Example sentences of "[pron] be [adj] that many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Capital values at least have the benefit of being related to a market , although I am sure that many owners will seek to convince their bank managers that their property should be in band H while they seek to convince the rating authorities that their property should really be in band F. |
| 2 | I am sure that many cases will be able to keep to that timetable , but I see difficulties in many others . |
| 3 | ‘ I am sure that many men are more generous than that , ’ Surtees observed . |
| 4 | I am convinced that many students often do not understand what is being said in teaching situations , though they become adept at pretending to , as they do not wish to lose face . |
| 5 | I am worried that many students may convert to being part time rather than full time , simply because they can not afford to be full-time students . |
| 6 | ‘ I would not advise lone female staff to carry money like this , although I am aware that many shops employ only females and have very little option , ’ said Det Insp Phoenix . |
| 7 | Now I 'm aware that many parents bring their children for baptism from reasons of superstition or custom or anything you like I 'm reminded of a certain tax gatherer who , inspired by sheer idle curiosity , climbed a tree curiosity maybe took him up the tree but it was the grace of God that brought him down . |
| 8 | We are aware that many employees are interested to learn about what Wood Group companies do and where they are located . |
| 9 | It is probable that many factors are involved in the incidence , and that these vary among populations . |
| 10 | While the woman has no natural way of eliminating the infection , it is probable that many men carry the infection in the urethra for a matter of a few days only , after which the flushing action of passing urine may eliminate the organisms . |
| 11 | It is probable that many patients are treated privately and so these cases are not notified and also that some patients may come to England for diagnosis and treatment . |
| 12 | If , conversely , one used educational and type-of-occupation criteria to classify individuals ( and these are highly relevant to the question of how standard a speaker 's language is ) , it is probable that many wives , especially those of working-class men , would come out above their husbands . |
| 13 | His career was not without its less attractive moments , and it is sad that many fans will remember the famous picture in the 1981 Wisden of him kicking down the stumps after having an appeal refused in New Zealand almost as readily as they will recall his wonderful bowling ; yet even in dissent he was physically graceful , and the picture is positively balletic . |
| 14 | It is possible that many cases of petty assault were instituted as retaliation for verbal abuse . |
| 15 | The communist party should not be banned , it is true that many members of it did support er an coup , on the other hand so many people joined the communist party for advancement and it 's not very democratic to ban a party which has had su such power and such membership . |
| 16 | It is true that many films and television programmes are about violence and murder and it does n't take long for children to copy ideas . |
| 17 | It is true that many sociologists of religion have suggested definitions of their subject matter , but there is no clear agreement and it can be argued that if we were to stick to only one definition then we would not be able to ask — let alone answer — some of the questions in which they are interested . |
| 18 | It is unlikely that many Europeans would have had access to Aristotle 's writings , but the cuckoo 's habits were certainly well enough known during the Middle Ages for them to be mentioned by Chaucer ( in The Parlement of Foules , 1382 ) , and for the term ‘ cuckold ’ — describing a man deceived by his wife — to have passed into the English language . |
| 19 | It is unlikely that many visitors will peer too closely into the workings of Spain after a decade of socialist rule . |
| 20 | It is notorious that many scientists do not love words : scientific language has already had a disastrous effect on the use of language throughout society . |
| 21 | It is likely that many changes will take place in the near future . |
| 22 | Since pigeons ' ears are not exceptional , it is likely that many birds can pick up infrasound . |
| 23 | Total membership fluctuated widely around 5,000 and it is clear that many members only stayed with the Party for a short time . |
| 24 | It is clear that many others — perhaps Lanfranc too — saw this . |
| 25 | In the meantime , it is clear that many judges consider that the Lord Chancellor 's Department has ceased to act as an intermediary or ‘ hinge ’ between themselves and the executive Government and has become as much a part of the governmental machinery as any other Department of State . |
| 26 | Also , it has proved very difficult to reproduce the events which led to Fleming 's famous observation , and it is clear that many versions of the story which were published 15 or more years later , after penicillin became famous , drew on faded but vivacious memories and are more or less imaginary . |
| 27 | Constituency party activists were certainly mostly pro-Thatcher , but it is clear that many MPs used the secrecy of the ballot to oppose her . |
| 28 | Indeed , it is notable that many contemporaries saw the Revolution as being mainly a Tory achievement . |
| 29 | With such a variety of floral devices it is inevitable that many comparisons with other second century mosaics are possible . |
| 30 | He is aware that many Christians of his day — as in our own — find the whole idea of the contemplative life alien . |