Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] many " in BNC.

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1 The Commission points out that it is often difficult to attribute responsibility , especially when damage is the cumulative result of activities undertaken by many parties .
2 Opening a Trust account seems to be the route favoured by many hoteliers .
3 Four of Africa 's most talented peoples — the Ibo , the Bamilike , the waChagga and the Bugunda — have all had their innovative talents circumscribed for many years .
4 The freedom to experiment , to organise classrooms in a way which supported and encouraged children 's learning , and which incidentally ( though not haphazardly ) covered the key areas of the curriculum led to many innovations .
5 The highly transient nature of the casual labour force in hotels and catering , and the low attachment to work of many casuals — itself often related to the fact that their jobs are very much part-time — mean that the unions ' task will scarcely be an easy one .
6 In the preface to his Hortus Britanno-Americanus ( written in 1749 but not published until 1763 ) Mark Catesby [ q.v. ] , the pioneer naturalist of the south-eastern states of America , said that ‘ Mr. Gray at Fulham has for many years made it his business to raise and cultivate the plants of America ( from whence he has annually fresh supplies ) in order to furnish the curious with what they want …
7 Even the smallest of sole practitioners can benefit from DIY CPE by combining with other professionals , perhaps via the discussion groups organised by many district societies .
8 Classifications of institutions appear in many places .
9 The rule of course has in many senses a more restricted application than nuisance ; there must be an accumulation , and it must be of a substance likely to cause injury if it escapes , neither of which is essential to liability in nuisance .
10 Inside the plant , levels of radiation in the abandoned reactor building rose to many times the lethal level .
11 Though Michael Herr has in many ways done well out of Vietnam , he says : ‘ I think I paid a lot of dues ; Neil Sheehan [ author of A Bright Shining Light ] paid a lot of dues ; Don McCullin paid a lot of dues ; Larry Burrows paid all his dues .
12 As the Potato Marketing Board has for many years worked successfully for the benefit of processors , consumers and producers , does he agree that any proposals to scrap the PMB should be strongly resisted ?
13 The population has now become much more dispersed , with birds occurring on many of the larger lakes , reservoirs and areas of gravel pits in the county .
14 What the programmer wants in many cases is for the result of the operation to replace one of the operands .
15 The work of other researchers has in many different ways helped to shape our work , to influence what we have asked and to make us more sensitive to what we have heard .
16 The exclusion of women from the paid labour force became in many areas an important part of the development of both working-class ‘ respectability ’ and of notions of working-class manhood .
17 The Two Nudes represents in many ways the culmination of the ‘ Iberian ’ phase in Picasso 's art .
18 Chlorine was used at the same time , and one may suppose that confusion arose in many minds about their separate effects .
19 It contains a huge amount of such data including amongst many other surveys and statistics , the 1981 National Census , 500 maps , 22,000 photographs , 1,500 items of text in the form of essays and published articles and , on side two of the disc , about an hour of video recording some of the events of 1986 .
20 The invention of Ruritania led to many descendants , all declaring their ancestry in the ‘ a ’ suffix , from Buchan 's Evallonia and George Birmingham 's Lystra to countries invented for young readers like Frances Hodgson Burnett 's Samavia , Noel Streatfeild 's Livia , Serraillier 's Silvania , Adnan Alington 's Rumelia and Harnet Graham 's Zoraya .
21 And how popular will share sales now be in the wake of the stock market collapse and the losses sustained by many B P investors ?
22 A fair point , maybe , but one that smacks of the kind of social-comment spuriousness spouted by many fashion editors who ought to know better .
23 Thirteen years later , interest has waned in a killer dismissed by many as the least interesting of the famous assassins .
24 Amenorrhoea develops in many patients before substantial weight loss has occurred and age-inappropriate gonadotropin secretion patterns are present in some patients who are weight recovered .
25 With a workforce of 91,802 , 10,562 outlets serving meals to the value of £763.8 million a year and a turnover of £1,580,000 , opportunities ranged across many areas , including , craft , location management , purchasing , marketing , sales , personnel , and design and planning and were available both in the UK and overseas .
26 As distinct from the four week experience of general practice which all of our final year students receive ( with a final objective structured clinical examination ( OSCE ) in general practice ) this university department of general practice has over many years provided generic clinical teaching for the department of medicine .
27 These types are intended to provide a structured and secure environment for data addressed by many different programs .
28 This book contains words collected from many sources , ranging from the Dictionarium Rusticum ( 1681 ) to the Cyclopaedia of Agriculture ( 1863 ) , and runs to some 220 pages .
29 Although delegation occurs in many ways we are concerned here with transfers to specific individuals .
30 The heads of various departments , foremen and other key workers were recruited from just across the county boundary in Sheffield and south Yorkshire ; the rest of the labour force came from many parts of Britain and Ireland .
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