Example sentences of "[adj] for many other [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It was ( and is ) impossible for many other travellers to stay at home too .
2 But exercise is an important part of keeping fit for many other reasons .
3 But Dent is famous for many other things : its " Terrible Knitters " ; Dent marble ; Adam Sedgwick ; and , of course , its vampire .
4 They are useful for many other jobs around the home and garden .
5 Sykes was also responsible for many other signalling and safety devices , including depression or fouling bars interlocked with signals , thus providing valuable protection against these inadvertently being set to allow the passage of a train if other trains were obstructing its path .
6 Just as the first Venetians found that the water-logged islands of their lagoon , far from merely affording them protection from their enemies on land , also provided them with ideal access to the sea and with it immense possibilities of wealth and naval power , so it emerged in the course of human social evolution that the psychological mechanisms which had been necessary in socializing man also proved serviceable for many other enterprises and in time produced the great flowering of human culture which we see around us today .
7 The same is true for many other periods ; for instance , coins provide a date for the deposit of the great Viking hoard from Cuerdale in Lancashire of c.AD905 , and this in turn provides a date for the associated objects and hence a pivotal fixed chronological point for our understanding of Anglo-Saxon metalwork .
8 However , on behalf of many of my constituents — I am sure that this is true for many other people around the country — I should like to stress that , although none of us thought in 1979 that we would be discussing this situation today , as a result of it many of our constituents have received a quality of life far superior to that which they might otherwise have had .
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