Example sentences of "[prep] the [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 | All the same , some power remained and the majority of academics were Jesuits or Dominicans or members of the other many orders . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The anthropologists have to point again and again to the great many societies in which spouses are arranged and not freely chosen . |
| 7 | THANK you to the great many readers who have written to me in the past couple of weeks about the Royals . |