Example sentences of "[be] [verb] that many [noun pl] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Geoffrey Ross comments ‘ It has been noticed that many men wash their hair in water that is too hot ( which over-stimulates the sebaceous glands and so makes the scalp greasier than it should be ) and are rough-actioned with the towel when drying the hair . |
| 2 | Not only is there a lack of research evidence to support this view , but it has been argued that many children do better remaining in a single-parent family than in having to make further adjustments to a third form of family life — the step-family ( Richards and Dyson , 1982 ) . |
| 3 | During a 17-month-long crackdown on burglary across London detectives have been told that many thieves use the drivers for shifting hi-fis , televisions and videos . |
| 4 | It can be argued that many projects fall into this category , perhaps usefully called development engineering . |
| 5 | They should be shown that many texts make assumptions about knowledge shared by the author and reader . |
| 6 | It should also be noted that many universities offer extra-mural courses which have no fixed entrance requirements , that the Open University is open entry in terms of prior qualifications , and that many institutions are now developing ‘ access ’ courses which provide non-standard routes of entry to first degrees . |
| 7 | It ca n't be denied that many players have John Mayall to thank for their career launch … |
| 8 | It should be mentioned that many economists regard search unemployment as inevitable and , at least in one sense , desirable . |
| 9 | Most astonishingly , it has recently been discovered that many trees send out messages of danger when under attack from insects . |
| 10 | It is hypothesised that many children do not assimilate the link between the pre-requisite experiences and the generalisation which follows , as for example in the finding of the area of a rectangle by counting squares and the presentation of a formula which generalises the results . |
| 11 | Research is showing that many animals respond to other weather cues . |
| 12 | This theory was threatened when it was discovered that many substances gain weight after combustion . |