Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [adv] many [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Some constant changes , particularly affecting checkConsistency and diagnostics elsewhere , can result in conditions becoming difficult or impossible to satisfy , so that the program either can not complete the set-up operation or delivers too many diagnostics and perhaps even fails to deliver measurements .
2 It 's hunger that drives so many ballet students there , not an innate artistic urge .
3 Equally to the point , the spectre of drastic economies that haunts so many men and women is often the result of their having only the haziest idea as to their likely income and expenditure .
4 A highly crafted , hugely sophisticated building-machine that rewrites so many rules of conventional corporate architecture is inevitably hard to digest .
5 But the motivation that leads so many historians to work on this material also derives from the status that the theory of natural selection has achieved within modern biology .
6 At the very least , the discipline of being involved in some form of training will help counteract the feeling of lethargy that creeps over many people who have been unemployed for a long while — a characteristic which is very counterproductive in an interview .
7 ‘ It was everything that attracts so many people .
8 The Back Bowls have only two main lifts so there is none of the mechanical clanking that blights so many resorts .
9 Decayed environments invite bulldozers and wholesale demolition — antithesis of the process of replacement over generations that gives so many townscapes in Britain their appeal .
10 Hence the alleged attraction that Black men hold for lower-class women , a popular belief that dates back many years .
11 In a Pastoral letter titled ‘ Our Duties to Those in Need ’ , he wrote of ‘ the disaster that threatens so many miners in our community .
12 I felt sure that he was more than a little drunk , but his voice never slurred or changed from that flat resonance that makes so many Americans sound as though they are speaking over a loud-hailer .
13 We may know these things on an intellectual level , but there 's nothing like having the emotional truth of them brought home on a gut level-none of us are free from some degree of the self-blame that makes so many women feel responsible for their own rape .
14 It is , then , custom which persuades us of it ; it is custom that makes so many men Christians ; custom that makes them Turks , heathens , artisans , soldiers etc .
15 Is it only the recession that makes so many people , especially the young , talk so much about their job prospects ?
16 In the immortal phrase that heralds so many climbs , we had just gone for a look .
17 Coleridge 's treatment of the topic is so varied , and takes so many forms , that to merely cite ‘ Creativity ’ as the subject matter of the poetry is to limit the range of Coleridge 's exploration .
18 The Daily Telegraph computer program compares each poll 's current findings with the 1987 election results , and calculates how many seats each party would win on the basis of a uniform national swing applied equally to every constituency ( leaving out those in Northern Ireland ) .
19 It contains no pretentiousness , has scarcely dated , and throws out many lessons — not least Johnson 's writerly good manners : if he uses a Greek tag he gives the translation .
20 In these poems the I far exceeds the Thou in frequency ( nearly three times ) , and presents as many complexities of attitude .
21 A dictionary of alchemical symbols is rather formidable , and indicates how many synonyms ( full or approximate ) there were , and how far this language was from being clear and distinct .
22 The Association of British Insurers ' new grouping for all cars more than doubles the number of categories and sorts out many anomalies .
23 In this case , the addresser , the message sender , has made unwarranted assumptions about the extent to which the same schematic knowledge is shared by the receiver , and leaves too many gaps , or gaps too broad to be bridged .
24 Stabbing consenting patients goes beyond such narrow confines , is less manageable as a practice , and makes too many inroads into these basic criminal law rules .
25 The ‘ Serendipity ’ group teaching material emphasizes not only scriptural exposition and application , but opens up many areas of personal life experience , encouraging mutual involvement in each other 's discipleship .
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