Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible to search through many relations , indeed the whole database , and the RANGE command can be used to restrict such access by only allowing users to refer to relations defined in a RANGE statement . |
| 2 | This applied to many houses in the street , presumably brought about by the making up of the road with gravel over a long period . |
| 3 | This seemed to many privatization run mad . |
| 4 | This depends on many factors but three in particular will influence feelings of wanting to get as much as possible out of the coaching opportunities which you provide : |
| 5 | This depends upon many factors , amongst them political and moral viewpoints . |
| 6 | This happened to many punters who shorted bank stocks last year just as the Federal Reserve eased interest rates and so triggered a sharp rally in bank share prices . |
| 7 | This applies to many decisions made in face-to-face relationships between professionals and their clients . |
| 8 | A year later further serious violence occurred during the weekend of 10–12 April 1981 in the Brixton area of south London ; this resulted in many injuries and widespread damage , and it attracted enormous media attention . |
| 9 | Over half live for many years in one hostel . |
| 10 | This proved to many people 's satisfaction that Edison 's ‘ re-creation ’ was indistinguishable from the original . |
| 11 | This accounted for many derivations that are not simply inflections ( e.g. happy , happiness , happily ) . |
| 12 | The justification for government action on efficiency grounds is that the costs of organizing private sector collective action are too great for this to occur in many cases . |
| 13 | It must be said that in Britain the new public library authorities created in 1972 have in many cases failed to capitalize on the opportunities for better stock provision which the larger units were supposedly able to achieve . |
| 14 | This comes in many packages so , as with all insurance , shop around . |
| 15 | This comes in many sizes and will hold your flowers at any angle you want . |
| 16 | By the time of the May Day ‘ celebrations ’ of 1990 there was much writing on many walls . |
| 17 | The rousing campaign for free trade in the 1840s impinged upon many abolitionists especially when proposals to equalise and reduce duties on sugar entering Britain , whether it originated in free-labour or slave-labour economies , were put forward . |
| 18 | Such virtues were also likely to appeal to many people of working age , especially if employment could be found in the growing service industries that had themselves decentralized . |
| 19 | There are others , but these appear on many travellers ' lists of favourite hotels . |
| 20 | The rise in sea level caused by global warming , for instance , is likely to lead to many deaths and to large changes in population , as a result of flooding . |
| 21 | These steps are likely to result in many employees ' worries being reduced and their attitudes towards relocation abroad becoming more favourable . |
| 22 | Despite the relative dereliction of some parts of Kent , the image of the garden of England remains a powerful influence and is likely to figure in many planning battles to come . |
| 23 | It is hard to think of many instances where Russia has been able to outsmart the West politically as the result of its intelligence operations . |
| 24 | These come in many styles but are basically of two types — those where the blades pass each other in a scissor action , and those where a single sharp blade presses down on a block or ‘ anvil ’ . |
| 25 | These come from many sources — school groups , horticulture clubs , students etc. and cover many topics . |
| 26 | But in another sense they raise a much more serious issue , one likely to arise in many jurisdictions whenever the defendant is not an individual but a corporation or some other form of association ; and it will be recognised that a very great proportion of international litigation does involve corporate defendants . |
| 27 | For adult offenders these had for many years been confined to absolute or conditional discharges , fines and probation orders . |
| 28 | In blissful oblivion , I 'm sure , JTR boarded the St Clair , ‘ a Glasgow trader , that calls at many ports with merchandise and does a lively trade in the transport of cattle . ’ |
| 29 | Professions are sometimes referred to as institutions , but the interesting point is that compared to many institutions they function less on the basis of formal , explicit regulations and codes than on informal , tacit norms and expectations . |
| 30 | The latter has for many years been the preference of the majority of established practitioners : according to a recent Law Society survey , almost 75 per cent of solicitors in practice are equity partners in a firm . |