Example sentences of "the many " in BNC.
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| 1 | A vital source of first hand information is generated by the many missions and research trips Amnesty sends to countries each year for on-the-spot investigations and to observe trials , meet prisoners and talk to government officials . |
| 2 | The old woman 's son was one of the many prisoners who have subsequently died in the prison . |
| 3 | This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life . |
| 4 | This mediation of ethics makes indirect one 's access to the problem of the relationship between the religious faith of some and the morality of the many , particularly on the issue of the freedom of the individual versus the intervention of the state . |
| 5 | The loss or senseless alteration of the many ‘ ordinary ’ pubs that serve these functions can deal a serious blow to the quality of life of their users and the well-being of the wider community . |
| 6 | Garlic , cloves , chives , tarragon , peppers and even nettles are among the many ingredients often combined with mustard |
| 7 | The killing in Hrothgar 's meadhall described in the ensuing passage was clearly the origin of the many Country House murders which were to feature in Hercule Poirot 's investigations . |
| 8 | The film and television industries are important ingredients of the city 's culture and the Festival reflects this life-style in its informal atmosphere , giving endless pleasure to the many cinema goers from the city and to the numerous professionals who visit the city for the Festival . |
| 9 | The caterpillars so far unidentified , which feed on its leaves provide an abundant source of protein for the many young birds . |
| 10 | September is one of the best times for sowing wildflower seeds , particularly the many mixtures now available . |
| 11 | Flaps are described in detail for the many pilots who do not fully understand how to make the best use of them , and who may be nervous about their first flights in a flapped machine . |
| 12 | This booklet covers some of the many services available and more importantly how to make use of them . |
| 13 | Anthropological analysis of these beliefs , I believe , should add a crucial semantic dimension to compliment the many non-qualitative enquiries into policing now in progress . |
| 14 | Its frenzied rejection was very different to that of the many projects listed in the Police Foundation or Home Office Registers of Research mentioned above , most of which are simply ignored and never ever receive any review . |
| 15 | I had mentioned the unquantifiable public relationships which could be generated during a secondment and argued for the intangible value of the many hundreds of contacts I had made which could not easily be costed in purely fiscal terms . |
| 16 | Without another word the three of them dressed and then , by the small yellow light of the candles , they opened the strong-box and fed the many leaves of paper one by one into the embers . |
| 17 | It would indeed hound him for ever , and inspire the many references in dialogue to his father which we shall encounter , and his ambiguous sense of direction and self-fulfilment . |
| 18 | But while he argues for general connections between the rites , incidentally ignoring the many repudiations of Gnosticism that were made of it by early Christian leaders , his viewpoint is much more balanced than Scobie 's . ) |
| 19 | It is unfortunate that the influential Dudek could only illustrate Leonard 's work by quoting from the admittedly despondent poem ‘ Rededication ’ , without a reference to the many other elements of positive delight that the book — and Leonard 's work elsewhere at that time — demonstrates . |
| 20 | Among the exquisitely pungent thoughts of self , of responsibility and tradition , stands the one who was powerfully driven by his sensual nature , by his personal loneliness , by the intense need to be one not only with the One , but also with the many in human completion . |
| 21 | It was certainly not one of the many studied effects which Paul had variously condemned as ‘ ludicrous ’ , ‘ over the top ’ , ‘ outrageous ’ , ‘ dingy ’ , or — most damaging of all — ‘ silly ’ . |
| 22 | Specifiedly general objects , such as forms and universals , by their very nature stand for the many things which are instances of them : a single particular may be in a variety of relations — most obviously causal , spatial or temporal - to others , but the nature of a ‘ standing for ’ relation is obscure . |
| 23 | ( The many demonstrations , in neuropsychological experiments of the kind discussed in Chapter 4 , of the loss of mental processes caused by the loss of neural processes are more powerful here . ) |
| 24 | Most scientists implicitly , and the many philosophers explicitly , prefer identity theories . |
| 25 | There is no neurophysiological model of the kind of convergence that would seem to be necessary for the many different sensations of the moment to be brought into synthetic unity , without loss of their individual distinctiveness and specificity , into the instantaneous sense of ‘ being here ’ ; or of the manner in which experience of many different moments can be synthesized into a sense of continuing self without those moments losing their separateness in memory . |
| 26 | Perhaps I had spoken to two of the many tourists that must be coming over to pay their respects to this capital of capitals . |
| 27 | Gothic twist : just one of the many exhibits at the annual Buckinghamshire College Design Degree Show , which featured craft and manufactured furniture . |
| 28 | In America the Rainforest Alliance and Green Cross are attempting to monitor sustainable sources but the two organisations have complimentary skills , and will benefit from a coordinating body which will hopefully be able to make more efficient use of the many diverse groups working on rainforest practices . |
| 29 | In the next article , I will describe the details of the job , and in another the solutions I found to the many problems encountered on the way . |
| 30 | Where these opportunities are not as good as possible , we have tried to show some of the many ways in which older people can be helped . |