Example sentences of "it be [adj] [conj] many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | It is probable that many factors are involved in the incidence , and that these vary among populations . |
2 | While the woman has no natural way of eliminating the infection , it is probable that many men carry the infection in the urethra for a matter of a few days only , after which the flushing action of passing urine may eliminate the organisms . |
3 | It is probable that many patients are treated privately and so these cases are not notified and also that some patients may come to England for diagnosis and treatment . |
4 | If , conversely , one used educational and type-of-occupation criteria to classify individuals ( and these are highly relevant to the question of how standard a speaker 's language is ) , it is probable that many wives , especially those of working-class men , would come out above their husbands . |
5 | His career was not without its less attractive moments , and it is sad that many fans will remember the famous picture in the 1981 Wisden of him kicking down the stumps after having an appeal refused in New Zealand almost as readily as they will recall his wonderful bowling ; yet even in dissent he was physically graceful , and the picture is positively balletic . |
6 | It is possible that many cases of petty assault were instituted as retaliation for verbal abuse . |
7 | The communist party should not be banned , it is true that many members of it did support er an coup , on the other hand so many people joined the communist party for advancement and it 's not very democratic to ban a party which has had su such power and such membership . |
8 | It is true that many films and television programmes are about violence and murder and it does n't take long for children to copy ideas . |
9 | It is true that many sociologists of religion have suggested definitions of their subject matter , but there is no clear agreement and it can be argued that if we were to stick to only one definition then we would not be able to ask — let alone answer — some of the questions in which they are interested . |
10 | It is unlikely that many Europeans would have had access to Aristotle 's writings , but the cuckoo 's habits were certainly well enough known during the Middle Ages for them to be mentioned by Chaucer ( in The Parlement of Foules , 1382 ) , and for the term ‘ cuckold ’ — describing a man deceived by his wife — to have passed into the English language . |
11 | It is unlikely that many visitors will peer too closely into the workings of Spain after a decade of socialist rule . |
12 | It is notorious that many scientists do not love words : scientific language has already had a disastrous effect on the use of language throughout society . |
13 | It is likely that many changes will take place in the near future . |
14 | Since pigeons ' ears are not exceptional , it is likely that many birds can pick up infrasound . |
15 | Total membership fluctuated widely around 5,000 and it is clear that many members only stayed with the Party for a short time . |
16 | It is clear that many others — perhaps Lanfranc too — saw this . |
17 | In the meantime , it is clear that many judges consider that the Lord Chancellor 's Department has ceased to act as an intermediary or ‘ hinge ’ between themselves and the executive Government and has become as much a part of the governmental machinery as any other Department of State . |
18 | Also , it has proved very difficult to reproduce the events which led to Fleming 's famous observation , and it is clear that many versions of the story which were published 15 or more years later , after penicillin became famous , drew on faded but vivacious memories and are more or less imaginary . |
19 | Constituency party activists were certainly mostly pro-Thatcher , but it is clear that many MPs used the secrecy of the ballot to oppose her . |
20 | Indeed , it is notable that many contemporaries saw the Revolution as being mainly a Tory achievement . |
21 | With such a variety of floral devices it is inevitable that many comparisons with other second century mosaics are possible . |
22 | But it is doubtful whether many Greeks were taken in by such propaganda . |
23 | The Conservatives did not increase these allowances , but it is doubtful whether many voters were influenced to change their allegiances on this issue . |
24 | From our interviews and observations it was apparent that many members were experiencing frustration through a lack of sense of direction or achievement in this field ( in the survey 25% of respondents felt that their board had achieved little in any field of activity ) , although they were not clear how this might be improved . |
25 | The familiar fraction " ½ " " is a much more common answer for lower attainers than 0.5 , and in the section on number it was evident that many pupils find it difficult to go from the fraction to the decimal even in this the most familiar case . |
26 | Candy would be no match for him — it was doubtful if many women would be . |
27 | In a century of imperial expansion it was inevitable that many sons died far from home and not , as they might have wished , in the bosom of the family . |
28 | NB In spite of our attempt to seek information relating only to time spent on specific work on the nature of language and its role in the world , it was clear that many respondents considered that any course on ( e.g. ) language teaching methods or reading methods was entirely ‘ about ’ language . |