Example sentences of "[verb] that many [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 By praying that many children from the local area will be drawn to the Holiday Club and the Church , with their families , and ultimately to faith in Jesus .
2 She had forgotten that many castles in Spain were now official hotels .
3 One symptomatic phenomenon was revealed in my own research in Leicester for an Open University television programme , when I found that many teachers of English were unwilling to come to terms with the interest and creative potential of Asian students in English language , literature and drama .
4 From a local survey they found that many girls of this age were very frightened in labour , which made it worse , and that they had little idea about coping with a tiny baby .
5 They may consider that many forms of non-consensual sexual intercourse are not so grave as to be labelled rape .
6 I must admit I , I really do n't agree with that , I mean I find that many women who have had erm children actually their figure has improved after the children , they look a great deal better and I certainly do n't think that many women in Scotland looked vast after they 've had children , I totally disagree with that .
7 To do this , accepting that many visitors from across the world will probably attend the next World Cup , tempted also by the extraordinarily favourable rates of exchange and despite the problems which may still exist in the country , SARFU has to ensure that the majority of South Africans will have a chance to attend the games if rugby is to lose its elitist ‘ white ’ connotations .
8 In Britain , Owen and Mivart argued that many cases of evolution consisted of parallel lines of development within the same group , all driven in the same direction as though by an internally programmed force .
9 First , it allows that many kinds of circumstances can contribute to the course of events , and secondly it enables us to understand how these may combine to bring about dramatic and unexpected social changes which Althusser calls ‘ ruptures ’ .
10 ( 4 ) It happens that many systems of equations , particularly those of some physical relevance , have simple behaviour for extreme values of a parameter .
11 Thus he says that many varieties of domesticated species , fancy pigeon breeds for example , are monstrous not adaptive ; they can only be maintained by artificial feeding and breeding , including selective breeding ; they are quite unlike wild , natural and adaptive varieties and even more unlike wild species .
12 Will he confirm that many aspects of social security systems in other countries compare unfavourably with ours ?
13 In her case it was accepted that many women in their 20s are involved in child birth and looking after children with the consequences that they are out of the employment market .
14 As in previous reports , WHO noted that many cases of AIDS went unreported , particularly in Africa , and that the actual number of sufferers was much higher .
15 It may be argued that many forms of ‘ fringe medicine ’ are not dependent upon any belief in any religion or ‘ god ’ .
16 The companies successfully argued that many elements of the Macintosh screen , which uses movable symbols rather than typed commands , were not original or that they had been invented by Xerox Corporation or International Business Machines .
17 In primitive societies with small , self-sufficient units there was no differentiation between centre and periphery , and it could be argued that many peasants in Russia remained at this level of perception during NEP .
18 It can be seen that many issues on the administrative side affect the social services .
19 Another insinuated that on one had ever seen that many patients with Munchausen 's syndrome let alone tested them .
20 The context of speech-making and the techniques and conventions that have been developed ensure that many sides of a case are put at the same time as maintaining the proprieties due to different statuses .
21 But but in in just the little few words you used then , I would have thought that many parents in this church would react positively .
22 I can not believe that many members of the public believe that that is justice , or that it conveys the right message to those who , tonight , will steal a car and race it in the path of some other innocent victim .
23 Research also shows that many youngsters in residential care have experienced difficulties with schooling ; for example , over half of all boys in residential care have stayed down a class at least once .
24 For this reason , amongst others , it may be anticipated that many parents of children who truant will , at the end of the day , continue to be dealt with in punitive fashion .
25 Nichols and Armstrong claimed that many workers in that factory experienced a high level of alienation from their work .
26 It seems unlikely that an intrauterine device would suppress the symptoms of endometriosis , and we suspect that many women with a device who develop the clinical features of endometriosis ( pain , bleeding , palpable pelvic masses ) are treated by removal of the device rather than by laparoscopy or laparotomy .
27 This can be claimed for romantic and romance , but is not appropriate in the case of arable farmer , nor of foreign policy or animate nouns from ( 7 ) , nor of new in ( 17 ) nor naked in ( 18 ) ; and it would clearly not apply for nuclear scientist either ; while there does exist a noun nucleus , which is certainly the etymological origin of the adjective , the scientist is , synchronically and in the usage of the ordinary speaker , to be connected with the indefinite notion of nuclear matters ( where , for example , Latin would have used the neuter plural of an adjective ) rather than directly with nucleus ; one may reasonably guess that many speakers to whom the word nucleus is quite unfamiliar would nevertheless feel they understood quite satisfactorily a headline which read : TOP NUCLEAR SCIENTIST GOES MISSING !
28 I know that many teachers of the present day think that learning by rote is archaic .
29 The migrating larval stages in large numbers may cause a transient pneumonia , but it is now recognised that many cases of so-called " Ascaris pneumonia " may be attributable to other infections , or to piglet anaemia .
30 It is well known that many members of Parliament are among those who are deeply dissatisfied with Parliament 's ability to control the executive , or even to find out what it is doing .
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