Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The freedom to experiment , to organise classrooms in a way which supported and encouraged children 's learning , and which incidentally ( though not haphazardly ) covered the key areas of the curriculum led to many innovations . |
| 2 | Inside the plant , levels of radiation in the abandoned reactor building rose to many times the lethal level . |
| 3 | The exclusion of women from the paid labour force became in many areas an important part of the development of both working-class ‘ respectability ’ and of notions of working-class manhood . |
| 4 | Chlorine was used at the same time , and one may suppose that confusion arose in many minds about their separate effects . |
| 5 | A fair point , maybe , but one that smacks of the kind of social-comment spuriousness spouted by many fashion editors who ought to know better . |
| 6 | The heads of various departments , foremen and other key workers were recruited from just across the county boundary in Sheffield and south Yorkshire ; the rest of the labour force came from many parts of Britain and Ireland . |
| 7 | Despite assurances from US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney that only the Okinawa and German weapons would be destroyed at Johnston , the fear persisted in many Pacific countries that the USA would abandon plans to build incinerators on the American mainland and would use the Johnston facility much more widely than had been hitherto suggested . |
| 8 | The National Children 's Bureau 's parent education and support project identified a number of trends affecting parents in the 1980s ; for example , the pressure on parents as a result of our increasing knowledge of child development and society 's high expectations of the parental role ; the tendency for professionals to undermine parents ' self-confidence with their expertise ; the isolation felt by many parents with young children ; the need for information and knowledge , for social and practice skills , and for self-awareness and understanding of how their values affect the way in which they bring up their children ( Pugh and De'Ath , 1984 ) . |
| 9 | Debate as to the relative merits of foot and horse continued for many centuries , and still exists in an attenuated form in the modern technological army . |
| 10 | Ultranationalist thinking on the rural sector seemed in many ways only a more radical version of official views . |
| 11 | As a doctor , she was more than well aware that children needed to be protected , and that abuse existed in many forms . |
| 12 | They had had high priority since the fuel crisis of February 1947 , but boilers and site work had in many cases been delayed ( mainly because of steel shortages ) so that 300–400MW of plant completed by the turbo-alternator manufacturers had had to be put in store for a year or more . |
| 13 | It requires even more time and a visit to a hypnotherapist until she can reclaim the knowledge that the abuse lasted for many years . |
| 14 | Nash , a scrupulous and sensitive antiquarian , tells us what happened next : ‘ The body , I believe , is perfect , as it has never been opened : we thought it indelicate and indecent to uncover it ; but observing the left hand to lie at a small distance from the body , we took off the cerecloth , and found the hand and nails perfect , but of a brownish colour : the cerecloth consisted of many folds of coarse linen , dipped in wax , tar , and perhaps some gums : over this was wrapt a sheet of lead fitted exactly close to the body . ’ |
| 15 | Given that co-operation and consultation in more normal times was virtually unknown on this lateral basis , inexperience led to many defects . |
| 16 | It was almost a model village , with its Quality Street , where a future head of the Secret Service lived for many years . |
| 17 | For all that there 's no denying the distaste felt by many London lawyers for tactics . |
| 18 | Marianella was detained and tortured by the security forces on two occasions in 1978 and her name appeared on many death squad lists . |
| 19 | The head did in many cases establish , however , that many of the criticisms were not untypical of other schools in the borough — or indeed of comprehensive schools in general . |
| 20 | That night the Prime Minister and the King spoke for many hours . |
| 21 | Can anyone wonder that disbelief and despondency settled upon many schools in time to give way to anger and protest at the possibility of carrying out tasks that has been imposed on them under impossible conditions . |
| 22 | Units of the centrally planned national economy existed in many forms as they were set up by ministries , ‘ centres of production ’ , and directorates of production and were managed either on the basis of the responsibility of a single individual , namely a state-appointed director , or ( particularly from and after the 1956 Revolution ) by workers ' councils or a council of deputies elected by the whole work-force of the enterprise . |
| 23 | Moreover I can reveal that the findings of the Committee were certainly not those indicated in this letter ; we found that Derry Corporation had for many years been carrying out a policy of anti-Rome Catholic discrimination in employment and rigid segregation in housing . |
| 24 | As was intimated in the introduction , although there is little evidence to suggest that sexual behaviour changed greatly in the period , the feeling remained for many people at the time that this was nevertheless what was happening . |
| 25 | E-shaped , as was the fashion , it centred round its Great Hall , a reminder still of the public life lived by many Tudor leaders . |
| 26 | However , Foreign Minister Gyula Horn on March 12 expressed the concern felt in many quarters internationally that the secession of Soviet republics might jeopardize Soviet reforms , and that the potential rapid disintegration of the Soviet Union posed a threat to world peace and stability . |
| 27 | Ann Winterton ( C , Congleton ) urged him to ‘ acknowledge the growing concern felt by many MPs on the erosion of our manufacturing base ’ . |
| 28 | As a result , chena cultivation disappeared in many districts . |
| 29 | Late in life he married a member of the Wilkinson family ( whose firm had for many years been solicitors to the College ) . |
| 30 | Again , the welfare state had in many respects advanced equality of opportunity , but not equality of outcome . |