Example sentences of "like many " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morgan Grenfell , like many Catering & Allied clients , wants its staff to pay only the cost of food , plus VAT . |
| 2 | Apples suffer from pests and diseases like other plants , but like many growers , Joan Greenway is no great fan of chemical sprays . |
| 3 | Like many graduates stimulated by their experiences , he discovered that although he had been of sufficient calibre to acquire the offer of the scholarship in the first place , he now faced the inevitable service obsession with a rejection of academic prowess in preference for ‘ practical skills in the real world ’ ( ibid. 157 ) : |
| 4 | In effect this was a time when new worlds and new social structures were being forged ; and in many ways we were closer to the world of the underground than that of the moral majority , for we were walking the same ground and like many in the alternative society were ( somewhat unsystematically ) following an essential and perennial theme of history — that of man 's journey as ‘ hero ’ . |
| 5 | He , like many others , was to learn the truth of the Talmud that , ‘ our passions are like travellers : at first they make a brief stay ; then they are like guests , who visit often ; and then they turn into tyrants , who hold us in their power . ’ |
| 6 | But resemblance can not explain how a thinker could experience one object as standing for another ; for how could the fact that a particular datum is similar to other things mean anything to a thinker unless he experienced it as being like many others — that is , unless he grasped it , not just as a particular but as an instance of a kind ? |
| 7 | Our last sight is of the shawl flitting about among the convicts in Siberia : not altogether happy , like many things in the Epilogue . |
| 8 | The Saussurean formulation , like many ‘ linguistic ’ views of language , eliminates the third term and with this gesture erases the world . |
| 9 | Discussing a book on Dostoevsky , he remarks that while the author has much of interest to say about The Idiot ‘ she does not quite persuade one that it comes off , indeed she does not really try , because like many scholars today she is more concerned with showing how the thing works than with judging if it works well . ’ |
| 10 | Like Einstein he distrusted the senses , like many philosophers he was incapable of sustaining close emotional relationships , and within his cloistered concentration miracles took place . |
| 11 | The cabinet session — billed , like many before , as ‘ crucial ’ — is to discuss the 10 points submitted by President Mubarak to clarify Israel 's initiative for elections in the occupied territories . |
| 12 | Like many young American composers he studied with Nadia Boulanger , but after 1925 set out to achieve the ‘ discipline of spontaneity ’ which he found in Stein 's writings . |
| 13 | One of the difficulties with interpreting Small World visually had been that , like many of his texts , it features extended literary pastiche . |
| 14 | Like many in the sport , the men who make the odds view the bold Brittain as racing 's version of Don Quixote . |
| 15 | By the encore the chubby middle-aged chap in front of me , like many in the hall , had lost all touch with decorum , and , during ‘ Summertime Blues ’ was standing on his seat , windmilling his arms over the strings of his air guitar . |
| 16 | If his medicine is not visibly working soon , he will , like many of the unfortunate people who can not afford their mortgage payment , have to be evicted from his comfortable home . ’ |
| 17 | Like many others in education , he would like to see a structure that meets the needs of all 16-to 19-year-olds by bringing together the academic A-level syllabuses , with all the various vocational courses , into a common system . |
| 18 | No one is willing to go on record with their feelings about Hamnett 's sometimes capricious behaviour , but one says privately : ‘ Like many creative people , she can be impossible to reason with , and the experience can be very painful . ’ |
| 19 | LIKE many other plants , asparagus seems to have got a second wind . |
| 20 | He like many others at that time felt that female transvestites were usurping male authority . |
| 21 | Like many local constituency Conservative party officers , who are drawn from the professions and small business , Mrs Thatcher is self-made and does not come from one of the traditional Tory interests — business , land , or a political family . |
| 22 | You 'd never think it but McQuaid , like many of the others , was more or less illiterate though he could add and subtract quick enough when it concerned his pocket . |
| 23 | In order to find examples of such an antithetical state of affairs they naturally turned to primitive society , as they assumed , like many before and after them , that these societies would offer illustrations of systems as totally different to those they knew as could be found anywhere . |
| 24 | Shamim 's village is like many others from which Pakistani immigrants have come to Britain . |
| 25 | But until the early fifties Manupur , like many other villages , was hardly affected by them . |
| 26 | So , like many other parents in her situation , she decided to fight her own case . |
| 27 | During the big freeze in December last year , Philippa Bastable , like many others , was stranded for 11 hours on the snowbound M6 . |
| 28 | To an observer Wexford might be thought only to be sitting , like many other inhabitants of Kingsmarkham , waiting for the storm to break . |
| 29 | Like many businesses in the G.D.R . |
| 30 | It was an interesting thought , to learn something in order to forget it ; as Fräulein Silber had said , like learning how to ride a bike , but like many other things , too , learning to play a musical instrument for instance . |