Example sentences of "many [noun pl] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly he died shortly afterwards and for many reasons it was some months before I used the disc . |
| 2 | In the 1970 's and early ‘ 80 's the Club saw more changes than in the whole of its earlier history , so much so that in 1976 former President Tom Luker said of the course shortly before his death ( 1977 ) , ‘ It has been modified so many times it has gone full circle ’ . |
| 3 | I was wrong so many times it was unbelievable . |
| 4 | Do not give your camera to a passing stranger and ask him to take a picture of you , so many times it has happened that the stranger has then run off with it . |
| 5 | Masklin wondered how many times it had industriously cleaned this corridor , while it waited for nomes to come back … . |
| 6 | Many times it appears to be used so that other qualities of the work — the wide assortment of materials it might be constructed of , say , or the way it is attached to the wall — can take centre stage , much in the way that a black and white photograph allows you to concentrate on matters otherwise obscured or de-emphasized by colour . |
| 7 | One British Tank Brigade commander commented : ‘ Many times it was impossible to hear or be heard when speaking to Corps Headquarters at a distance of five or six miles . ’ |
| 8 | She subsided wordlessly , wondering ironically how many times it was possible for the same heart to break before there was nothing left of it . |
| 9 | The drawing number alone can tell one what size it is , where to find it , what product or process it describes , in how much detail , whether it is on micro-fiche , how many times it has been modified . |
| 10 | Speakers were given a score of one point for each one of these features that occurred in their speech , irrespective of how many times it occurred . |
| 11 | I 've bitten my tongue so many times it 's got holes in it ’ |
| 12 | He 's been told to go to the office so many times it like yeah , yeah , alright ! |
| 13 | I did n't actually and I picked the rabbit up twice , so many times it did n't bite me . |
| 14 | The letter from Mr. Roper in the March issue of the Record claims that in many authorities it has been staff themselves who have initiated the blacking of News International newspapers . |
| 15 | At many clubs it is compulsory for everyone to have at least one dual flight at the beginning of the season before flying solo again . |
| 16 | Yes when when there were three men Right when there were three men , that 's how many hours it took . |
| 17 | To sit in a car with that Cook woman for however many hours it was , I simply could n't do it ! |
| 18 | But she 's offered me a relief post as I say , where I go round and help but she do n't know how many hours it will be . |
| 19 | While the latter is the practical reality in many cases it is certainly not the legal position . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's difficult to estimate the cost of making your house safe if it is found to have a serious problem , but in many cases it will be around £1,000 . |
| 21 | So in many cases it 's a matter of where you live ’ |
| 22 | .. [ which ] in the case of people who are not constitutionally sound becomes so dangerous that in many cases it develops into a ‘ consumption ’ … and the wisest course for such people to adopt is to leave England and cross the sea . |
| 23 | Moreover in many cases it is implausible . |
| 24 | The lay subsidy rolls of the fourteenth century yield much information on the subject of bynames and surnames for all categories of persons , and in many cases it seems true to say that such names were not necessarily applied to whole families nor ( given that they appear in different forms in successive rolls ) can they be judged to have stabilized . |
| 25 | It is of course true that in many cases it will be stated that the nave is , for example , twelfth-century , the chancel fifteenth ( with nineteenth-century restorations ) , the north chapel twentieth , and so on , but it will not record the stained glass now gone or the wall monuments which have decayed ( or , obviously , the changes wrought since the booklet was written ) . |
| 26 | Indeed , in many cases it appears that the ellipsis is interpreted with reference to a content-based representation . |
| 27 | In many cases it is particularly important to discuss the reasons for not prescribing psychotropic drugs . |
| 28 | In many cases it is extremely difficult to carry out tests under truly controlled conditions , because the external conditions are changing throughout the time period in question . |
| 29 | Occasionally official syllabuses contain very detailed advice for teachers and in one case ( Botswana ) , a separate , loose-leaf file has been prepared for each grade , but in many cases it is the teachers ' guide , or even the pupils ' text which provides the real plan from which the teacher works . |
| 30 | In many cases it is she who develops an opportunity for talk with the children , following their interest in the activities provided , and pursues attention to ideas like one-to-one correspondence , comparison and so on . |