Example sentences of "behind many " in BNC.
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| 1 | A far cry from the £2 tray meal handed out on the first of the Scenic Land Cruise trains eight years earlier , in a decade of special-train running where sophistication got its chance — and left behind many ordinary folk for whom the railway ‘ excursion ’ is now but a fading memory . |
| 2 | Well before Cordoba made his debut over today 's course two months ago , his name was being whispered behind many a well-respected hand as the one to be on for next year 's 2000 Guineas . |
| 3 | There were two motivating factors behind many of these actions of appeasement . |
| 4 | Moving may mean leaving behind many memories of your pet that can be difficult to abandon . |
| 5 | To protect power station workers from this invisible threat the reactor core has to be encased behind many metres of thick concrete . |
| 6 | The Christian psychologist Paul C. Vitz has said , ‘ From Freud 's example , one has reason to suspect that behind many an atheist , agnostic or sceptic of today lies shame , disappointment or rage directed at the father . |
| 7 | This facility ‘ for burying an emotion in my heart or brain for forty years , and exhuming it at the end of that time as fresh as when interred ’ , as he described it , lies behind many of his most successful lyrics . |
| 8 | This is very demoralising since you have to pass behind many boards on startboard before getting clear . |
| 9 | This is the secret behind many of the stories about animals sensing the presence of man and other creatures , or of rushing to the help of an injured person discovered by means outside the scope of their more obvious perceptive processes . |
| 10 | BEHIND many a football club dressing room door , you 'll find a copy of Rudyard Kipling 's ‘ If ’ pinned up , the poem that talks of ‘ meeting with triumph and disaster and treating those two imposters just the same ’ . |
| 11 | Having been deeply involved in our home church , we left behind many Christian friends and family members who were praying for us . |
| 12 | ACTOR Sterling Holloway , the voice behind many Disney favourites like Winnie the Pooh and the snake in The Jungle Book , has died aged 87 . |
| 13 | The point behind many of these affirmations is to keep reminding oneself of the obvious fact that in a situation where it is clearly impossible to be perfect , to be less than perfect is the best one can be . |
| 14 | They find that unhappy childhoods are behind many difficulties in later life . |
| 15 | It is generally agreed by historians that the treaty concluded between Henry III and Louis IX at Paris in 1259 lay behind many of the problems from which subsequent Anglo-French tensions stemmed . |
| 16 | Indeed , Dr. Luther with his masterful knowledge of the scriptures , uncovers the hidden truths behind many of the distortions and falsehoods pertaining to the Jews and their claims of a ‘ special relationship ’ with God . |
| 17 | I 'm sure that a collective sense of guilt lay behind many of our trips to Siena , Assisi and Orvieto . |
| 18 | Bullying , boredom , fear , hopelessness about the future and lengthy hours of isolation lie behind many prison suicides , factors which are all amenable to management changes in the prison service . |
| 19 | Secondly , unlike general insurance , the motivation behind many life-related policies is essentially a desire to save for the future , either for one 's own benefit or for the benefit of dependants . |
| 20 | Presumably , behind many of the net curtains in Wimbledon Park Road things as strange , or even stranger , were always going on . |
| 21 | Ecologists have questioned their value , pointing out that , while they kill off coliform bacteria ( a common cause of diarrhoea ) , they are ineffective against salmonella and other viruses , which are believed to be behind many of the mild stomach upsets and other illnesses suffered by bathers . |
| 22 | But the Abingdon-based company behind many of Oxford 's barfly promotions insists it is safe . |
| 23 | ‘ It has been a long wait in a queue behind many other people with the same idea who wanted new homes in their neighbourhoods , but it has definitely been worth it . |
| 24 | The marketing campaign unveiled yesterday is aimed at a raising the profile of the event among the general public in the United States , where football lags far behind many other sports in popularity . |
| 25 | Over the past three years , raids have been carried out as police target crack dealers who 've been behind many shootings and violent assaults . |
| 26 | Risk is the hidden reason behind many failures to sell . |
| 27 | But I think , looking back in history , there has always been a erm strong erm religious motivation behind many of the past great scientists , like Newton , erm Boyle , Maxwell , Calvin — these are all people who had a very strong religious motivation erm behind their investigations , and if you look back in history still further , there is a strong case to be made that the reason why science was so dramatically successful in the west was because there was a strong belief in monotheistic religion , that people believe that the world had been created in an ordered way by a deity and so there really were laws of nature to be discovered , whereas if you study what happened in the Far East , for example , in China , the Chinese , you remember , were well ahead of the west in science at about the tenth century . |