Example sentences of "[prep] be many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The examples described below illustrate all these , though as yet there do not appear to be many instances of disasters in the management of which GIS has played a significant part . |
| 2 | Although these ideals are often met , there seems to be many instances where comments are wide of the mark . |
| 3 | In any case , there are almost certain to be many transactions which are difficult to discover or to understand merely from the books and papers of the company . |
| 4 | As we show in Part Two , there are likely to be many cases where we need to consider jointly two or more objectives . |
| 5 | Similarly there seem to be many cultures in tropical countries where the women get on with the necessary work while the men sit around discussing matters . |
| 6 | The cost of making a mistake , however , is likely to be many times greater |
| 7 | Yet there are unlikely to be many governors or bodies of parents who would disapprove of the more or less traditional approach of putting class teachers first , and there would be few who would persist in wanting the headteacher 's draft management plan — his or her daily manner of organizing and managing the school — to be changed as the result of open and equal argument between staff of all categories . |
| 8 | This topic is too recent for there to be many guidelines available but for a particular topic the designer can assume that he need not be inhibited in allowing his imagination to run to many kinds of novel solutions . |
| 9 | While television coverage has not been monitored in the same way as the press in this study , there seems an increasing focus in television on sexual cases where there are thought to be many victims . |
| 10 | A vaccine against HIV is still likely to be many years away but Dr Michael Murphey-Corb , who led the Tulane team , said he hoped ‘ to see something in five years . ’ |
| 11 | It was to be many years before South Africa could support full-time professional dance companies . |
| 12 | We had another seven years of rationing to come , though we did n't know it , and it was to be many years before things returned to normal , but the war was over . |
| 13 | Mr Woodward knew the area well and there were no railways here at all ; there used to be many years ago and there are still signs of the old trackbed to be seen . |
| 14 | Themes in existence by 1950 were continued in subsequent decades but they have developed so extensively and changed so dramatically that their origins may now appear to be many years away . |
| 15 | It was to be many years later that I learned of the strictures Tata had accepted once he had proposed marriage to my mother , a Roman Catholic . |
| 16 | It was to be many months before the new tsar accepted defeat in the Crimean War . |
| 17 | For example there are supposed to be many wives who would have left their husbands long ago if they had been able to work out how to tell him they were going . |
| 18 | In the Antarctic stratosphere , the lifetime is likely to be many weeks . |
| 19 | That means that in order to stimulate over a large area the intensity of stimulation at the input site is likely to be many orders of magnitudes in excess of normal levels of electrical or chemical activity . |
| 20 | Soon , he lost track of time and it was after what he judged to be many days , he was heartened to hear , occasionally , the far-off sound of metal on rock as his friends tried to clear a way through to him . |
| 21 | The assumption of this explanation is , of course , that there used to be many couples who wanted a divorce but could not have one because their case was not covered by any legislation . |
| 22 | And if you do choose to use teacher-in-role there are going to be many occasions when you 'll have to step out of role to reflect on the work . |
| 23 | She had made her reputation excavating the abandoned Ice Warrior citadels on Mars … at was many years ago in her own personal time-scale , many years in the future of the era she was in . |