Example sentences of "[pron] be many [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been told I was many things in my life , but too hasty … |
| 2 | You are many people for Otto ! ’ |
| 3 | We know we 're many steps down the social scale from the Santis family . |
| 4 | There are many choices of arrangement and treatment available to a monographer . |
| 5 | There are many choices of frame that might fit in with this theme . |
| 6 | It is a time when there are many fatalities on the roads as the inexperienced young try to dash across in the face of oncoming traffic . |
| 7 | And yesterday Coun ThorneWallis said : ‘ There are many holes in the fencing and it could be dangerous for children playing . ’ |
| 8 | There are many critics of psychoanalysis . |
| 9 | There are many stages of a personal injury case that can not be standardised . |
| 10 | There are many strands to this secret tradition , and one of the most direct and striking is that of witchcraft . |
| 11 | Our work so far has obviously only been of a preliminary nature , but even so it is clear that there are many strands in the concept of participation and public involvement in decision-making related to novel energy systems . |
| 12 | And indeed , there are many lineages in nature that seem to show this steady improvement in adaptation ; modern horses are more beautifully fitted to running on the open plain than ancient ones ; modern monkeys more agile than their predecessors . |
| 13 | Others believe it to have a strong cultural component ; and point out that there are many cultures in which it is not apparent , sexual interest and behaviour increasing continuously in the pre-adolescent years . |
| 14 | There are many themes to the novel but I think the main ones are : ‘ What is a gentleman ? ’ and ‘ How do you find contentment ? ’ . |
| 15 | But we suppose that there are many propositions about the past whose truth is for us evidence-transcendent . |
| 16 | There are many forms of depression and a connection between abnormal body clocks and three types of depression have been suspected : rapidly cycling manic-depression , some forms of endogenous depression and seasonal affective disorder . |
| 17 | Thus , there are many forms of communication that horses use , from body language to empathy . |
| 18 | Although there are many forms of accommodation ‘ tied ’ to employment , the agricultural tied cottage is of prime interest ( Shelter 1974 ; Schifferes 1980 ) . |
| 19 | There are many forms of emission charges which may be used to provide economic incentives to polluters either to reduce or cease their pollution , including sales taxes on fuels or fuel ingredients : for example , Norway introduced fuel taxes in 1971 whereby a basic tax is levied on each unit of oil , together with an additional charge which increases for each 0.5 per cent of its sulphur content . |
| 20 | While pure public goods are hard to find , there are many goods with a considerable public goods element : they yield external benefits from which it is costly to exclude people and are , to a degree , non-rivalrous in consumption . |
| 21 | ‘ Jesus Christ , ’ he said , as if he was an experienced soldier talking to a rather dumb general , ‘ there are many impostors in Thy world and many of Us have failed to Grasp the … er … |
| 22 | There are many areas of everyday life where we may need to write for information , eg when booking a holiday . |
| 23 | There are many areas of sexual activity where the Bible is silent ; it neither condones or condemns them . |
| 24 | While there are many areas of common ground between Althusser and Habermas , both are very different writers in style and tradition and they do not refer to each other 's work . |
| 25 | According to & name , there are many areas of aviation technology , ranging from aero-engines to advanced avionic systems , in which Britain is a world leader . |
| 26 | Even today there are many areas of constitutional law regulated not by statute but by the common law as expounded by our judges . |
| 27 | Nonetheless as Moseley ( 1980 ) has pointed out , there are many areas of overlap between urban and rural deprivation , particularly in the inner urban and outer rural areas , as Figure 6.2 shows . |
| 28 | erm There are many areas of the British Isles which are , are liable to flooding and vulnerable to floods . |
| 29 | There are many areas within the personnel function where a micro such as an Apple will be seen to have a relevance . |
| 30 | There are many generations of qualified town planners who would have failed their examinations had they suggested such a thing . |