Example sentences of "[verb] to many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He contributed to many newspapers and magazines , one of them the Weekly Dispatch , in whose pages he was in 1885–6 an early advocate of the formation of an independent Labour party . |
| 2 | He did n't mind admitting that he was attracted to Phil Prior , but then he had been attracted to many girls in the past . |
| 3 | John Elderfield 's sumptuous catalogue of the current exhibition which he has curated for New York 's Museum of Modern Art will appeal to many tastes and is , as a result , this season 's obligatory purchase . |
| 4 | Inside the plant , levels of radiation in the abandoned reactor building rose to many times the lethal level . |
| 5 | Yet genes do not act in isolation , and very little is known about social and environmental factors contributing to many illnesses and disabilities , including those tagged ’ genetic ’ . |
| 6 | Bay trees grow well in almost any country and the dried leaves are added to many stews and casseroles , as well as to countless other dishes . |
| 7 | Soya flour is a good iron source that can be added to many foods ( sauces , curries , bolognese , meat dishes like stews or cottage pie , bread or home-made cake mix , porridge ) . |
| 8 | The lessons of one political movement are vital to relate to many others . |
| 9 | The possibility that natural communities could be visualized in similar terms occurred to many biologists in the later decades of the century , thus providing an incentive to study the interactions upon which the whole network depended . |
| 10 | It happens to many scientists . |
| 11 | It was not necessary , however , to travel to one of these fashionable watering places to partake of the health-giving beverage , and ‘ taking the waters ’ at a local spring or spa ( spaw to many Northeners ) became very popular during the last century . |
| 12 | We have applied to many sources of possible grant support for these costs , such as the Lingua Project , the DAAD and industry . |
| 13 | But undoubtedly he was right on the mark when he wrote in his essay on Thomas Parnell some words which might aptly be applied to many writers at present being collected : |
| 14 | User-defined general formulas , stored separately from data , that can be applied to many cells at once , reducing the complexity and increasing the readability and ‘ shareability ’ of spreadsheets . |
| 15 | Indeed , the future of European liberty is largely a development of this concept of liberty applied to many kinds of corporate body . |
| 16 | The rise in sea level caused by global warming , for instance , is likely to lead to many deaths and to large changes in population , as a result of flooding . |
| 17 | According to many accounts , middle-class complacency was severely shocked by the evidence of the children 's condition : in Newcastle , for example , of 31,000 children registering for evacuation , 13% were found to be deficient in footwear and 21 % deficient in clothing ; in Scotland , 39% of children turned up in clothing that was ‘ bad or deplorable ’ . |
| 18 | The discussions of youth problems on the pages of Zhongguo Qingnian did not offer realistic advice according to many students . |
| 19 | However , according to many suppliers , pasta shapes are rapidly increasing in popularity . |
| 20 | According to many legends , caches of treasure are usually guarded from meddlesome mortals by a spirit or god . |
| 21 | According to many interpretations of his work , Marx sees capitalist society as divided into only two classes of any importance : the bourgeoisie and the proletariat . |
| 22 | Engineering , which played so central a role in this country 's industrial development , now has little more than a bit part according to many economists and politicians . |
| 23 | By finding ways to reduce stress , for instance , according to many practitioners it is possible to look ten years younger , your quality of life will be enhanced and the benefits will also manifest themselves in longevity . |
| 24 | According to many Marxists then , the positions in the class structure occupied by most routine non-manual workers have been proletarianized . |
| 25 | WASL has written to many galleries , gallery co-ordinators and exhibition organisors and invited them to visit the organisation and view the collection . |
| 26 | Such gestures appealed to many Romanians , as they did to Western observers anxious to see Ceauşescu as a ‘ patriot ’ and reformer . |
| 27 | I speak to many farmers — large and small — including some in my hon. Friend 's constituency . |
| 28 | With the advances in information technology , answers to many questions could be delivered in minutes , not just on industrial issues , like how cold does it have to be before we stop work , or how heavy a load should I lift , but other questions not related to work that we have not always answered in the past . |
| 29 | A given sensory cell is connected to many axons in the optic nerve , and each axon in the optic nerve receives inputs from many sensory cells . |
| 30 | In order to show that there are differences in language , therefore , we have to listen to many hours of tape-recorded speech , select variables that we believe may pattern in some way , and quantify . |