Example sentences of "many [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Winters are wild enough to curtail many of the outdoor pursuits that attract in the first place . |
| 2 | Moreover , many of the international deals that made US military action possible in the Gulf , were conceived of , or concluded during the UN World Summit for Children in September 1990 . |
| 3 | Is n't it awful , ’ said Breeze , ‘ that so many of the nice things that happen to one person have a sort of reflex action on another ? |
| 4 | Many of the fern-like fronds that can be found in Carboniferous rocks belong to an extinct group of plants sharing a common ancestor with the ferns , but distinct enough to be regarded as entirely separate . |
| 5 | How many of the major companies that broke the law at Christmas and were not prosecuted are contributors to Conservative party funds ? |
| 6 | During the six years since he joined the company , he has been involved in many of the major changes that have taken place . |
| 7 | Publishers are only now becoming aware of many of the new problems that producing and distributing computer programs will present , and publication methods for such material must be considered experimental at this stage . |
| 8 | Many of the new firms that started were under-capitalised and so went to the wall , but the net number has increased by many hundreds of thousands since 1979 . |
| 9 | The great extension of astronomical observations that began early in the 1960s brought about a revival of interest in the classical theory of general relativity because it seemed that many of the new phenomena that were being discovered , such as quasars , pulsars , and compact X-ray sources , indicated the existence of very strong gravitational fields — fields that could be described only by general relativity . |
| 10 | My right hon. and learned Friend said that many of the new responsibilities that he announced would lie with the TECs . |
| 11 | But they 'd asked me for an epitaph not an editorial and , in any case , I 'd already got the clear impression that most of these unaccustomed mourners could recognise a tolling bell when they heard it , but that like so many of the other warnings that had been laid on them over the years by teachers , social workers and magistrates , they had simply decided that any other way of life was simply too dull , too straight , even to be contemplated . |
| 12 | And it was a perfectly well-deserved honour which was not open to the same criticism as many of the other honours that Wilson made or unhappily was persuaded to make . |
| 13 | ‘ So many of the other bands that come over are going to find it hard here because they do n't really sing and they do n't write songs in the traditional sense . ’ |
| 14 | The fire spread rapidly , consuming many of the pathetic homes that had been erected . |
| 15 | A second reason is perhaps that we have not obtained many of the much-trumpeted benefits that we were promised from the original Common Market . |
| 16 | It has been suggested by some that this approach possibly underlines many of the in-built attitudes that most need to change in local government . |
| 17 | In that way housing associations could immediately buy up many of the surplus properties that are currently available on the housing market . |
| 18 | Yet if many of the toxic chemicals that animals possess have evolved in order to aid survival , either by predation or protection , it may well be that some of these compounds could assist our own survival . |
| 19 | Many of the syntactic phenomena that occur in English are rare . |
| 20 | We have the most departmentalised approach to many of the complex issues that we seek to resolve . |
| 21 | By July 1988 , when the House of Commons Energy Committee came to reassess the figures , it concluded that ‘ many of the critical assumptions that underlay the Inquiry Inspector 's view that Sizewell B will be economic are no longer tenable ’ . |
| 22 | One of the rewarding products of placing language under the microscope is the abolition of many of the categoric certainties that often inform rhetorical discussion of the inner city . |
| 23 | As with so many of the environmental issues that face us now , every little helps . |
| 24 | The following evening we established base camp at 16,700fft and spent the next 28 days , in fairly unpredictable weather , climbing many of the graceful peaks that make up the Chong Kumdan massif . |
| 25 | So far lost to sanity were many of the Dark Elves that they readily agreed . |
| 26 | I think the other one , about the woman across there said about , should start at home with sensuality and stuff and many of the young women that I work wi , I 've I 've heard very negative experiences of sex |
| 27 | Many of the young couples that come here to see about their weddings , when asked , admit that their relationship had a pretty unspectacular beginning . |
| 28 | What happens in many of the significant films that emerge after the war is that the claims of the community and the individual are set against each other , bringing together Ealing realism and Gainsborough melodrama in a tremendously fruitful , if brief and explosive , relationship . |
| 29 | Moreover , they illustrate many of the theoretical points that have been raised in previous chapters . |
| 30 | Although research has mapped out many of the inter-active processes that cause acid rain , the details are complex and not yet fully understood . |