Example sentences of "[adj] that many [noun pl] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | noted in the 1890s that many sons would prefer to move rather than accept legal compulsion , and that their own old parents would often see relief as a right : ‘ the aged prefer a pittance from the parish ( regarded as their due ) to compulsory maintenance by children ; compulsion makes such aid very bitter . ’ |
| 2 | PFA spokesman Brendan Batson surveyed the ever-increasing number of imports and said : ‘ The cost of ground developments after the Taylor Report is so steep that many managers ca n't afford to shop in our domestic transfer market . |
| 3 | Since only a limited number of booklets had been issued to each school , it seemed possible that many teachers might well have seen and used it , a section at a time , in the form of photocopied sheets . |
| 4 | Strictly speaking , though , pumice is only a kind of highly vesicular glassy rock with a low density , so low that many types will float on water , and it may be anywhere between basalt and rhyolite in composition . |
| 5 | The guitar 's overall finish is faultless : the vintage turquoise body and clear lacquered neck set a standard that many manufacturers would love to emulate . |
| 6 | Overall , headhunting did create its own demand , and it is still arguable that many companies can do without it ; indeed , many do . |
| 7 | His career was not without its less attractive moments , and it is sad that many fans will remember the famous picture in the 1981 Wisden of him kicking down the stumps after having an appeal refused in New Zealand almost as readily as they will recall his wonderful bowling ; yet even in dissent he was physically graceful , and the picture is positively balletic . |
| 8 | Since pigeons ' ears are not exceptional , it is likely that many birds can pick up infrasound . |
| 9 | It is likely that many changes will take place in the near future . |
| 10 | Capital values at least have the benefit of being related to a market , although I am sure that many owners will seek to convince their bank managers that their property should be in band H while they seek to convince the rating authorities that their property should really be in band F. |
| 11 | I am sure that many cases will be able to keep to that timetable , but I see difficulties in many others . |
| 12 | But it seems unlikely that many customers will rely solely on the private network , instead using it in tandem with British Telecom 's lines . |
| 13 | It is unlikely that many Europeans would have had access to Aristotle 's writings , but the cuckoo 's habits were certainly well enough known during the Middle Ages for them to be mentioned by Chaucer ( in The Parlement of Foules , 1382 ) , and for the term ‘ cuckold ’ — describing a man deceived by his wife — to have passed into the English language . |
| 14 | It seems unlikely that many cases will occur now in relation to the old law , and therefore it is omitted from this book . |
| 15 | It is unlikely that many visitors will peer too closely into the workings of Spain after a decade of socialist rule . |
| 16 | It seems unlikely that many readers will find themselves as first member ( that is , in the x-place ) of any element of R3 . |
| 17 | I congratulate my hon. Friend on accurately quoting the words of the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) on 25 July 1989 , when he described the targets as ’ so heroic that many doctors will give up trying . ’ |
| 18 | Had no such provision been made , and had it merely been left to the initiative of backbenchers to keep an eye on instruments tabled , it is highly probable that many instruments would become or remain law with never a critical eye being cast over them . |
| 19 | It is highly probable that many men will claim a belief that the girl was over 16 since , if sexual intercourse has taken place , this is the only defence available to the charge . |
| 20 | I am worried that many students may convert to being part time rather than full time , simply because they can not afford to be full-time students . |
| 21 | The hon. Member for Garscadden said last week that he finds it incomprehensible that many properties may stay in the same band in perpetuity . |
| 22 | How far unions are binding , how far they are exclusive , how long they last , whether they bind men and women equally , whether sexual unions are public or merely private matters , whether the recognition of unions is inevitably linked with the legitimation of children — all these questions and many more are so variable that many anthropologists would argue that is not possible to give a valid universal definition of marriage [ Leach , 1961 ] . |
| 23 | Reception from conventional ground-based transmission equipment is so bad that many families can watch television only if they receive signals piped in by cable . |