Example sentences of "[art] [adj] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the snake came through the air-vent many times before it killed Julia . |
| 2 | It is in fact the first of the great many spas you meet with in the Pyrenees , when coming from the Atlantic coast , good , so one aged guidebook has it , for ‘ nervous people , the neurasthenic , the scrofulous , the lymphatic , the dyspeptic , the rheumatic , the enfeebled , the asthmatic … |
| 3 | The little museum at Isturits shows some of the great many animal bones uncovered there , of bears , reindeer , mammoth and the rest ; as well as examples of the flint , horn and bone weapons and tools which the generations of cave-dwellers made . |
| 4 | THANK you to the great many readers who have written to me in the past couple of weeks about the Royals . |
| 5 | The anthropologists have to point again and again to the great many societies in which spouses are arranged and not freely chosen . |
| 6 | Rogers had flown over the Front many times , and he thought of it as two huge armies entrenched against each other , launching and repelling attacks massively and obviously ; but now , he supposed , the fog must have dissolved the armies into isolated soldiers , each fighting his own tiny battle , with no way of knowing whether his side was winning or losing . |
| 7 | I have noticed this just as clearly as the above many times while half asleep in bed but never had paper handy and so never wrote it down … |
| 8 | All the same , some power remained and the majority of academics were Jesuits or Dominicans or members of the other many orders . |
| 9 | The marginality they experience within the force might lead them to exaggerate their job satisfaction , but this cuts both ways , for the unpopularity of community relations among many ordinary members of the RUC guarantees it will not appeal to any but the committed , and section duties already afford the work-shy many opportunities to hide . |
| 10 | We look very carefully at any new posts that we create , and we constantly look to see whether there are posts that we can get rid of erm and we have , in fact , shed a great many posts erm over the last year erm and we are constantly reviewing the efficiency of our service delivery . |
| 11 | I have shaken hands with a great many friends , but there are some things I want to know which no-one seems able to explain . |
| 12 | There were always a great many students who took English as a subject in First Arts . |
| 13 | Recently , experimental work has investigated the use of the programmed technique in what is now called computer-assisted learning , where the programmes are fed into the computer ; the machine can then , if the initial preparation has been thorough enough , monitor the responses of a great many students at a time , switching them to the appropriate branching sequence as their responses demonstrate the need . |
| 14 | There will be a great many art teachers for whom this particular aim and the other concepts listed above will represent the whole raison d'etre of their work . |
| 15 | I have not yet beckoned to her so that she will come running to me , so that I shall lie with her today and tonight and tomorrow , and for a great many tomorrows . |
| 16 | I used to do the Countess 's hair , and she was pleased with me ; in those days it was a matter of a great many curls , and diamond clasps and the like , on ladies ’ heads . |
| 17 | This may be true — it is already true of a great many regulations with which companies must comply — but it may also reflect the fundamental nature of financial regulation . |
| 18 | She put a great many potatoes on my plate after she had served the hot salmon . |
| 19 | Even the Dutch , who colonized the nation longer than any other Western power , were more interested in trading posts than in exploration , and vested their authority in the local chieftains who in turn vested theirs on down the line so that a great many Indonesians have still never seen a European . |
| 20 | A great many meetings needed to be held . |
| 21 | Against these criticisms , the Royal Commission noted that it had heard from ‘ witnesses representing a wide range of interests a great many tributes to the integrity of the police ’ . |
| 22 | Sadly the answer " No " is rarely given to this question and because of this a great many releases go out which are of marginal interest to the recipients . |
| 23 | In this way the homosexual writer is granted a dubious measure of liberal pity ( ‘ if only he had n't lived in such a repressive world ’ ) while at the same time the heterosexual critic distances the threatening possibility that a homosexual writer might have a great many insights into the codes , mechanisms and ideologies of heterosexuality itself . |
| 24 | The next step of adopting a coach as a father figure is more dubious , however , though a great many sportsmen would describe their trainers or managers as Maurice Hope describes Terry Lawless : ‘ He 's been like a father to me ; no , more than a father , actually . ’ |
| 25 | This is not always so , but according to a great many sportsmen , their overconcentration on sport , often as a result of the encouragement of teachers , led to a neglect of academic work with the consequence that examination results failed to convey accurately what they felt to be their actual capability . |
| 26 | Perhaps the most obvious example is the fairy godmother , who appears , through popular expectation , in most pantomimes and a great many fairy stories . |
| 27 | In these remote mountainous areas a great many farmers , either as individuals or through co-operatives , have developed markets and outlets for their produce through the tourist industry . |
| 28 | Conversely , the Single European Market could benefit operators in the South East but a great many operators are uncertain ( 31 per cent ) or indifferent ( 36 per cent ) to the Single Market , believing that it will have no effect . |
| 29 | She had been left outside a great many pubs on warm summer evenings while models and some younger aspiring painters had occasionally checked to see if she was still there . |
| 30 | We deal with allocation erm , spatial allocation of resources , which geographers are interested in , and of course we have erm particularly in the nineteen sixties and seventies , when planners were being very actively recruited , we erm did see a great many geographers go into planning , both at national level and , indeed , also in local offices , so you 'll find many geographers there . |