Example sentences of "[prep] so many [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , in fact , impossible for management to have a direct , personal feeling and knowledge about so many business environments . |
| 2 | Like dissolves , slow motion can be useful for scenes of sexual love or simply for lovers ' meetings — a usage now long derided , though , and so no longer even parodied , after its long descent through so many TV commercials . |
| 3 | For so many animal fallacies , it is the rare event that becomes established as the ‘ norm ’ in popular animal lore , and usually — as in this case — with the animal motives involved luridly exaggerated or distorted . |
| 4 | They called for so many generator , we had double of them . |
| 5 | So many dollars paid to John Russell for so many stage horses . |
| 6 | In view of the number of working and pleasure horses in the kingdom , when the phrase ‘ horsepower ’ meant literally just that , and the concentration of dairy cows around and even within the metropolis , and also the growing number of pets in middle-class households , it is strange that the demands of so many animal owners , some wealthy or even extremely rich , had not led to the development of a proper profession competent to deal with animal diseases , just as the professions of physician , surgeon and apothecary had burgeoned to meet public demand at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries . |
| 7 | Minton , though he rendered them with a Chinese delicacy , despaired at the sight of so many fir trees and did less sketching than was usual on his trips abroad . |
| 8 | MS-DOS 7 will have full 32-bit internals but no 32-bit programming interface , InformationWeek reports , because , Microsoft says , developers have taken advantage of so many 16-bit MS-DOS features that moving to a 32-bit programming interface would be virtually impossible . |
| 9 | MS-DOS 7 will have full 32-bit internals but no 32-bit programming interface , InformationWeek reports , because , Microsoft says , developers have taken advantage of so many 16-bit MS-DOS features that moving to a 32-bit programming interface would be virtually impossible . |
| 10 | We 'd worked together on a BBC play called Shiftwork and he had a slightly wry , sullen world-weariness about him which reminded me of so many downtrodden husbands . |
| 11 | Moreover , whereas America has a substantial history of the employment of professionals trained for their role ( most states lay down a minimum requirement of so many credit hours in education and library science at undergraduate and postgraduate levels ) , by far the majority of secondary school libraries in Britain are run in a few supposedly " free " periods during a week , by classroom teachers with little or no librarianship training . |
| 12 | In April 1961 , when making recordings on the Carlisle-Edinburgh ‘ Waverley ’ route that has made a niche in the hearts of so many railway enthusiasts , Peter Handford had spent the day on Whitrope summit , but had eventually abandoned attempts at recording because of the unfavourable direction of the wind . |
| 13 | Herreweghe ( Harmonia Mundi ) takes a broadly naturalistic view , allowing the text to unfold without resorting to the jet-propulsion treatment of so many Baroque choral recordings nowadays . |
| 14 | If young people posed no threat in terms of allegiance , there would have been little need of so many reform programmes . |
| 15 | In Pakistan : ‘ The wholesale exemption of EPZ enterprises from the provisions of so many labour laws leaves many issues to the mercy of the individual contract of employment ’ ( p.709 ) , while in the Philippines : ‘ The Bataan administrator said that some EPZ employees were paying 75 per cent of the minimum wage for six months , then dismissing the workers and hiring others at the 75 per cent rate ’ ( p.711 ) . |
| 16 | From the granite-grey clubhouse of the Royal & Ancient ( R&A ) its secretary , Michael Bonallack , enjoys a sweeping view down the 18th fairway of the Old Course , with the green of the Road Hole , the scene of so many golfing triumphs and disasters , beyond . |
| 17 | In some of the more intensively managed ‘ confinement ’ operations , animals are crowded in pens and cages stacked up like so many shipping crates … . |
| 18 | Her father , like so many country parsons of his day , had interested himself , among other homely pursuits , in keeping chickens . |
| 19 | He respects the oral tradition , and earns her respect in consequence : ‘ Not for Moorcock the painful , infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets ; his is the grand , messy flux itself … ’ |
| 20 | The modern car ferry was like a nautical greenhouse with the sun streaming in the south-facing picture windows — passengers ' heads wilting with heat and motion like so many tomato plants . |
| 21 | The venture that did most damage to Jinky 's bank balance was the ‘ Double J Bar ’ in Hamilton , a pub designed to cash in on his name , but destined like so many footballer 's pubs to become a financial nightmare . |
| 22 | St Petrock 's , like so many South Coast resorts , was roughly divided into two classes — invalids , and the people who looked after them . |
| 23 | Like so many baby mammals , young elephants spend a great deal of their time playing . |
| 24 | Every geranium , every chicken , every snoozing cat was in its place , like so many movie extras . |
| 25 | Like so many peasant foods , the essence of pasta is its simplicity . |
| 26 | By the time she wound the scarlet sash around her waist once more , miniaturized digital weapons hooded her fingers like so many baroque thimbles . |
| 27 | Like so many cash crops , sugar is not a genuinely useful product — it has no nutritional value and is of no benefit in times of hardship . |
| 28 | This brings us to rule five : only ever praise somebody ( a ) in order to condemn someone else ( ‘ Danny Baker is genuinely witty and not childish like so many Radio 1 ‘ personalities ' ’ ) or ( b ) if they have just been sacked ( ‘ I found the previous presenters stylish , informed and witty , creating just the right atmosphere . |
| 29 | Unlike so many hotel kitchens , which are completely enclosed , La Rive 's has the unusual feature of being surrounded by windows , with a door on to a magnificent herb garden , where guests can only go at the invitation of the chef . |
| 30 | These doctors , unlike so many preregistration house officers , were not prepared to be walked over , and a campaign of industrial action — including the threat that future students might boycott the jobs at Southmead — led quickly to remedial action . |