Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [prep] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This applied to many houses in the street , presumably brought about by the making up of the road with gravel over a long period . |
| 2 | This seemed to many privatization run mad . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This proved to many people 's satisfaction that Edison 's ‘ re-creation ’ was indistinguishable from the original . |
| 6 | This accounted for many derivations that are not simply inflections ( e.g. happy , happiness , happily ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For adult offenders these had for many years been confined to absolute or conditional discharges , fines and probation orders . |
| 9 | Expeditions to the bottom of the peat-filled loch in 1976 resulted in many photographs of what appeared to be a herd of giant sea-creatures with paddle-like fins , long necks and calf-like heads . |
| 10 | The rise in the illegitimacy rate during World War II resulted from many marriages not taking place ( owing to conscription and general wartime dislocation ) , rather than from a rise in premarital conceptions . |
| 11 | She also read the message in italics printed beneath the cartoon , to the effect that the cartoonist responsible had for many years been officially connected with a provincial newspaper and was now , in the sunset of his life , himself the recipient of twice-weekly Meals on Wheels . |
| 12 | A Japanese aristocrat , which I first came across many years ago in a Berkshire woodland garden , is Kirengeshoma palmata , with large , lobed , vine-like leaves on dark 3ft stems . |
| 13 | The intense conflict in the years from 1980 to 1982 led to many resignations among teachers , while many others asked for transfers . |