 | Until a few years ago most wood dyes tended to fade in strong sunlight , but now many of them contain transparent iron oxides , which do not fade and can be used on interior and exterior woodwork . |
| 22 | Simulators have come a long way in recent years and today many of them use screen addressing to update the information . |
| 23 | Many of them would do perfectly well in disciplines which are less idiosyncratic than English and have a more obvious international currency , like linguistics or economics or marketing . |
| 24 | In many of them , particularly criminal cases , the interests of the client may be quite different from those of the public . |
| 25 | As the East German trains pulled into the border station of Hof the first refugees , many of them in tears , were greeted with cheers , applause and a local youth group singing the Beatles song ‘ Let It Be ’ . |
| 26 | Many of them are not used to disabled people , and , being temporary , they rarely get to know her anyway . |
| 27 | The fact that so many of them played together for the Lions will be an important help . ’ |
| 28 | The ‘ expellees ’ have in any case ‘ isolated themselves ’ from East German society , they are ‘ mindless strays ’ , many of them are ‘ antisocial ’ and the country is better off without them . |
| 29 | It said villagers were forming detachments , many of them equipped with automatic rifles and home-made explosives . |
| 30 | If Les Negresses Vertes tend to jostle on the stage like animals being herded down a narrow street , it is partly because there are so many of them ( 11 , when all the strays are rounded up ) , but also because , even as the show begins , several key members appear to be too drunk to be capable of motion in a straight line . |