Example sentences of "many of the [noun] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the colour differences among papers are very subtle ; although you can detect them with your eye , they are perhaps too subtle to be translated into the four colour printing process used in magazine productions . |
| 2 | For ‘ nightlife ’ in many of the hostess clubs in the Suzie Wong district , read ‘ rip-off ’ . |
| 3 | Many of the boundary roads to which through traffic would be displaced are lined with housing : as Plowden comments , ‘ the environmental consequences of imposing yet heavier traffic burdens on them can not be dismissed simply by christening them ‘ arterial roads ’ or ‘ distributors ’ . ’ |
| 4 | Even that is not clear : many of the break-up bids of the past decade made good economic sense . |
| 5 | Nowadays it is clear that this distinction is illusory ; scientific applications of computers often require character string manipulation and need many of the transput facilities of business data-processing , while business applications increasingly need sophisticated arithmetic calculation . |
| 6 | It is not difficult to see how role play and drama can be used to achieve many of the Attainment Targets for Speaking and Listening in the English National Curriculum documents . |
| 7 | Many of the child workers at the mine , suffering as they did such long hours and the effect of the physical demands of their labour , would be constrained from attending evening classes . |
| 8 | It is significant that many of the pilot initiatives of the Centre have already been accepted as mainstream activities of the University . |
| 9 | The history of the domestication of many of the fruit trees of the tropics may therefore never be disentangled , though it is known that some of them at least , like the duku and lanseh , forms of Lansium domesticum ( Meliaceae ) , are apomicts . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the possibility remains that , as Wallace argued , many of the sex differences in plumage and coloration ascribed by Darwin to the action of female choice may have evolved because they help the sexes to recognize or locate each other or because they improve male success in competitive interactions . |
| 11 | Buttercream is a popular filling and occasional topping for sponge cakes , and is used in many of the fantasy cakes in this book . |
| 12 | Many of the university members of CASS and its boards were opposed to the principle , especially as it had been adopted before the arts and social studies had any real influence in the CNAA . |
| 13 | Among those clearly and actively wishing their institutions would stick to their old role are many of the with-profits policyholders of the mutual life companies . |
| 14 | My grandmother in Cornwall , as a very old lady , was visited regularly by many of the village children to whom she was just ‘ Granny . ’ |
| 15 | Many of the constituency cases with which I have dealt in recent months have especially worried me because they seem to show that the financial hardship now experienced by many students is especially severe for those who come from low-income families . |
| 16 | Many of the Windows applications on display were running under Windows NT — the new Windows operating system . |
| 17 | In her discussion on the exchange rate mechanism , was she aware of the growing unease of many of the member countries about a fixed exchange rate mechanism covering such a broad spectrum when there is so much uncertainty about German monetary union ? |
| 18 | Working-class leaders — influenced by Marxist hostility to Malthus — disliked these individualistic appeals , although many of the socialite socialists of the Fabian Society , notably the Webbs ( 1907 ) were enthusiasts . |
| 19 | It contrasts in this way both with middle-class speech and with many of the dialect regions of south , mid and west Ulster . |
| 20 | A dextral strike-slip component may well be important , being suggested , for instance , by displacements along the Solent-Rouen-Sennely line , and by the en-echelon arrangement of many of the surface structures in southern England . |
| 21 | What has not been appreciated until recently , however , is that it is possible to see many of the land boundaries of the territorial divisions and ‘ estates ’ of this period on Dartmoor . |
| 22 | It is likely that many of the silver vessels from Ur which closely resemble those of gold were in fact made of electrum , a natural silver-gold alloy . |
| 23 | ‘ He could only talk like that because Ken was religious himself , ’ said John Lahr , who recounted many of the Williams reactions in Prick Up Your Ears . |
| 24 | Add to this the fact that our universities and practically all our major cultural institutions are run by English people , and that many of the executive posts in local government and other organisations are occupied by them , and it will be clear that Scotland is rapidly being colonised , indeed being turned into an extension of England . |
| 25 | This is not uncommon and it has occurred with many of the privatization issues in the equity market . |
| 26 | Moorlands is also well placed for visiting many of the Highland attractions including Loch Ness , famous for its elusive monster ; the Sea Life Centre ; and the Highland Wildlife Park . |
| 27 | Dwelly in fact lists many of the plant names in Cameron , on occasion presenting corrected forms of them , but also draws on other sources which he cites at the front of his dictionary . |
| 28 | Robertson realized that the improvement of communications throughout the area was a pressing need , and became involved in the construction of many of the railway lines on both sides of the Welsh border , including the North Wales Mineral Railway which served the Brymbo ironworks , the GWR Shrewsbury to Hereford line , the LNWR central Wales line from Craven Arms to Llandovery , the Ruabon to Dolgelly line , and the branch to Bala and Blaenau Ffestiniog . |
| 29 | But many of the present-day problems in schools are the result of factors which did not exist in years gone by . |
| 30 | WWF and its mature colleagues in the conservation world have long realised that many of the priority issues with which we are all currently concerned ( rain forest destruction , coastal marine pollution , over-exploitation , loss of diversity ) are issues which have to be tackled in parallel with those of human population increase , extreme poverty , low food production levels , lack of marketable resources and , in a few cases , uncaring , self-centred governments . |