Example sentences of "[be] in many [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I am in many senses neither asleep nor awake .
2 In stressing this aspect , Marx and Engles were basing themselves in great part on the excellent description that Morgan had supplied for the matrilineal descent groups of the Iroquois , and , in his stress on the community aspect of descent groups , Morgan has been in many ways supported by later work .
3 ‘ But when you look at the legislation , which has been in many ways draconian for the situation which exists today , you have great difficulty in saying who is and who is not under the age of 16 .
4 It should be noted that the two marks and are being used for two different purposes in this course , as they are in many phonetics books .
5 One of the employers interviewed by Margaret Irwin for the Royal Commission on Labour in the early 1890s reported that " the girls in our composing room are in many cases daughters of compositors and machinemen and men employed in other departments of the establishment … they introduce their relations in the form of sisters " .
6 Moreover , the enzymatic cofactors that need to be added in vitro are in many cases not known and tRNA-substrates that specifically lack the nucleoside modification of interest are scarce ( 5–8 ) .
7 Each quotation describes a journey in a carriage taken by the protagonists of works which are in many cases those whose titles bear their names : Emma , Madame Bovary , Clarissa , etc .
8 Selling old books , which are in many cases out of date , has raised £41.64 for the Cancer Relief MacMillan Fund .
9 Published histories of every town or village or suburb are in many cases non-existent , so frequently primary pupils are by necessity plunged into the world of do-it-yourself local history .
10 In addition to volcanic activity hot spots are in many cases associated with significant crustal uplift .
11 Surveys are a way of life with an I B M. as they are in many companies today .
12 The systems of animal production based on crossbred breeding females — sheep and cattle — are in many respects more similar to those of the lowlands .
13 But a little further investigation shows that tortoises are cold-blooded reptiles that lay eggs , while armadillos are in many respects typical warm-blooded mammals bearing their young alive .
14 In the 1990s class divisions are in many respects less consciously felt than they were in the post-war era , but there are other divisions which pose a threat to the sense of community , national identity and social cohesion .
15 The skills and expertise required to manage or advise them are in many respects different to those required in a large organization .
16 What is apparent is that the risk factors identified run parallel to and are in many respects very similar to those already noted in relation to child abuse .
17 The country is divided into thirty-two states which are in many respects self-governing , with laws differing from state to state , although all are subject to the national federal law .
18 If we can suspend the rigidity of the traditional comparisons , we can realise that Matisse and Picasso are in many respects part of the same enterprise .
19 While it is therefore acceptable to talk of Japan as strongly influenced by Confucianism , the emphases of th Japanese brand of Confucianism are in many respects far removed from the Chinese original .
20 It is thus not easy to refute the idea that cultures and outlooks dominated by oral modes , literacy and print , or electronic media are in many respects distinctive .
21 But while her novels of this period — The Languages of Love ( 1957 ) , The Sycamore Tree , ( 1958 ) , The Dear Deceit , ( 1960 ) , and The Middlemen ( 1961 ) — are in many respects typical products of their generation , they raise a number of issues which it was not possible to articulate within the parameters of the contemporary debate .
22 We arrived safely on the 19th [ 18 September according to the Hobart Town Courier ] of September in excellent health , and but for the thoughts of those we left behind should also be in good spirits as our prospects here are in many respects cheering .
23 Though the members of this genus are in many respects typical ascaridoids , their biology is sufficiently varied for it to be necessary to consider each species separately .
24 In addition , and in response to rapidly dwindling forest resources , there are in many nations afforestation programmes on both small and large scales .
25 We forget that early experiences of grief must have been communal , and still are in many societies .
26 Bishop Konstant told the TV reporter : ‘ It is an area where there are great needs , as there are in many parts of Leeds , great social needs — but I think the publicity it has been getting recently is quite unbalanced and it is a good thing to see another side to it .
27 Women of the first group are in many ways utterly dissimilar from each other , differing in language , religion and customs ( see tables 1 and 2 ) , but their roles in the peasant societies they have come from have a lot in common .
28 Islands are in many ways special : so much so that ecologists have coined the expression ‘ island biogeography ’ to describe their particular features .
29 Yet the more we look at our surroundings , the more we find that they are in many ways far above the average .
30 These are in many ways ideal , since they aim at comprehensiveness , are arranged in classified order , and give a good deal of information with each entry .
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