Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] for many " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | For more than an hour , rockets exploded across the sky — an extravaganza that for many Peking residents recalled not so much the glory of the revolution as the tracer bullets and machine-gun fire of early June . |
2 | There is also general recognition that for many years prisons have failed to meet these objectives . |
3 | My best memory when I was at Primary School was that I was a member of a Gymnastics club and for many weeks we rehearsed our routine to do in front of the school and parents . |
4 | Goals espoused by WHO/HFA may have numbed our consciousness but for many health workers in the Philippines , despite the change in government , a health initiative becomes the front line in a struggle some do not survive . |
5 | To take but one of many examples , there is a single code to represent all the variations on the Charnley hip replacement procedure — quite adequate for most statistical purposes but falling short of the detail required for audit and for many of the uses to which medical records are put . |
6 | ‘ Pedestrians will be able to walk and shop in this part of the town in greater comfort and safety than for many years , ’ he said . |
7 | He had a strange sensation that for many minutes he had been holding his breath , though he could n't of course have been doing that . |
8 | Long after he left to become a flight engineer it continued to light them through the war and for many years after . |
9 | This reticence is all the more striking when contrasted with the plethora of Second World War movies made both during the war and for many years afterwards . |
10 | Sponsorship has been kind to Penny and her team but for many the RAC Rally is run on savings … take Richard Roberts … his budget is around four thousand pounds … to save money he and co driver Paul camp out on route … |
11 | Jim Magilton was made man of the match but for many United fans new keeper Phil Whitehead was the real hero . |
12 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
13 | I recall feeling an empty numbness on that day and for many months after . |
14 | Coarse fishing which is done in fresh water and for many types of fish . |
15 | Lord Stanley Clinton-Davis is a former European Commissioner and for many years he was in the House . |
16 | That night and for many nights afterwards he took the lighter to bed with him , and lay there , thinking of Kate and feeling the metal growing warm in his hand , until he fell asleep . |
17 | Directly directly B T started erm saying well thirty thousand employees will go this year under B T ninety-two scheme i.e. they will go at fifty , they will draw their pension at fifty , which is n't the trust deed and for many years Inland Revenue point blank refused to let anybody draw a pension below sixty . |
18 | Poorly appreciated during his life and for many years after his death , this period of his work was reassessed by a touring exhibition sponsored by the Hayward Gallery in 1981 , but a substantial group of his later canvases has never been shown in the context of his whole development . |
19 | Typical is S. Botolph 's Church , Boston , in Lincolnshire , called colloquially the ‘ Boston Stump ’ because its top storey was added so much later than the rest of the church and for many years the tower had a decapitated appearance ( 476 ) . |
20 | There seems at present , however , a better prospect of completing the line than for many years . |
21 | Enjoying better health than for many years , he was able to become an active preacher . |
22 | This influential paper proceeded from an explanation that for many processes above the level of competence , the rate of movement of material can be expressed as a power function of some stress , to demonstrate that the largest portion of sediment transported by rivers is carried by flows which occur on average once or twice each year , and that transport of sand and dust by wind follows the same laws . |
23 | Whatever the reason for the sharing of the horse , the two men kept their transaction-secret and for many months Kilpatrick was thought to be still the sole owner . |
24 | But with further tuition in the UK they can move on to full doctor status and for many students the chance to experience life in another country more than makes up for the extra years of study . |
25 | The question may then arise in the future as to what to do for those potential sufferers who are identified in this way and the answer is the same as for those currently identified through the MMPI and for many families in whom there is other genetically inherited disease : specifically educate to Protect . |
26 | Secondly , I urge him to make the best possible speed in this matter because for many of us it represents the most dreadful stain on our criminal justice system . |
27 | Despite the social and economic restrictions experienced by carers , there is no doubt that for many people the emotional rewards of caring far outweigh the disadvantages . |
28 | There can be no doubt that for many women fear of loss is built into us by the way we 've been reared . |
29 | This is not to underestimate the possibility that for many of these staff this work is a consciously chosen alternative to teaching in primary or secondary schools . |
30 | This has been recognised by the Panel and for many of the purposes of the Code and SARs , " control " is deemed to be the holding of an aggregate of 30 per cent or more of the voting rights of a company . |