Example sentences of "many were [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many were affected like the young German student , highly religious and torn with doubts about the morality of the war , who wrote home shortly before being killed at Verdun on June 1st : |
| 2 | From the various addresses given on the trade cards of coffin-makers it appears that many were sited off the high streets , yet not so far away as to be inaccessible to their clients . |
| 3 | Great houses did not of course cease to be built ; on the contrary , almost as many were erected in the nineteenth century as a whole as in the three centuries that preceded it put together . |
| 4 | Many were employed in the wool-spinning mills at Stornoway , others worked at handlooms in their own homes producing the tweed for which the island is noted . |
| 5 | When headmen 's posts became vacant , many were sold by the chief headmen to the highest bidder . |
| 6 | Some are new to the UK , many were produced by the legendary John McClure , all have been digitally remastered . |
| 7 | Though many were crumbling after the Second World War many owners are now putting them in good order . ’ |