Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , in fact , impossible for management to have a direct , personal feeling and knowledge about so many business environments . |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose that is what I find so fascinating about so many American women . ’ |
| 3 | How could one live with someone , love someone to distraction and be blind or , at least , allow oneself to be kept in the dark about so many things ? |
| 4 | Perhaps the reason for the comic success of such characters is that they help us to recognise the prejudice which exists in all of us at so many different levels about so many different things . |
| 5 | and I I 've thought about it and I 've thought about so many of them today I ca n't I 'm getting confused at which one it is . |
| 6 | Because you 've asked me about so many of them . |
| 7 | I can draw his face and his expressions , but words are all so used , they 've been used about so many other things and people . |
| 8 | They 'd talked , in a lazy , desultory fashion , about so many things that she 'd lost track . |
| 9 | As regards the salaries of the U S A we 've read and seen about so many companies that pay sky-high for v various salaries and other schemes , we do n't want that in this country but we do want a degree of evenness and I would repeat as somebody has already said , that your salary has gone up fifty six percent which is very , very high . |
| 10 | and I keep on saying that I 've said it like about so many things when we 're at home and she goes , what is this you always saying well with everything . |
| 11 | Daumier is famous for his satirical lithographs ; his equally good drawings and watercolours are less known as so many of them are in private collections . |
| 12 | Patronage was necessary , because it was expected that the member of parliament should be able to obtain it , a fact which goes a long way towards explaining the close links between so many Scots members of parliament and administration . |
| 13 | Given the opportunity , could so many electors have chosen intelligently between so many candidates ? |
| 14 | Expressing thanks for the gift said , ‘ Our success is due to the close co-operation between so many people — shipping agents , hauliers , the Port Authority , to name just a few , with whom we have formed great friendships and partnerships over the years . |
| 15 | Everyone knows Margaret as she travelled between so many departments . |
| 16 | He said , impressed by the growing co-operation between so many businesses and their local communities . |
| 17 | It is ironic that the British government should have gone through so many contortions over local government tax , finally to arrive at a system whereby the bulk of tax is raised centrally and distributed to the local authorities , while such a system has been the norm in Germany for decades . |
| 18 | She was tempted to use the weather as an excuse to postpone her visit to J. Pringle & Sons , but the work ethic that had carried her successfully through so many years of study and so many examinations now exerted its leverage on her conscience once more . |
| 19 | Willie had never walked through so many leaves . |
| 20 | ‘ Since we broke up a year ago I 've been through so many relationships , and my songs are now a lot more about being really fickle with women , and not knowing who I like , and being really insecure about who likes me . ’ |
| 21 | Like dissolves , slow motion can be useful for scenes of sexual love or simply for lovers ' meetings — a usage now long derided , though , and so no longer even parodied , after its long descent through so many TV commercials . |
| 22 | As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages , let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage coach , who have passed several days in the company of each other : and who , notwithstanding any bickerings or little animosities which may have occurred on the road , generally make up at last , and mount for the last time into their vehicle with cheerfulness and good humour ; since after this one stage , it may possibly happen to us , as it commonly happens to them , never to meet more . |
| 23 | When Henry Fielding introduces the word ‘ pages ’ into his stage coach metaphor ( 'As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages ' ) he reminds his audience that they are reading a book . |
| 24 | sort of well we ca n't pay this that and the other and the thing that really gets me and , and , you know , I , I 've tried to reason it through so many times but top er top of these mums ' sort of shopping list is these disposable nappies |
| 25 | He tried to tell himself that it did n't matter , that you could find the same situation all over the West End ; back in the long-lost days of sweetness and light he could remember taking his wife to a performance of Jesus Christ , Superstar when it had gone through so many cast changes that no-one was even bothering to count , and what a bunch of wankers they 'd been . |
| 26 | I 'd been through so many rehearsals of this moment in London . |
| 27 | He felt a touch of the animated earnestness that had carried him through so many meetings . |
| 28 | But they reckon when they did obviously it 's a set that probably someone had to say the same thing doing or the same person went through so many functions and it was worked using different ways of saying . |
| 29 | According to his biographer , Henry Bordeaux , even when he landed he remained in a trance ‘ as if electrified by the fluid still passing through his frame ’ Though through so many dogfights he seemed to bear a charmed life , this kind of nervous impulsiveness seemed bound to lead to disaster . |
| 30 | Went through so many operations he felt he wanted to give something back to the Health Service . |