Example sentences of "many [prep] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One expression of this unity is the growth of great interstate sanctuaries , many of which had four-yearly festivals and games open to all Greeks . |
| 2 | Vlasov was by this time fully aware of the likely fate of his army , many of whom had grisly crimes to answer for ; however , he himself refused to take an opportunity to escape to Spain . |
| 3 | These were military followers apparently of considerable social status and influence , though probably to be distinguished from the greatest magnates of the realm , many of whom had military followings of their own , and might be expected to fight for the king both inside and outside his kingdom . |
| 4 | They were not all Russians , since they included Caucasians , Kalmucks and Ukrainians ( many of whom had Polish nationality ) . |
| 5 | Women showed themselves to be remarkably adaptable to the heavy engineering work involved and many of them displayed such interest and versatility that they were able to undertake really high class work such as turning , milling , and drilling of precision components , high grade fitting work , electric and oxy-acetylene welding , crane driving , and operation of power hammers . |
| 6 | Sympathetic members of a local education committee could often be usefully approached : many of them kept special surgery hours for such consultations . |
| 7 | Many of them had blue lights on top . |
| 8 | Too many of them had clear memories of the last war to relish another . |
| 9 | The great majority of mothers were not in paid work , hardly surprisingly since so many of them had large families of young children . |
| 10 | It was noticeable that many of them made emotive comments when addressing this question ( for example , ‘ a last resort ’ , or ‘ a place for old people to go when nobody else wants them ’ ) , a reflection possibly of their personal involvement with the residents of the home and concern for their well-being . |
| 11 | ‘ And how many of them made any effort to get along with me ? ’ she exploded . |
| 12 | Many of them recorded complicated transactions in cash and kind , often accompanied by the laconic comment ‘ massive profit ! ’ |
| 13 | Many of them needed some kind of kick up the financial backside . |
| 14 | Far too many of them lost all contact with the education system after the age of 16 and far larger numbers in England than in Germany were in dead-end jobs without any training at all . ’ |
| 15 | Indeed , given the high claims monarchs made for themselves , and the excesses of adoration with which they were treated — and by the time of Mary Queen of Scots , this had reached a very high level indeed — we may wonder that so many of them retained any sense of balance at all . |
| 16 | Tonight many of them faced long delays as buses ran between Princes Risborough and Bicester . |
| 17 | By plotting the findspots of the axes on a map , it is clear that many of them travelled long distances from where they were made , sometimes being found in areas where a different type of stone was also being quarried for axe manufacture . |
| 18 | The thought that both had finished before many of us reached 15 miles was not a cheering one . |
| 19 | If the same thing had happened after World War Two , when many of us had six years of war , we would all have crept under the table and wept . |