Example sentences of "on many " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amnesty International has asked the Government on many occasions to lift those measures which place obstacles in the path of asylum seekers attempting to gain access to the refugee-determination process . |
| 2 | A successful description of a self-portrait may not be difficult , but an illuminating interpretation may call on many references , especially other artists ' pictures of themselves . |
| 3 | While the latter 's name has been associated on many occasions with Dublin , to date it has not operated here . |
| 4 | Cloud flying , particularly in shower clouds , can be quite a dangerous pastime and on many days it would be totally irresponsible to risk losing a club glider by attempting to climb a large cloud . |
| 5 | My own ‘ anthropological history ’ in this liminoid phase became extended over eight years , until 1974 , and not only gave me time to reflect on many of the controls we were required to impose , but also to consider the nature of the social harm these unworldly folk devils and ‘ drug fiends ’ were actually causing ; for established society has never really known how to handle the unworldly easily . |
| 6 | Jamie called her Ug the Cavewoman , Francis had tried talking with her on many occasions : |
| 7 | On many occasions I seen students surprised by the unpredictability of these bits , and are unwilling to use them again . |
| 8 | On many other routes , trolleys have provided an ideal lowcost solution and today 's timetable shows a good variety of trains , including many of Provincial 's Sprinter expresses . |
| 9 | For example : in Choros he focuses attention on many ancient Greek dance rituals and accents the playful use of movement whilst at the same time showing that such warlike , athletic courtship and other activities are a wonderful game to be played by the performers . |
| 10 | discounts on many products , including CAMRA 's best-selling , annual Good Beer Guide |
| 11 | And turning away from calls to battle and the accompanying rise in blood pressure , it seems reasonable for teachers of literature to go on teaching what they have been trained to teach , and what they like , understand , and are familiar with , without also having to take on many varieties of history — intellectual , cultural , political , social , economic , artistic , and musical — not to mention sociology , the study of popular culture , including the merest graffito , and , inevitably , literary theory . |
| 12 | But other readers will , I imagine , accept the general drift of what I have said , whilst disagreeing on many points of detail . |
| 13 | On many a winter morning I jumped out of bed and put a letter of his in the fire , feeling it would be wrong to allow it to survive ; and when some years ago I was asked by a distinguished man of letters if I could help him to write an account of Maurice |
| 14 | The Angolan government , increasingly looking to free market policies to revive the economy , last month joined the International Monetary Fund in Washington , and says , as it has for the past three years , that a devaluation of the Kwanza and the lifting of controls on many goods is imminent . |
| 15 | Town halls will be unable to make payments on many of their contracts , and the hospital service is also threatened . |
| 16 | ‘ The teachers ’ strike had a big effect on many of the schools playing union in this part of the country — and rugby league simply stepped in . |
| 17 | They think she 's extremist on many issues — poll tax , the health service . |
| 18 | I would just rather march at the head of the unit as I have done on many other occasions . ’ |
| 19 | I used them on many rainy days , and never once suffered from wet feet . |
| 20 | The Thatcher government 's strong stance on many issues won much popular support amongst a people weary of attempts to defy the law by left-wing local authorities , strike pickets , or disaffected journalists . |
| 21 | These conditions touch on many aspects of our national life : health threatened by overcrowded and insanitary homes ; education retarded when children have no room in which to do homework , or arrive tired at school after sleeping in a room with several others ; marriages broken up through the strain of sharing a home or making do in cramped and uncomfortable quarters ; Borstal institutions , remand homes and approved schools filled by the products of an unhappy home life . |
| 22 | Major companies call on many of the world 's leading photographers and designers . |
| 23 | I have been approached on many levels , from stripograms in the office to packages arriving at reception with worms and a message inside threatening even worse if I did n't see the band ( I did n't ) . |
| 24 | The landscape of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ is very much a country of the mind , drawing on many of the ideas found in the pages of the anthropologists whom he catalogued as folklore experts in 1924 . |
| 25 | The increase in oil prices combined with the 1979 June budget 's increase from 8 to 15 per cent in VAT on many goods and high wage rises helped to push inflation up to 21 per cent in May 1980 . |
| 26 | But two budgets — 1979 , which included a doubling of the standard rate of VAT on many goods and services and 1981 , which was severely deflationary at a time when over two million were out of work — shocked a number of Cabinet ministers . |
| 27 | Traditionalists , however , do not regard society as merely a gigantic market place and favour an authoritarian stand on many social issues , for example , on drugs , abortion , Sunday trading , and censorship . |
| 28 | By 1989 Labour had shifted its policies on many of these issues . |
| 29 | The 1983 and 1987 Gallup election surveys showed that voters across all parties agreed on many goals of government . |
| 30 | Public opinion , though skewed to the right on many issues , has not moved further right between 1979 and 1989 , and may actually have moved in a contrary direction . |