Example sentences of "many [prep] [pron] [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set up in 1983 under the Finance Act , the BES has been a major facilitator of the channelling of funds to businesses ( Peat Marwick 1986 ) , many of which would apparently not have been able to raise capital without the help of the BES , although it was also reported that very little of the funds were provided for seedcorn businesses . |
| 2 | Such processed foods therefore have added to them artificial colours , flavours , flavour enhancers ( usually monosodium glutamate , MSG ) , texturizers , emulsifiers and preservatives — most of which are chemicals of no particular use to the body and many of which may actually be harmful . |
| 3 | The more powerful , well-established organizations were often able to put forward their own projects — many of which might simply have been cancelled because of capital cut-backs after the International Monetary Fund imposed constraints in 1976 . |
| 4 | The brothers converted part of the building to make a chapel , and set up an industry in old railway huts which produced exquisite ecclesiastical embroideries , many of which can still be seen in local churches . |
| 5 | Indeed , such an academic structure might provide a good opportunity for the exercise suggested by Graff , in which students ( many of whom would probably be women ) would consider a feminist anthology of women poets of the past , and discuss how far they are admissible into the existing poetic canon , and what theoretical criteria might govern such admission . |
| 6 | The Money Study Group ( MSG ) aims to bring together academic and professional economists , many of whom would otherwise be working in isolation . |
| 7 | An avid reader of classical literature and a disciple of Tolstoy and Zola , she was a shining-star amongst the thousands of immigrant women in the city of Glasgow , many of whom could neither read or write . |
| 8 | All of them add to the quality of life of the residents , and many of them may also help you enjoy your work too . |
| 9 | Not all the decisions in a given period can be carried out , since many of them may erroneously anticipate and depend upon other decisions which are in fact not being made . |
| 10 | We know that many of them may well have undergone long and arduous journeys , having travelled many miles across many frontiers and indeed possibly even across many continents just in order to be with us here tonight . |
| 11 | The industrialists of the water-power age , out in the open country , had put up houses for their workpeople — as at Cromford , Mellor and Styal , where many of them may still be seen — which were , in Professor Ashton 's words , ‘ not wanting in amenity and comfort ’ and even possessed a certain quality of design and proportion . |
| 12 | They have reported what they know about the number of minke whales in the sea , but have made no recommendation as to how many of them might safely be slaughtered — or ‘ harvested ’ in the unpleasant terminology of the whalers . |
| 13 | ‘ He was left in no doubt many of them would rather pack up and leave than sign these new leases and face the financial problems that appear to go with them , ’ he said . |
| 14 | We work with about 60 women a year , and I know many of them would genuinely say that at the start they were unemployable , that they could have gone back to drugs , ended up back in prison , but they did n't because Clean Break was there at the right time for them , to give them the opportunities they needed . |
| 15 | He had received several enthusiastic offers , though he wondered how many of them would really turn up in church . |
| 16 | If TDs generally can confidently expect to be re-nominated , many of them can also and no less confidently expect to be reelected . |
| 17 | And it seems to me that the use of these therefore at strategic level , many of them can only really be used if you 're prepared to make erm huge assumptions or huge leaps of the imagination . |
| 18 | In The Act of Reading , Wolfgang Iser argues that the literary work should be understood as a means of communication rather than as a representation of the world : ‘ It is a vital feature of literary texts that they do not lose their ability to communicate ; indeed , many of them can still speak even when their message has long since passed into history and their meaning no longer seems to be of importance ’ ( 1978:13 ) . |
| 19 | Many of them will presumably get the 100 per cent . |
| 20 | Many of them will also have the opportunity to attend the famous WHAM Bicycleship Training School . |
| 21 | The Department of Justice also published the names of 787 people granted indemnity for leaving the country without authority , although it was not clear how many of them could still be liable for prosecution for other offences . |
| 22 | You 've all heard it and many of you may still believe it . |
| 23 | Erm , many of you will also have seen Jean-Claude at previous meetings which he attended in the capacity as to Michel . |
| 24 | As you have read the above paragraphs , many of you will already be forming your own opinions — and this is just as it should be . |
| 25 | Many of you will already have access to a personal computer and most of you will have access to one in the future . |
| 26 | Thank you chair , erm many of you will perhaps know that the health authority did some pioneering work looking at different standard mortality ratios in different wards in Oxfordshire , and came up with some rather disturbing evidence that some of the wards had significantly higher incidents of death for people primarily in the forty-five to sixty-four age range than others , and Phil and myself wish to continue that work by targeting those wards with a range of measures designed to alleviate some of those health inequalities . |
| 27 | Erm , it 's my great contribution to science , unfortunately I shall be long dead , and many of yo some of you may , I do n't know how many of you will still be alive in two thousand and forty six , but if you are , you may see this day . |
| 28 | This , I suspect , is everyone 's favourite town in the top half of the Pyrenees and where many of us would always choose to stay . |
| 29 | Many of us might never be able to distinguish one variety of seed from another , but we have no trouble in telling an apple from a pear , or a cauliflower from a cabbage . |
| 30 | You have made the choice to travel alone to those far-flung parts of the world that many of us will never visit . |