Example sentences of "[coord] many [prep] [art] [noun pl] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Most of the workers in telecottages and many of the users are women .
2 The vote will be seen as a victory for the local authorities , who put so much pressure on the clubs , and many of the delegates were relieved that the vote had taken away the threat of possible punitive action from their local councils .
3 Regions of the old DDR have been subsumed into the new federal states of Germany , and many of the sources are housed in what must now be called the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin , Preussischer Kulturbesitz — a name that in itself sums up the problems of uniting the two Germanies .
4 Miss Christine Murphy , a spokeswoman for the Public Health Laboratory Service - a Government-funded but independent organisation which also monitors levels of illness — said : ‘ This year 's virus is a sub-type of a strain we have seen before and many of the cases are not severe .
5 Miss Christine Murphy , a spokeswoman for the Public Health Laboratory Service - a Government-funded but independent organisation which also monitors levels of illness — said : ‘ This year 's virus is a sub-type of a strain we have seen before and many of the cases are not severe .
6 So if public and private are increasingly converging in institutional form and environmental challenges , and many of the tasks are similar , what is the analytical distinction between the two forms of management ?
7 Important or insignificant , customs appointments were , however , obtainable only by those who could expect a political favour , and many of the officers were in fact the nominees of a member of parliament and often the active partisans of that politician .
8 Another teacher told me , after attending in-service courses , that while the approach offers an exciting avenue to explore which pupils find rewarding and even mind- blowing , and many of the exercises are valuable as a means of self-awareness , she felt that pupils were being steered towards abandoning the mind as a means of knowing and just accepting the subjectivity of values which do not have to be justified .
9 Now I think it also is important that we recognize that as a university and as colleges we have a responsibility for the sort of environment , the education environment , that we provide our students , but I think we also have to remember that these students are eighteen years old when they come up , they are twenty one when they graduate , and many of the students are older than that , they are graduate students and they are young adults .
10 Although many homes may be managed by men , most of the low paid care assistants , and many of the residents are likely to be women .
11 The Victorians had very different ideas on keeping animals in captivity to those we hold now , and many of the buildings are totally unsuitable by today 's standards .
12 He was in the main street before nine o'clock and many of the shops were not yet open ; assistants were waiting in doorways for the boss to arrive with the keys .
13 The truth is that there are a few sites ( especially in North America ) where abundant remains of complete animals have been recovered , and from which a passable idea of the fauna of the Mesozoic can be obtained , but there are still great gaps in our knowledge , and many of the dinosaurs are known from a handful of individuals , or even a single specimen .
14 Most of these were at important royal or administrative centres , and many of the churches were in the form of minsters or missionary centres .
15 Another problem arises from the form of the inscriptions ; most are lists of short , terse statements — objects , numbers and dedicatees — and many of the words are proper names , so it is possible to make false interpretations without the errors becoming apparent subsequently , as they would in a longer and more connected text .
16 And many of the names are of the household variety — Jim McKeever , Phil Stuart , Hugh Francis Gribben , Sean O'Connell and the rest .
17 Tiny bas-relief cameos are produced by the unique processes of figuremaking and ornamenting and many of the subjects are taken from Greek and Roman mythology .
18 Those knitters who do not have the Passap/Pfaff knitting system may still find the book useful for pattern ideas and many of the designs are suitable for use on other electronic machines .
19 Birds like the two-way escape route which a hedge provides and many of the shrubs are food plants for insects .
20 For many years the town continued to develop , mainly due to an abundance of water power from the rivers , and many of the settlers were from his native town of Irvine , Ayrshire .
21 In fact , during the Hundred Years War ( 1337 to 1453 ) , the people of Bordeaux took the English side , and many of the vineyards were destroyed in revenge .
22 A particular concern is back-siphonage — the contamination of the mains supply with dirty water or water from a storage cistern being drawn back into it — and many of the bye-laws are designed to prevent this .
23 The audience was limited but many of the articles were reissued in pamphlet form .
24 Spyridon Marinatos emphasized the Cycladic features of the settlement there , but many of the finds are more typically Minoan : the house plans are not dissimilar to those at Tylissos , with typically Minoan pier-and-door partitions , lustral areas , and Minoan pottery forms in local ware .
25 Above her the metal framework of the roof made an unbroken tracery of lines against the grey sky , but many of the panes were cracked or broken , or entirely missing .
26 But many of the islanders are against any deal with PNG .
27 But many of the plastics being used in the linings are relatively untried and nobody has any real idea how long they will last .
28 Its population was less likely to be comprised of skilled workers but many of the men were seafarers and traditions of innovative and flexible organization were strong .
29 The neighbouring city of Napier was entirely rebuilt after an earthquake in 1931 and this is not only a feature of the museum but many of the buildings are still in the style of the period , Art Deco .
30 The scenes are in no way complete but many of the heads are remarkably well preserved and executed in a highly sophisticated style reminiscent of Italian art of the same date .
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