Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [prep] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the RNLI has a unique appeal , the methods of attracting support are in many ways no different to those used by all the other major charities in the country . |
| 2 | For them , getting a winter coat was a big thing , it was to many working-class women what getting a car is to many men . |
| 3 | The agricultural industry is in many ways exceptional : not least because of its relative freedom from formal controls . |
| 4 | Founded in 1925 , the Review is in many respects a source as appropriate to this phase as the English Association and the Newbolt Committee were for the earlier period . |
| 5 | This point needs to be stressed , because recruitment administration is in many respects so mundane that outsiders to the personnel department have difficulty understanding why it should cause a problem . |
| 6 | However , that imposition simultaneously reveals how , without linguistic knowledge to explain the distinction , the enforced recognition is for many teachers a traumatic experience . |
| 7 | Llanthony Warehouse was for many years a showroom and store for Western Trading Co . |
| 8 | Criticism which could be levelled at this study was in many ways similar to that of youth cultures . |
| 9 | But difficult as the schism was for many workers and indeed activists to understand or justify , its far-reaching ramifications had already begun to emerge . |
| 10 | Shamim 's village is like many others from which Pakistani immigrants have come to Britain . |
| 11 | Conversely , poetry is in many ways closer to music than to the more extended and discursive literary forms . |
| 12 | On the technical side , remedial work is in many cases already on the way . |
| 13 | However , the Universe is in many ways a very orderly place : if nine planets orbit a star in roughly the same plane , the tenth can be expected to do likewise . |
| 14 | The fact that divorce is in many cases equally desired by both parties makes it probable that there may in fact be some collusion between them . |
| 15 | ‘ The picture that emerges from our review of radioactive waste management is in many ways a disquieting one , ’ the Commission noted with cautious understatement , ‘ indicating insufficient appreciation of long-term requirements either by government departments or other organizations concerned . ’ |
| 16 | Or at least they start , both books really start with the same issue , and the issue in question is in many ways , well , you could argue that it was in many ways fundamental to the social sciences . |
| 17 | The judicial institutions of Europe were governed by a series of contradictions , Jurisdiction and administration were regarded as essentially one process , and the court in which they were carried out was the central institution of any monarchy or principality : the maintenance of justice and law was in many people 's eyes the king 's supreme function . |
| 18 | Agnes and Tommy Docherty 's marriage was in many respects typical of their generation and typical of their catholic upbringing in the west of Scotland . |
| 19 | This part of the dream was like many others I 'd had about him . |
| 20 | Moreover , a change from philosophy was in many ways to be desired , as it so often is . |
| 21 | Information sharing , access , and security are in many ways the same issue viewed from different angles , with the emphasis varying according to how open an organisation is . |
| 22 | While it is therefore acceptable to talk of Japan as strongly influenced by Confucianism , the emphases of th Japanese brand of Confucianism are in many respects far removed from the Chinese original . |
| 23 | Women of the first group are in many ways utterly dissimilar from each other , differing in language , religion and customs ( see tables 1 and 2 ) , but their roles in the peasant societies they have come from have a lot in common . |
| 24 | One of the employers interviewed by Margaret Irwin for the Royal Commission on Labour in the early 1890s reported that " the girls in our composing room are in many cases daughters of compositors and machinemen and men employed in other departments of the establishment … they introduce their relations in the form of sisters " . |
| 25 | Published histories of every town or village or suburb are in many cases non-existent , so frequently primary pupils are by necessity plunged into the world of do-it-yourself local history . |
| 26 | The court , the enquiry and the investigation are in many ways similar , and all will include elements of reconstruction . |
| 27 | As for the Liberal Democrats , responding with ‘ gambling is in many cases an addiction ’ is absolutely laughable . |
| 28 | This scenario is in many ways similar to Charles Handy 's Work Society , but , whereas Handy based his vision on his views about what values ought to prevail in post-industrial society , Gershuny 's picture is built up from an analysis of economic trends . |
| 29 | This process is in many ways analogous to deductive reasoning . |
| 30 | This group is in many ways similar to the elderly , except that they are less likely to be able to contribute to care from their own resources and are therefore more likely to receive a free service wherever they are placed . |