Example sentences of "many [prep] [pers pn] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Many of them resent this country 's system of the 25 year lease , and would favour a more flexible approach — such as the break options that are widely available in the US and France but less common here . |
| 3 | ‘ And how many of them made any effort to get along with me ? ’ she exploded . |
| 4 | Many of them needed some kind of kick up the financial backside . |
| 5 | Also many of them have little inclination to cook much for themselves when they usually have to eat alone , and they prefer to use the smallest possible number of cooking utensils , pans and dishes which have to be washed up afterwards . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But I 'm told on this day , May thirteenth , thirty seven years ago , and that should bring back a lot of memories for many of you , the Three-Ninetieth flew its hundred and fifth combat mission from this station and many of you remember that day . |
| 9 | As Jenny Randles says in Abduction ( according to Mr Marr , the only really reliable guide to the spacenapping phenomenon ) , ‘ Of course I am making no assumptions about what it means to have been abducted [ by aliens ] , but if some researchers are correct many of you reading this book might have undergone an abduction experience without consciously realizing it . ’ |
| 10 | Many of us ignore these things . |
| 11 | Many of us remember that experience from the days of the Labour Government , many of whose Ministers are now in another place . |
| 12 | I do not speak of the substance of the matter because so many of us have some doubts about the substance of it and we shall come to that later , but erm it does seem to me that er we had to get rid of erm sections two , two A and three of the Police Act nineteen sixty four as amended and that clearly doing so here and erm er er I I think that this is an improvement as a result on the laws that er present appears on the Statute Book . |
| 13 | The response to this ad has illustrated what many of us suspect these days : there is in our industry a great wealth of under-utilised talent and experience which , far from regarding itself as unemployed and job hunting , is highly entrepreneurial and self-reliant . |
| 14 | Many of us place more value on action , decisiveness and ‘ pulling ourselves together ’ than we do on contemplation and reflection in solitude . |