Example sentences of "is [verb] [prep] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inability to compete on salary terms , which creates staff shortages for certain organisations , is compounded in many cases by an inability to offer sufficiently satisfying work to attract labour with the skills that are desired . |
| 2 | Gainsharing is favoured in many US hospitals , where surveys highlighted in the RNC report show that managers and nurses feel PRP is a potential demotivator . |
| 3 | Between Talabheim and Altdorf the river is joined by many streams which flow south from the Middle Mountains , laden with dark soils washed from the mountain slopes . |
| 4 | The area surrounding Weavers is criss-crossed with many bridlepaths and footpaths , including the Old Pilgrims Way , a path running from Winchester to Canterbury , which starts just 200 yards from the house and runs along the top of the Downs . |
| 5 | The rest of the poem is concerned with the social causes of human misery : the Female Vagrant tells us that This is dismissed by many critics as ‘ tainted with Godwinism ’ , but I can not myself see that lines like these are ever likely to become out of date . |
| 6 | This experience is referred to many times in the Cantos : what its author most values in theory , the weighing of syllables in the line and the leading on of the reader 's breath from one syllable to the next . |
| 7 | A beautiful lake is inhabited by many species of waterfowl and the delightful formal gardens include herb and sculpture gardens . |
| 8 | Therefore , viewing university students as an elite is justified in many ways when considering the low proportion who can enter this group and the usually predictable social backgrounds of the successful candidates . |
| 9 | And , if one accepts the concept that the spirit is journeying through many lifetimes in order to achieve that degree of evolution which makes it unnecessary to spend further time on this earth , then surely it must be essential to experience life both as a man and as a woman . |
| 10 | What is surprising is how very generously this co-operation is given in many cases . |
| 11 | The relationship between COURSE and LECTURER is many-to-many , that is , one LECTURER lectures on many COURSES and a COURSE is given by many LECTURERS . |
| 12 | It is simplified in many ways : it ignores patterns of length and diphthongization and excludes tokens of post-velar environments in which front-raising occurs ( chiefly among older speakers ) . |
| 13 | This so-called ‘ hidden curriculum ’ is claimed by many feminists to be at least as important in child development as the formal curriculum ( see , for example , Byrne , 1978 ) , and has been subject to intensive study ( e.g. Spender and Sarah , 1980 ) . |
| 14 | A detailed discussion of such clauses is beyond the scope of this chapter , but it should be said that the case law shows that use of such clauses to provide security in the event of failure to pay the purchase price is surrounded with many pitfalls . |
| 15 | Mr , you you 've er commented upon Mr 's objection that he made himself , but of course there are he is appearing for many others , |
| 16 | Thus , although capitalism is blamed by many workers for the treatment older people receive today , it is clear that ageism has a history which long predates this form of social organisation . |
| 17 | Power transformations are a very important part of the researcher 's armoury ; while the exponents of exploratory data analysis stress them ( Tukey 1977 ; Mosteller and Tukey 1977 ) , their use is applauded by many statisticians ( e.g. Kruskal 1978 ) . |
| 18 | In the USA sex education is forbidden in many schools , despite the permissive attitudes of the society outside . |
| 19 | I 've been quite frightened by what is happening in many areas of conservation and environment problems , and I decided that the best , one of the best , courses that I could take was to incorporate conservation in my work . |
| 20 | Standards of typography will rarely be a decisive factor in selection , but there is no doubt that small print is disliked by many readers — including those with good eyesight — and should be avoided on the relatively rare occasions that alternatives are available ( for instance , with the different editions of popular classics , or with light fiction , where the choice is very wide and content is less variable ) . |
| 21 | The enthusiasm with which the video nasties explanation as a crucial influence is embraced by many newspapers provokes three thoughts . |
| 22 | ‘ One universal name is imposed on many things , for their similitude in some quality . ’ |
| 23 | Patriarchal religion is built on many millennia of repressed fear of the power of female bodily processes . |
| 24 | Secondly , as a matter of fact , it is accepted in many areas of the higher education curriculum that the basic conceptual understanding can not be fully accomplished at the undergraduate stage , in which case the ‘ frontiers of knowledge ’ can be shown only to students who follow on to a postgraduate programme . |
| 25 | In this section we present ( essentially ) two number-theoretic results of which much use is made in many areas of mathematics . |
| 26 | This record is made by many friends in recognition of his sacrifice . |
| 27 | Then with typical enthusiasm it reported , ‘ On fine evenings the course is visited by many ladies and gentlemen and the course was in measure responsible for the letting of the Royal Hotel ’ . |
| 28 | Learning by remembering is applied in many situations and under different names . |
| 29 | For the materialist version of the CTP is beset with many difficulties that ultimately make its claim to have explanatory force somewhat vacuous . |
| 30 | But unfortunately it is beset with many problems . |