Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] for many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the ‘ good pupil ’ list , teachers placed a high priority on ‘ being interested in the opposite sex ’ , and the pupils who appear to deviate from this ( ‘ cissy ’ boys or ‘ tomboy ’ girls ) call up spectres of homosexuality uncomfortable for many teachers . |
| 2 | Emaciated , naked , hair and nails uncut for many months , addicted to drugs and tranquillisers , reduced to almost infantile dependency , the man who had wished to control everything , died controlling nothing . |
| 3 | A while later , 20MB would suffice admirably , and probably leave a great chunk unused for many people . |
| 4 | But the observations threatened a notion fundamental for many Aristotelians , namely , that all celestial bodies are perfect spheres . |
| 5 | He was known to most of the crowd , having appeared at the famous Appleby Horse Fair as well as Lee Fair for many years . |
| 6 | Another vital component are macrophages , cells which attack bacteria , and other substances which fend off the bugs responsible for many stomach upsets , so babies have far greater protection against diarrhoea . |
| 7 | Joyce Standing , a community centre volunteer worker , said a bus ban would have made life impossible for many residents . |
| 8 | Then the children were evacuated from London in fear of air raids and that made life difficult for many Sunday schools , since the London children wanted to show the local children how tough they were . |
| 9 | ‘ Financial reporting is not an end in itself but is intended to provide information useful for many purposes . |
| 10 | MARY BAILEY has been a PFK regular for many years . |
| 11 | A 17,000km 2 logging concession in Guyana 's rainforest has been granted to a firm co-owned by a Malaysian company responsible for many human-rights and environmental abuses on its own home ground , in Sarawak . |
| 12 | This will be a standard community tank suitable for many types of easily-bought tropical fish . |