Example sentences of "and many [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glover has been training for only five years , and many a famous name has yet to come within spitting distance of the race , so the achievement was remarkable . |
| 2 | And many a night I spent at The Greyhound watching Brinsley Schwarz , diligently studying Nick Lowe 's bass playing . |
| 3 | Many and many a time have we looked , have I alone in more recent years looked , for certain things thus revealed to us in passing . |
| 4 | Hilarious designs have been churned out of the factories and many a massive tongue has been laughed at . |
| 5 | Often the battle is lost , and many a seaside town has disappeared beneath the waves ( while others , such as the once-thriving port of Rye in Kent , have been left high and dry as the sea retreated ) . |
| 6 | But until we study the life cycles of animals in fine detail , we can not know precisely which creatures depend upon what ; and many a creature has been wiped out not because its entire habitat has disappeared , but simply because some favoured site has been obliterated . |
| 7 | But spoliation has also been inadvertent , and many a Scandinavian lake has now been sterilized by rain made acid by the exhausts of motor cars and factories , hundreds of miles away . |
| 8 | And many a quack has traded on the anguish of cancer sufferers and the credulity of their friends . |
| 9 | Hopefully , however , the Full Moon in Aries on the 14th will bring this dreary little phase or cycle to an end and many a Leo will be moving in , moving out and putting down new roots elsewhere . |
| 10 | Then might you have seen many a horse running about the field with the saddle under his belly , and many a horseman in evil plight upon the ground . |
| 11 | This was a chance not only to see some sport , but to make some extra money , and many a good profit made on a good deal on the Friday was lost on a poor horse on the Saturday . |
| 12 | Foxes have thick pelts and many a fox has died from gangrene caused by shotgun pellets ; again a slow and agonising death . |
| 13 | But visitors were welcome as the flowers in May , and many a happy Sunday afternoon swimming party off the Windrush cliffs was enjoyed by all , including the occasional group of Kunio 's student friends from U.B.C. |
| 14 | Bransby Cooper says that ‘ I have sometimes suffered from the Professor 's love of cold air ; for if ever he could manage at his parties to have a window left open unperceived , he was delighted ; and many a time when I have dined with him I have said ‘ Pray , Mr Coleman , have your ventilators shut or I shall be blown out of the room ’ , at which he laughed and had the direction of the current changed by stealth so as to apply the breeze upon some other visitor less sensitive than myself' . |
| 15 | In this 14 kilometre climb , we will witness wonderful feats of bravery — and many a rider abandoning in tears , simply unable to continue , even so close to the finishing line . |
| 16 | ‘ The finest views are from the bottom , and at some places a little above it , but few dare venture to the bottom particularly those females whose pedestrian excursions have chiefly been upon level ground ; nay the male sex are often appalled with a view of the way , and many a Bond-street gentleman , in his stable costume , would rather hazard his neck four-in-hand , than risk it by having his arms precariously supported by the twigs and branches he may find in his way to the gulph below . ’ |
| 17 | More often it turns out to have weaknesses of its own and many a general theory ends up as tomorrow 's ‘ special case ’ , explaining something but not everything . |
| 18 | Many a promising liaison must have been nipped in the bud by Algernon being a duffer at flower arranging or breaking the significant corn stalk with a clumsy tweak ; and many a passion choked to premature death because Augusta absentmindedly pinched the petals off her posy of moss rosebuds and myrtle . |
| 19 | The compensatory factor was that old-school professionals did not usually have their own transport and many a signature was cajoled out of them on their way to nearest railway station or tram or bus stop . |
| 20 | He inspired a genuine affection in both his pupils and staff , and many a young tearaway returned to the straight and narrow as the result of his firm but compassionate influence . |
| 21 | This is often far from the case and many a combination has come to grief at the very last fence . |
| 22 | It needs little in the way of special equipment other than a portable cassette recorder and microphone , and many a pleasant hour can be spent in collecting background sounds of various kinds . |
| 23 | Many of the people on my courses on dying , for example , had never really come to terms with the inevitability of death in their own lives , and many a time we had to stop to allow distressed and upset people to leave the room . |
| 24 | The acquisition of grave-clothes did not need to wait until death , and many a young bride-to-be , especially in the more remote country areas , included such items in their trousseaus , either buying them ready-made from one of the known outlets , or having them made by a local seamstress , or producing them herself . |
| 25 | She said many a wicked word , and many a cruel word ; she knew no virtue or goodness , she desired all wickedness ; like as the spirits tempted her to say and do , so she said and did ’ . |
| 26 | Whatever it was her mind had said to her , she answered with , Well , it 's better than thousands of others in the town , and many a one would be glad of it . |
| 27 | ‘ There 's many a worse place , Aggie , and many a worse person to take charge of a child . |
| 28 | Ties can be literally of make or break importance , and many a fine tree is scarred for life and ruined by carelessness and neglect , purely as a result of not doing this part of the job properly . |
| 29 | Once a valuable and historic site , Alghero has witnessed much upheaval and many a conflict . |
| 30 | Boats and windsurfers cut through the ripples , children laugh in the shallows and many a head turning tan has been collected on the beaches . |