Example sentences of "many [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 This is my blood , the blood of the covenant , shed for many for me forgiveness of sins .
2 There are far too many for me to examine them all properly in this article .
3 But she opened the door just like I wanted and I shot through to the living room only to encounter more men in dark clothes , too many for me to tolerate .
4 Equally , there are too many for them to have been purely phonetic or syllabic .
5 Good boy , there ai n't many for you erm , cos you 'll all eat biscuits till the
6 Too many for us .
7 This is far too many for us ever to be able to solve the equations and predict how the brain would behave , given its initial state and the nerve data coming into it .
8 ‘ That 's too many for us to frighten away with a show of force . ’
9 The delegates went to the border and spent three days there screening hundreds of people and conducting in-depth interviews with many of them .
10 She is looking for critical views against which to pitch her own ; it seems that she may have chosen the wrong sort of topic , since on a holiday in Italy she had been stunned by the newly renovated Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and although there were plenty of books about it , many of them went into extravagant detail .
11 A more mundane project for a survey writer is to scan Western art , which has often been attempted in series of books , many of them , as Roger Fry 's comments implied , by German historians .
12 The first difficulty is , despite the destructions , the enormous number of existing pictures , many of them signed , and in one way or another more or less Bellinesque .
13 There was a time when it must have seemed to many of them that he would never receive a bad review , or even a cross word .
14 It is clear that in the past many of them have considered loyalty to be a two-way process , a contract or covenant , and that the state could be a traitorous party as well as the people .
15 Many of them appear to have been angered and disappointed at the church 's suppression of the proposed scheme .
16 In the North , clergy dominate the catholic sector , while a protestant and loyalist culture predominates in the state schools — albeit with a developed secular and liberal aspect in many of them .
17 The remaining passengers — there were not many of them — had in the meanwhile managed to make their way , by scrambling from the outside of one car to the next , to the safety of the solid wooden landing stage .
18 ‘ You read too many of them detective stories . ’
19 It took many of them an awful long time even to introduce themselves .
20 In their defence , I 'm not the most approachable woman in the world and many of them were simply unused to female company .
21 My colleagues seemed genuinely worried by my decision and many of them tried to convince me to change my mind .
22 A garden is a balanced community of plants , creatures and micro-organisms , many of them beneficial .
23 One of his particular enjoyments at camp was the log-fire singing , whose ebullience and rhythms remain with him even today , many of them drawn from The People 's Song Book .
24 The only small crumb of comfort is that , since May 1990 , tenants ( but not managers ) of national brewers ' pubs can buy guest cask ales free of the tie — but the nationals have been quick to dominate this new market niche by organising their own lists of ‘ guest beers ’ , many of them brewed by their own subsidiaries .
25 He fears the impact on the traditional character of pubs if the brewers have their way and turn many of them over the leaseholders .
26 Many of them live out in the provinces so we keep a good range of beers that include some from their part of the world , ’ explained Jim .
27 Many of them are only followed for the first pitch , either because they finish up easier slabs ( which might well suit some people ) or become much harder .
28 Until a few years ago most wood dyes tended to fade in strong sunlight , but now many of them contain transparent iron oxides , which do not fade and can be used on interior and exterior woodwork .
29 Simulators have come a long way in recent years and today many of them use screen addressing to update the information .
30 Many of them would do perfectly well in disciplines which are less idiosyncratic than English and have a more obvious international currency , like linguistics or economics or marketing .
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