Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Wright 's experience underscores many companies ' concerns about empowerment , which is rapidly becoming a buzz-word in enlightened management circles . |
| 2 | To say an advertisement has an advertising function begs many questions . |
| 3 | The building represents many construction periods from Romanesque to late Gothic . |
| 4 | A closer look revealed many discrepancies , the most serious being that the selection procedures had obscured certain factors of the disease itself , and its progress . |
| 5 | The computer offers many possibilities to the geographer who does not aspire to the world model . |
| 6 | The bromodeoxyuridine technique has many advantages over this technique as it is complete in 3–4 days compared with 14 days for tritiated thymidine and furthermore the reaction is found in the plane of the tissue section facilitating rapid cell counting . |
| 7 | The American New Critics and I.A. Richards before them were as anxious as the Formalists to sever literature from its historical and biographical context , and their preoccupation with form and technique has many points of analogy with that of their Formalist counterparts . |
| 8 | The sentence disappointed many people whose prejudice had wanted him hanged , including those pamphleteers who had established his guilt long before any trial . |
| 9 | His story has many inconsistencies . |
| 10 | But his Privatisation Express has many features that are lurchingly familiar to the average London commuter . |
| 11 | THE timeless fascination of Sophocles 's Antigone has many explanations , not least in its ability to present in dramatic form many of the most delicate , painful questions concerning government and politics , and with the uncertain ability of human beings to co-exist in society . |
| 12 | However , Ramsay and some of his closest associates still met and its activities were in fact to provide the government with the excuse to intern many fascists without trial in 1940 . |
| 13 | Known for its high-spirited festivals and the local weaving trade , this lively resort has many restaurants and street stalls . |
| 14 | The University has many staff whose work of outstanding international merit in many diverse fields has brought it great acclaim . |
| 15 | Genealogical studies The John Rylands Library of Manchester University has many collections . |
| 16 | I hope that I will have an opportunity to meet many students in the forthcoming series of meetings being held through the regional actuarial societies . |
| 17 | Although during the years I worked there I had the opportunity to meet many people , mainly the farmers who were our principal customers , I can honestly say that my job was the most boring and monotonous I could possibly have had . |
| 18 | To satisfy the demands of the local authority 's building inspector , who was not happy with this lack of fire compartmentation in a single-staircase building incorporating many levels , these sliding doors were tensioned against counterweights so that in the event of a fire , fusible links in the cables restraining the counterweights would melt , causing the weights to drop and drawing the doors closed . |
| 19 | The Muslim faith has many similarities to that of the fundamentalist Free Presbyterian Church whose last stronghold is on the Isle of Lewis . |
| 20 | They flung each other off and stared for an instant , each of them aware that he was known , each conscious that this recognition made many things plain . |
| 21 | What can the orthodox practitioner do if a patient tells him that she has never been well since her husband died some ten years ago ( grief reaction ) or since the dreadful fright she experienced when she had a car crash many years ago ? |
| 22 | The sleeve sensor recordings of basal UOS pressure in the present study produced many hours of UOS pressure recording and allowed us to undertake a searching and carefully controlled evaluation of the possibility that UOS hypotonia is related to any particular symptom pattern in children . |
| 23 | This on the surface may not seem to be hostile to religion , but it causes severe re-interpretation encouraging many people to regard religion as little more than a culturally derived dressing-up game . |
| 24 | Project appraisal involves many calculations which must be carried out a number of times to produce a proper sensitivity analysis . |
| 25 | You see , old Shallot has many enemies and memories die hard . |
| 26 | A person bereft by permanent loss or separation feels this range of emotion multiplied many times . |
| 27 | Fear has many eyes , and can see things underground . |
| 28 | The Board of Inland Revenue has many problems wholly unrelated to tax law . |
| 29 | It has been my pleasure to meet many members at various functions and both Mary and I look forward to meeting many more of you during the coming year . |
| 30 | The Review proposed many changes to particular aspects of standard procedure which will speed up and streamline that procedure . |