Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the many [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are grateful for the opportunity to comment on the many important proposition for future policy and action by CCW contained in this paper . |
| 2 | Mourning helps us to escape from the many different kinds of self-imprisonment . |
| 3 | The principle is thus clear , though difficult to apply in the many practical situations which arise . |
| 4 | But here the descriptions play an important role , and serious students would do well to read them carefully ; for not only do they tell more than any photograph ever can , including technical details of construction , but , when studied with the photographs , or in front of the objects themselves , they are invaluable in helping to focus on the many significant details which might otherwise go unnoticed . |
| 5 | In all three cases the effect would have been to create merged units of a size able to compete with the many powerful US , European and Japanese companies now increasingly dominating the world scene ; for example , the Leyland/Bedford trucks merger provides a scale that neither could achieve on its own . |
| 6 | I will not attempt to compete with the many existing ones , but use an indirect definition by listing the most important characteristics of innovative projects : |
| 7 | The celebration of this World Communications Day underlines the need for the Church to respond to the many unprecedented changes brought about by the communications media and their effects on modern living . |
| 8 | The pale green mount was chosen to blend with the many different shades of leaves and flowers that I had in store , and is made from a linen textured mountboard which gives a more interesting effect than plain green card . |
| 9 | However , in the USA , the chemical fallout from industry and agriculture has prompted an environmental expert to warn of the many unseen air pollutants which are not covered by the Clean Air Act and are damaging not only to human health — linked to ills from leukaemia to heart disease — but are implicated in the formation of ‘ acid rain' which has devastated vast tracts of forest ( Begley , 1988 ) . |