Example sentences of "[vb past] many [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They provided many of the resources for the celebrations and allowed the students to proceed as they wished with few officials presiding over events . |
| 2 | Indeed , early exchange activities could not have done , since towns did not exist before late prehistoric times , and in later times periodic markets and fairs provided many of the opportunities for trade . |
| 3 | Under G.V. Chicherin , who became head of the People 's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs ( Narkomindel ) in March 1918 , Soviet diplomacy rapidly readopted many of the methods of the old regime . |
| 4 | Inside , the Richards lined many of the rooms with wainscots and the big bolection moulded panels of the time , mostly in the fashionable white wood , save for an oak room on the first floor . |
| 5 | The case made by Cartwright , Travers and other Puritan divines was that the Church of England retained many of the errors of Rome . |
| 6 | White excelled in this role and for the rest of his life retained many of the attributes of the old-fashioned schoolmaster . |
| 7 | Mr Seymour headed an inquiry into the Bellgrove crash but when his report was eventually published , it ignored many of the recommendations of a separate fatal accident inquiry into it . |
| 8 | The Law Commission , in their Report No 160 on Sale and Supply of Goods ( 1987 ) , recognised many of the weaknesses in the present law on merchantable quality ( paras 3.4 – 6 ) and recommended a new definition to be adopted in all contracts involving supply of goods . |
| 9 | We shall see in later chapters how this conception shaped many of the uses of the social survey , to mention but one example . |
| 10 | He sold many of the rights to MGM 's film library to help finance his takeover . |
| 11 | It even had a shot at controlling motorway service areas , provoking a debate which encapsulated many of the attitudes of the time . |
| 12 | Council leader Mike Carr said the areas covered in City Challenge Two shared many of the problems of the eastern part of the town , which won round one of the contest . |
| 13 | As an ideology , labour socialism shared many of the features of labourism . |
| 14 | Guerrilla warfare shared many of the characteristics of resistance movements in the Second World War . |
| 15 | The evidence for Cade 's operations suggests that they shared many of the characteristics of the better known Italian merchant bankers of the late middle ages . |
| 16 | Despite these particular difficulties with older urban areas , it is generally true to say that in less than a decade the Dutch created and adopted a revolutionary residential environment which , even in car-dominated cities , displayed many of the benefits of the street in the pre-motorised era . |
| 17 | Their findings echoed many of the criticisms by the family Rights Group and the National Association of Young People in Care , over the adversarial and high-handed approaches adopted by social workers once they decided on admission ( thus on a court order ) , and over the care experience for children and links with parents . |
| 18 | That 's the view of the man who signed many of the cheques during Souness 's reign at Rangers . |
| 19 | What Marx was trying to do in constructing the Asiatic system was to reconcile , on the one hand the reports of the strength of the village communities which characterized many of the accounts of Asian villages and which was manifested in their apparent ability to act organically , for example in the close co-operation and mutual reasonableness required in irrigated agriculture , and , on the other hand , a traditional view of the despotism of oriental rulers , a view which dominated European pictures of the Orient , at least since the time of Montesquieu . |
| 20 | The essential unity of the stratigraphy and tectonics of the Palaeozoic on opposite sides of the North Atlantic was pointed out by Bailey ( 1929 ) , and developed in two important papers by Waterschoot van der Gracht in 1938 ( a and b ) which anticipated many of the conclusions of plate tectonics , and charted the course of the Variscan Front under southern Britain and Ireland . |
| 21 | Again , the proposals of the Next Five Years Group anticipated many of the developments of the 1940s , such as a National Development Board , greater public investment in housing , the co-ordination of social services to achieve a ‘ National Minimum ’ , the expansion of secondary education , and town and country planning . |
| 22 | This man combined many of the jobs of parish priest , village policeman , eponymous magistrate ( Fornara 90B , the Rharmous accounts ) and even collector for the inland revenue : the debtor Strepsiades in Aristophanes ' Clouds is bitten by a ‘ demarch under the bedclothes ’ ( line 37 ) , and demarchs collected the eisphora , a capital tax . |
| 23 | When the first draft of Li 's report was presented a fortnight ago it incorporated many of the demands for faster reform voiced earlier this year by China 's elder statesman , Deng Xiaoping . |
| 24 | I knew many of the manufacturers from my brief career on the amateur circuit , and was always fascinated by the gimmicks that appeared without fail every year . |
| 25 | The new accord contained many of the elements of the Meech Lake agreement , including the recognition of Quebec as a distinct society . |
| 26 | The new accord contained many of the elements of the Meech Lake agreement , including the recognition of Quebec as a distinct society . |
| 27 | Print absorbed many of the hours of solitary darkness . |
| 28 | A friend of Degas , who was probably the most potent influence on his art , he absorbed many of the doctrines of Impressionism — especially its concern with contemporary life , even at its most squalid . |
| 29 | Gwynedd 's chief executive Huw Thomas said many of the lessons of the Towyn flood disaster were being put into practice . |
| 30 | Certainly he had many of the qualities of a Sturt or a Leichhardt : he was energetic and determined , hardy and resilient , and emboldened by an overwhelming sense of curiosity . |