Example sentences of "many [prep] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is particularly important to check about vaccinations because many of them contain live virus . |
| 2 | Until a few years ago most wood dyes tended to fade in strong sunlight , but now many of them contain transparent iron oxides , which do not fade and can be used on interior and exterior woodwork . |
| 3 | ‘ Cities of the Immortals ’ will be set up by California-based company called the Heaven on Earth Corporation , many of them providing low-cost housing for the Third World . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However , many of them show random variations in brightness lasting only a few months or , on occasion , days . |
| 7 | Many of them make regular trips to the filmset where it was all put together , at Portmeirion in Wales . |
| 8 | Sympathetic members of a local education committee could often be usefully approached : many of them kept special surgery hours for such consultations . |
| 9 | Many of them had blue lights on top . |
| 10 | Too many of them had clear memories of the last war to relish another . |
| 11 | The great majority of mothers were not in paid work , hardly surprisingly since so many of them had large families of young children . |
| 12 | Members benefited from both the restricted entry and competition controls , allowing many of them to earn oligopolistic profits . |
| 13 | A series of imposing buttresses characterise this part of the crag , many of them sporting ominous roofs , or at least overhangs , in the vicinity of mid-height . |
| 14 | It was that sort of occasion 500 women , many of them wearing posh hats and even posher outfits that they 'd bought for weddings and were longing for a chance to wear again . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ And how many of them made any effort to get along with me ? ’ she exploded . |
| 17 | Many of them face major cuts to balance at the end of the year and one of them has dangerously low nursing levels . |
| 18 | Whilst they can probably get away with spot colour separations , and indeed many of them produce excellent spot separated material , the world now seems to expect that process colour separation will follow just as easily . |
| 19 | Many of them recorded complicated transactions in cash and kind , often accompanied by the laconic comment ‘ massive profit ! ’ |
| 20 | They lived the lives of the folk among whom they worked ; and this may have helped many of them to make real contact with their parishioners . |
| 21 | Most of the studies on this topic use only birth weight in the analysis and many of them study small samples of very low birthweight children . |
| 22 | There are a number of reasons for this , many of them constituting significant areas of debate within social science methodology . |
| 23 | It had been calculated that there were some six and a half thousand living American Oxonians , many of them leading distinguished careers as a result of their education . |
| 24 | Many of them needed some kind of kick up the financial backside . |
| 25 | How many of them have wild-type eyes ( black ) and how many have pearl eyes ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Many of them have bizarre adaptations , as parasites , or as permanent ‘ guests ’ within particular species of coral or sponge , which it would be impossible to infer from fossil remains . |
| 28 | There are plenty of bars and cafes , many of them featuring live music , or at the opposite end of the scale operetta ! |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |