Example sentences of "that many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One difficulty with the term is that many contemporaries would never have been prepared to apply the word ‘ culture ’ to the new preoccupations of the masses . |
| 2 | Indeed , it is notable that many contemporaries saw the Revolution as being mainly a Tory achievement . |
| 3 | This dovetailed with reports that the Securitate shot soldiers who refused to kill demonstrators and that many servicemen joined the side of the protesters in Timisoara . |
| 4 | More worryingly , many consumers said they did not like the taste , but much of that could be put down to the fact that many housewives had a narrow cooking repertoire with an average of only two turkey variations . |
| 5 | Thus for official purposes the old reckoning of 25 March was used , but its employment for unofficial and private purposes was waning to the extent that many documents carried a double indicator for the period 1 January to 24 March , as was illustrated by the inventory quoted in the Historical Year section , above . |
| 6 | A survey of more than 50 finance directors across the country , carried out by marketing consultants the Glanville Partnership and sold to accounting firms , reveals that many directors see the middle tier as being under great pressure . |
| 7 | Some commentators also note that many directors of small companies might well refuse to provide their auditors with the proposed statement and the supporting evidence ; if this proves to be correct , it will result in a significant increase in the number of limitation of scope qualifications . |
| 8 | In continuous speech the lack of acoustic cues to word boundaries , together with phonological variations in pronunciation , means that many stretches of speech can be parsed into words in more than one way . |
| 9 | The major cause of occupational immobility is the fact that many skills are not easily transferable from one occupation to another . |
| 10 | McManus notes that ‘ aggression does not pay off for girls in the way some boys find it does for them ’ , with the result that many girls adapt to the social world of school in a different way . |
| 11 | I know that many girls who become anorexic set out with this express intention , and may even be able to persuade themselves that this is the sole cause ( whole truth ) of their subsequent condition . |
| 12 | It was decided I should go to special school and my mother 's objections were mollified by the proof of the academic success that many girls achieved there . |
| 13 | The difficulties that many girls and boys have in talking to parents about sex and contraception often make it a subject to be mutually avoided . |
| 14 | Becoming officially pregnant so late means that many girls do not attend antenatal classes or clinic appointments , they carry on smoking and drinking , and probably eating food that is not particularly healthy . |
| 15 | From a local survey they found that many girls of this age were very frightened in labour , which made it worse , and that they had little idea about coping with a tiny baby . |
| 16 | I doubt me that many ladies write for old J.D. — a dubious proposition , that . ’ |
| 17 | At its purest , Indian English also preserves an elegance that many Britons have forgotten . |
| 18 | Such systems fundamentally imply that many teachers should deliberately restrict their level of engagement with children and that the finely woven ( and seamless ) web of human relationships can be rationalised , divided , timetabled and generally routinised to such an extent that it can be systemised ( or bureaucratised ) ! |
| 19 | Although Hoyle 's model can be criticised on the grounds that the ideal types do not exist , or that many teachers exhibit characteristics from both sides of the model , it nevertheless exposes crucial aspects of the relationships between teachers and the organisations in which they work when used in the heuristic format for which it was intended . |
| 20 | Teachers ' union officials admit that many teachers earn more from private tutoring than from their official jobs . |
| 21 | One of the consequences of the difficult situation in schools and the low pay was that many teachers left the profession , even to work in the informal labour sector , and some moved to other countries . |
| 22 | I know that many teachers of the present day think that learning by rote is archaic . |
| 23 | These are in fact the only options that many teachers feel are open to them . |
| 24 | It is a fact that many teachers have precious little elbow room , and that often this confinement is created , or exacerbated , by other people 's actions . |
| 25 | Other studies have also shown that many teachers express stereotyped and often contradictory generalizations about black pupils , with some teachers tending to regard Afro-Caribbean pupils as lazy and withdrawn while others thought them to be aggressive and disruptive ; a common stereotype of Asian pupils among teachers is that they are passive and industrious but they and their parents are over-ambitious ( Brittan , 1976 ; Giles , 1977 ; Verma , 1982 ; Lee and Wrench , 1983 ; Swann , 1985 ; Eggleston et al . , |
| 26 | Afro-Caribbean and Asian children are indeed painfully aware that many teachers view them negatively and some studies have documented reports of routine racist remarks by teachers ( see for example Wright in this volume ) . |
| 27 | We regard it as unlikely that many teachers in the near future will be able to handle facilities of this range and power amid the pressures of the classroom . |
| 28 | It would therefore not be too unfair to conclude that many teachers , whether in primary or secondary schools , are , by tradition , unfamiliar with discussions that involve the whole curriculum of a school . |
| 29 | One symptomatic phenomenon was revealed in my own research in Leicester for an Open University television programme , when I found that many teachers of English were unwilling to come to terms with the interest and creative potential of Asian students in English language , literature and drama . |
| 30 | 4.3.4 The assumption made in this section of the Unit is that many teachers will be in a position to collaborate with specialists based in Language Units or in Ethnic Minority support groups , members of which will assume responsibility for teaching the initial stages of English as a Second Language . |