Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] for many " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is used as base for many cocktails , but one of my favourite ways of serving the stuff is with a little help from the hedgerows . |
| 2 | Such surveys formed the basis for research for many years and still remain the principal source for some categories of data . |
| 3 | As in the Congress of People 's Deputies elections in March 1989 [ see p. 36513 ] , practices reminiscent of elections held before the introduction of the democratic reforms under Gorbachev continued to prevail , including artificially high turnouts , a lack of choice between candidates for many seats , and overwhelming communist majorities . |
| 4 | The Russian revolution had swept away the most cruel and backward government in Europe and become a symbol of hope for many people , a symbol that ideas of freedom and justice could overcome tyranny . |
| 5 | Sir John and his beautiful wife , Mrs Leybourne Popham , enjoyed the ownership of Littlecote for many years and their descendants for generations afterwards . |
| 6 | That is to say , each dug-in group of British soldiers could expect to be facing the same dug-in group of Germans for many months . |
| 7 | Mixed exhibitions are ideal for spotting talent ahead of the market , as well as being a significant source of income for many artists . |
| 8 | 1992–93 will be remembered as a good year for the University of Stirling for many reasons . |
| 9 | The choice of brand for many club runners . |
| 10 | the preparation of quite large amounts of text ( letters , job descriptions , contracts ) with a considerable amount of repetition of common material ; 2. the creation and maintenance of files containing a mass of details about people and their subsequent analysis to provide information in a wide variety of forms for many different purposes Both these activities can be considerably simplified and streamlined using computers Word processing systems are eminently suited to the first . |
| 11 | Standing at the corner of Great Tower Street and Seething Lane , in the very shadow of the Tower of London , All Hallows must have been as impressive a building then as it is today : one of the oldest parish churches in the City , it has always had close links with the Tower itself , and was used as a place of burial for many an unfortunate wretch executed on the nearby scaffold . |
| 12 | The border counties were a cradle of industry for many years and the line 's picturesque position belies its importance to the region . |
| 13 | SANTA SPECIALS which are a great source of revenue for many railway societies throughout the British Isles arrived in Dublin for the first time on Sunday , December 6th . |
| 14 | Later old age does involve a series of losses for many people which have to be surmounted , whether it is loss of physical activity or sight , hearing , loss of house or home , or the death of those close in affection . |
| 15 | They make major depredations on oyster beds and the recent activities of the ‘ Crown of Thorns ’ starfish ( Acanthaster ) in chewing up great chunks of the Great Barrier Reef have become a modern ecological object lesson ( and , incidentally , a source of funds for many marine biologists ) . |
| 16 | This was hardly a crucial ultimatum but , coming from a moderate , indeed sympathetic Frenchman , it suggests that the French , generally , were beyond the point of no return ; while for the Vietminh , with assorted military forces estimated at 60,000 , having already lost Haiphong as the point of entry for many of their weapons and in danger now of facing overwhelming French fire power in Hanoi , the temptations of a pre-emptive strike , even if it was an act of desperation , must have been irresistible . |
| 17 | A continuously low level of investment for many years has stunted the possibility of the ‘ First Industrial Revolution ’ turning into a ‘ Second ’ . |
| 18 | The F-4500 has a scan speed of 30 000 nm per minute and a slew rate of 60 000 nm per minute , thus accelerating the acquisition of data for many applications including three-dimensional measurements . |
| 19 | This is not a full list , but only those more important features that I remember — items which would no doubt delight Labour and the unions , but spell the death of profitability for many British firms . |
| 20 | Sometimes the ambivalence took an unexpected turn , as when the rebels under Odo , bishop of Bayeux , held the town and castle of Rochester for many weeks against his nephew , King William Rufus , in 1088 . |
| 21 | Sole at the heart of Scotland for many years to come Robert Armstrong on the consummate skills of the new national captain . |
| 22 | This hit the potential female electorate particularly hard , since the Civil War had frustrated the possibility of marriage for many women . |
| 23 | Firstly , it is a family archive covering the period since the thirteenth century ; secondly , the dukes of Norfolk have been Earls Marshal and Hereditary Marshals of England for many centuries ; and finally , as the family has adhered to the old religion , many documents have an important bearing on English ( Roman ) Catholic history . |
| 24 | As ‘ Lilla ’ has been kept in the South of England for many years its trip to Bala gives Northern fans of these locos a chance to see this one of two in British preservation . |
| 25 | These have been a matter of regret for many , including the commercially minded judge . |
| 26 | Not only do they receive the first offers of any work that is available ( and in other than special circumstances always accept such offers ) , but also the organisations for which they work undertake a sufficient volume of business to make offers of work for many days each week and for most weeks of the year . |
| 27 | Pravda claims that red mercury was first synthesised in 1968 and has been smuggled out of Russia for many years . |
| 28 | This has led to an increasing separation of place of work and place of residence for many rural residents , a trend that has been reinforced by the decentralization of population from towns ( chapter 4 ) . |
| 29 | The use of CCL as a common type of interface for many systems is based on the provision of translating software somewhere in the communication channel between host and the user , rather than in the user 's own terminal equipment , as in the previous examples . |
| 30 | He says : ‘ I have worked very closely with the University of Bristol for many years . |