Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] [prep] many " in BNC.

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1 The Birmingham School approach has since been applied to many different discourse types : for example , medical consultations ( Coulthard and Montgomery 1981b ) and TV quiz shows ( Berry 1981 ) .
2 The control of consumption theory was developed in the 1950s by a French demographer , Sully Ledermann and has since been adopted by many neo-prohibitionists , notably in Scandinavia .
3 It has since been used on many small computers as a means of implementing a rich instruction set at a reasonable price .
4 It is unlikely that any report in the UK would be so brutally honest , but it accurately describes our situation , except that the inadequate nature of our provision for many students has long been recognised by many educators , and only becomes important to others through economic necessity .
5 An underlying hormonal element has long been suspected in many cases of malignant melanoma .
6 However , recent developments suggest that this ‘ Chinese wall ’ will be breached , and this suspicion has long been voiced by many poorer people .
7 The subject of art has for too long been considered by many teachers as a frill , — there it is on the time-table , a compulsory subject ; some schools give it a period a week , some a double period , and some even more .
8 What 's more , she was on top of the Poll , and had obviously been supported by many men members .
9 Subscriptions fell steadily and expenditure fell even more sharply with the reduction of salaries and the suspension of propaganda , so that most local parties ended the war with a substantial profit ; but this concealed a real weakness , for expenditure could be revived by a single decision , while income could only be revived by many years of patient work .
10 This right of access to the Court has not been exercised by many third States , but could failure to deposit a non-party declaration with the Registrar of the Court be taken as non-acceptance of the right so that it could no longer be claimed ?
11 If it has a Solex carb then this is probably worn out as they have not been fitted for many years .
12 Up-to-date valuations of such properties had not been undertaken for many years previously , partly because of business people 's complaints that any revaluations of commercial properties could inevitably lead to an increase in their total tax bill .
13 And because Barlaston had ceased to function as a house in the 1930s , and had not been modernized for many years before that , it was in a remarkably unaltered state and thus an important archaeological document .
14 Social perceptions of what is or is not obscene or indecent may change but the legislation may remain to trap the unwary in a much more liberal climate ; and just because the legislation has not been used in many years that does not mean it will not be applied again .
15 There was a particularly high demand for the dental and ophthalmic services which had not been included in many of the pre-war insurance schemes .
16 The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) .
17 Momentarily she digested the horrible implication , that by nineteen-eighty the work on Titron had reached a stage where an enlarged adult human foetus had presumably already been tested against many diseases — and was a norm .
18 The main economic and social themes which have already been considered in many of the chapters of this book reappear as the dominant themes in any discussion on housing policy .
19 Competitive tendering ( see also Chapter 3 , page 47 ) has already been introduced for many ancillary services ( eg cleaning , catering ) and has reduced costs , although some health authorities have found that quality of service has also suffered .
20 Their effects may not be noticed for many years .
21 But then I thought this might not be understood by many people , and also , by the time it got to the Augean Bulls and the Birds of Stymphalus , it would be a little recondite for people like Terry Coleman . ’
22 The same can not be said for many thousands of Palestinian houses in what is now Israel .
23 The rent charged should be enough to cover mortgage , rates , repairs and agents ' fees as well as tax but even this modest target may not be reached in many places without risk of taking in the wrong kind of tenant .
24 An almost universal feature of determination is that it involves subtle chemical changes , almost certainly turning on or off genes , and the overt result may not be seen for many hours .
25 It can not be given to many scientists to be outstanding as experimenter , technical innovator and teacher ; Kuypers was unquestionably all of these .
26 And , if we do , there are no external reasons why the average lifespan of all human beings should not be extended to many hundreds of years .
27 Such questions can not be answered without many more secondary studies .
28 But , besides the fact that the details of his method can not be read into many of the advances made in the sciences , his promise of certainty has come to seem inappropriate .
29 Given its position in the struggle and the structures of a capitalist formation , a class may not be left with many options .
30 But undoubtedly he was right on the mark when he wrote in his essay on Thomas Parnell some words which might aptly be applied to many writers at present being collected :
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