Example sentences of "[verb] so many [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trade in all his restaurants had been slack over the past couple of weeks , and he was glad to see so many lunchtime diners . |
| 2 | It is good to see so many cheese and Wensleydale lovers quick to defend the same . |
| 3 | Gold eagles were struck to save handling so many dollar pieces , and bronze was needed to provide small change . |
| 4 | They look super in the portfolio : far better than all those grotty 10 cm doubles that sold so many army surplus sleeping bags . |
| 5 | It 's hunger that drives so many ballet students there , not an innate artistic urge . |
| 6 | How could he have completed so many plays , as well as formulating the beer which bears his name and opening so many tea rooms ? |
| 7 | Policing needs to be locally based why do you need so many force headquarters ? ’ |
| 8 | I think that is why it has so many cinema fans and why the best cinema creators in Spain come from there . |
| 9 | The dragonfly has so many ommatidia that it can see as well as some vertebrates . |
| 10 | A LITTLE boy is becoming withdrawn because he has so many ear infections he finds it difficult to hear , but his life could be revolutionised by one simple operation . |
| 11 | So much for the way in which our furry fauna have captivated so many kite flyers ; now to the practical aspects of how to take the skydiver up to a safe release height . |
| 12 | And once they had deluded themselves that the blacks were content , the whites were quite unable to recognise , let alone tackle , the real grievances that caused so many peasant farmers to side with the ‘ boys in the bush ’ . |
| 13 | I REMEMBER realizing why we watch so many nature programmes . |
| 14 | The condemnation of the figures that the hon. Gentleman has read out is that in those boroughs we need never have had so many liability orders or so many people taken to the courts or threatened with prison if they had not been misled by Labour Members of Parliament and councillors into running up enormous debts . |
| 15 | ‘ I can not believe it , I have already had so many job offers as a result of taking part in . |
| 16 | That is why we have had so many research studies in this area , and why we have such a wide variety of interesting cases of both successful and less successful projects which are extremely valuable starting points for analysis . |
| 17 | I looked over towards the Pasanggrahan Hotel , and the balcony from which we had longingly watched so many prahus which we could not sail aboard . |
| 18 | We 've got so many core objectives we 've got like A one and it 's something like |
| 19 | You know that 's really why why we 've got so many team workers is n't it ? |
| 20 | And the Bank of England 's ease in selling so many gilt stocks early yesterday is a reminder of just how great the budget deficit remains and how much more public borrowing must follow — taking cash that might otherwise have bought shares . |
| 21 | It takes so many man hours . |
| 22 | Clearly , no one explanation could cover why we eat cows but not cats ; why big game hunting is the traditional pursuit of the wealthy ; why furs are going out of fashion ; why sexual slang employs so many animal and eating metaphors ; why customary cannibalism is seldom if ever authenticated ; why we worry so much more about high fat meats than about eating cheese ; why so many religious sects espouse vegetarianism ; why burger bars have been redecorating with pastel colours ; why the Flintstones barbecue dinosaur steaks ; why we eat beef rather than cow ; why businessmen might eat steak tartare at a negotiating lunch ; and why meat is said to give men aggression , strength , or heterosexual virility . |
| 23 | They 're only allocating so many committee men and all that . |
| 24 | ‘ It was disruptive , ’ she admits , ‘ because we kept having so many phone calls which meant that the staff got involved , together with the photocopying and sending out documents . |
| 25 | Then the leading comrade makes a long speech ( with pauses for interpretation ) full of statistics about how before liberation the commune used to only produce so many jin per mu ( jin being a measure of weight/capacity , and mu being a measure of land ) and how the commune now produces about 15 times that amount . |
| 26 | The mechanisms of the upper atmosphere and the deep sea that cause it to spoil so many Larin Christmas times are still unknown ; but there is beguiling evidence that whenever El Nin-o appears in the Pacific , so the monsoon rains in India are perilously sparse , the winters in the continental USA are unusually harsh , and there is a further episode of drought in that wretched quarter of Africa known as the Sahel . |
| 27 | George E. Lodge whose excellent paintings have illustrated so many bird books , visited Gilbert Blaine at Cairnmore during September and October of the mid-193Os on three occasions . |
| 28 | Charles remembered from working on The Strutters with him that George had always had an approximate approach to the text , relying , as did so many television actors , on a sort of paraphrase of the speeches which homed in on the right cue . |
| 29 | Why do so many cat breeds come from the East ? |
| 30 | Mum gets frightened on these occasions too ; she feels sorry for me ; neither of us understands quite why I have to have so many blood tests . |