Example sentences of "[adj] for many [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a beautiful , small twelfth-century room , used as a stable for many years after the depredations of the Revolution but carefully restored in the 1850s . |
| 2 | AFTER being ill-served for many years by the investment industry , the small investor at last has a choice of funds which follow share indices . |
| 3 | Gastric emptying tests with radiolabelled meals and gamma camera imaging have proved popular for many years in clinical research and physiological studies . |
| 4 | Sue Baring , finding it difficult to conceal her disappointment , thanked a similar list of people before ending : ‘ I do think the result is uncomfortable for many sections of this society and I hope I will be free to fight for all those who may well lose out as a result of this election . ’ |
| 5 | The war memorial is near what was once a busy joiner 's workshop , manned for many generations by members of the Boyes family . |
| 6 | Oesophageal transection and devascularisation are satisfactory for many patients with oesophageal varices secondary to cirrhosis and should nearly always control bleeding . |
| 7 | When the Government was newly formed it was perhaps natural for many matters to be discussed in Ministerial Committees which , with growing experience , should now be settled by the individual ministers concerned . |
| 8 | Punch Magazine : April 8 , aged 150 : The satirical publication had been ill for many years with circulation falling to 33,000 . |
| 9 | So I doubt if our hero would have been good for many heroics after swigging that . |
| 10 | He had championed the cause of the poor for many years in a series of investigative articles , and had highlighted the terrible conditions in which a large proportion of the ordinary Dublin people lived . |
| 11 | We are concerned for many reasons about the health of staff , but particularly when we know that illness and disease can be greatly lessened when smoking is reduced or stopped altogether . |
| 12 | The causative organism , like that responsible for many cases of non-specific infection , is a member of the chlamydia group . |
| 13 | Unless a dancer was resident for many weeks at a theatre , it was difficult to get to know a prospective husband . |
| 14 | Access speeds may still be slow for many purposes in a database environment . |
| 15 | HOME ownership increased by a fifth and average prices trebled between 1979 and now but the story has turned sour for many homebuyers in recent years as mortgage arrears and repossessions soared . |
| 16 | Although this has been particularly influential for many forms of Western Marxism , it also represents a deviation from Marx 's original claim that history is the effect of material conditions rather than of human consciousness . |
| 17 | Roots burrow extensively , their armour-plated tips following worm tunnels and structural cracks or simply boring for many yards through the soil in search of water and food , which they absorb through their fine lateral roots . |
| 18 | This will be a standard community tank suitable for many types of easily-bought tropical fish . |
| 19 | With tinted lenses now suitable for many types of vision defect you can change the colour of your eyes to match your outfit . ’ |
| 20 | Fish caught in gill-nets are generally regarded as being of poorer quality , because they are often dead for many hours before coming aboard the fishing vessel . |
| 21 | Avoidance involves allowing cell sap to concentrate , so reducing its freezing point ; in this way frost-hardened plants may remain ice-free and physiologically active for many days at temperatures well below 0°C . |
| 22 | The latter probably included correspondence with Colonel Filipović in Belgrade , who has been active for many years in agitating for firmer action |
| 23 | Alternatively , a British Visitors passport obtainable from most Post Offices is valid for many countries in this brochure . |