Example sentences of "[verb] by many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The resulting knock-down sale at the end of the day was eagerly awaited by many people , who were able to buy a basket for 6d . |
| 2 | They are deemed by many players as the less difficult half , that if a good score can be put together here , it can be enhanced on the back nine . |
| 3 | I used to work with an ex-BBC engineer who revelled in the fact that , in his day , Radio 3 , which was deemed by many hi-fi buffs as tonal nirvana , emanated from studios with ageing turntables and consoles , odd lengths of disparate signal cable were employed and much of it was held together with string and Sellotape . |
| 4 | This point is being stressed by many organisations representing the interests of people with physical , mental or educational disabilities . |
| 5 | Even the smallest of sole practitioners can benefit from DIY CPE by combining with other professionals , perhaps via the discussion groups organised by many district societies . |
| 6 | It 's claimed by many people that we live in a cycle where , if you like , we struggle to get through fifty weeks of the year to live for holidays recharge the batteries , then you go into it again . |
| 7 | This so-called ‘ hidden curriculum ’ is claimed by many feminists to be at least as important in child development as the formal curriculum ( see , for example , Byrne , 1978 ) , and has been subject to intensive study ( e.g. Spender and Sarah , 1980 ) . |
| 8 | The latter are worth noting as typical of the general philosophy claimed by many schools to underpin their project involvement : |
| 9 | On an individual level I have been supported and validated by many lesbians of Afro-Caribbean and Indian sub-continent descent . |
| 10 | We have been approached by many members and friends who wish to contribute towards some form of memorial in thanksgiving for the life and work of our late founder and President Molly Braithwaite who died on 19th January this year . |
| 11 | The staff of both periodicals were approached by many artists , some of whom were on the list and many more who were not . |
| 12 | The broad guiding principle , attested by many authorities , is that one looks to see what the taxpayer has done to earn the profit in question . |
| 13 | Thus , although capitalism is blamed by many workers for the treatment older people receive today , it is clear that ageism has a history which long predates this form of social organisation . |
| 14 | YWA 's answer to the Guest Tea has been the annual Treasure Hunt and Barbecue which has been enjoyed by many Edenderry members and friends in recent years . |
| 15 | It has also been argued that the halting of peasant movement in the Ukraine and the extension to it in 1783 of the poll-tax , which doomed the Ukrainian peasant to serf status , were inspired by a desire to end the privileged position enjoyed by many border areas of the empire , and to some extent by the need to increase revenue , rather than by the extension of serfdom as a matter of policy . |
| 16 | The bill also breaches the confidentiality enjoyed by many professions — notably lawyers , doctors and journalists — who do not usually have to give up their files to the police . |
| 17 | In addition , increasing car ownership and high-speed road provision has been a main factor in the massive increase of rural recreation enjoyed by many people since the 1950s , and discussed in Chapter 7 . |
| 18 | Apart from the obvious benefits to those who , like myself , suffer with-gall stones , I was surprised to read so many other benefits to health that had been enjoyed by many volunteers . |
| 19 | The true facts of the matter have been clouded by many cases where the exact nature of the staccato did not greatly matter and where consequently Mozart made no deliberate effort to distinguish the two types . |
| 20 | Standards of typography will rarely be a decisive factor in selection , but there is no doubt that small print is disliked by many readers — including those with good eyesight — and should be avoided on the relatively rare occasions that alternatives are available ( for instance , with the different editions of popular classics , or with light fiction , where the choice is very wide and content is less variable ) . |
| 21 | This gave rise to the growth of the movement for ‘ gifted children ’ , a movement resented and disliked by many schools . |
| 22 | Power transformations are a very important part of the researcher 's armoury ; while the exponents of exploratory data analysis stress them ( Tukey 1977 ; Mosteller and Tukey 1977 ) , their use is applauded by many statisticians ( e.g. Kruskal 1978 ) . |
| 23 | Experiments aimed at investigating this issue have been reported by many workers ( e.g. Anderson , O'Farrell , Formica , and Caponigri 1969 ; Anderson , Wolf , and Sullivan 1969 ; Dexter and Merrill 1969 ; Bouton and Bolles 1979 ; Lovibond et al . |
| 24 | These berths might also be improved for the build-up phase , by bulldozing earth ramparts to speed the offloading of bulk stores carried by many LSTs . |
| 25 | As a young man he had been pursued by many women ; that he secretly despised them did not lessen his attractiveness but in later years his large family and increasing years had hung about him with a weight as great as any deformity : but he would never risk exposing himself as Rose had . |
| 26 | He said the diets , recommended by many GPs , have little impact on blood fats — believed to contribute to heart disease . |
| 27 | Composed of an allover arrangement of repeating vases and considered by many experts to be one of the most aesthetically accomplished of all Persian designs . |
| 28 | Although attractive as a cost-controlling measure , the fixed budget was considered by many experts to be unrealistic in practice , particularly when funding projects which required the development of new technologies . |
| 29 | While these assumptions are considered by many educators to be oversimplistic , they nevertheless serve to draw attention to specifically adult learning needs of which tutors in adult education need to have and understanding . |
| 30 | ‘ Hepatitis B has long been recognised as a risk to healthcare workers and is now considered by many authorities to be the most important infectious occupational disease , and yet we are still failing our workers , ’ she said . |