Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research , although it takes many forms , has recognisable characteristics . |
| 2 | Research , although it takes many forms , has recognisable characteristics . |
| 3 | Although it takes many years for a child to master the process of reading , once acquired , the skills are comprehensive and flexible enough to cope with a diversity of written material in a variety of fonts and formats ( including previously unknown ones such as unfamiliar handwriting ) . |
| 4 | In 1976 the Layfield Report , Local Government Finance , suggested that a local income tax should supplement the rates , although it listed many difficulties associated with such a venture . |
| 5 | My one great experience with the medical world had been a wartime wound , a shattered knee and leg , that although it incurred many months in hospital , to a young man of twenty-two , seemed to be totally external . |
| 6 | Although it shares many features and concepts with the R22 , the R44 is an entirely new design . |
| 7 | ( If you use a broadcast conversation — for example a TV chat show — remember that although it shares many features with private conversation it will also have an important difference : that the participants are speaking for an audience as well as for themselves . ) |
| 8 | Before the 1790s higher spending on poor relief , although it convinced many contemporaries that the incidence of poverty was increasing , probably did not , except in particularly bad years , reflect much other than the increase in population and in food prices . |
| 9 | A clear , bright hue , phthalocyanine green , has to be used with some caution due to its high tinting strength , although it has many mixing applications . |
| 10 | This case was so complex and difficult that it filled many books of written record and there was so much opposing evidence that it was difficult to get at the truth , but he at last clarified everything and settled it with such skill and wisdom that all commended his extreme cleverness . |
| 11 | Whether this means that life originated just once , or that it originated many times , each origin acquiring a different code , but that one origin gave rise to more successful competitors , we do not know . |
| 12 | That the new system generated little moral authority was less important than the fact that it gave many Sri Lankans access to the power of the state . |
| 13 | For him , even choices which are clearly dictated by subject matter are part of style : it is part of the style of a particular cookery book that it contains words like butter , flour , boil and bake ; and it is part of the style of Animal Farm that it contains many occurrences of pigs , farm , and Napoleon . |
| 14 | One feature alone redeems the book , namely that it illustrates many works which have rarely been reproduced since the original publication of the albums by Redon , though we could also have hoped that the quality of the reproductions were a little better . |
| 15 | Fear is the key , and it takes many forms . |
| 16 | This is the view cogently expressed by David Holbrook and it had many supporters among numbers in the National Association of Teachers of English . |
| 17 | Our lads know this and it 's many months ago that they first trained their sights on success in Newry . ’ |
| 18 | Play is many things to the child and it has many meanings . |
| 19 | Love is the largest region of the transcendent world and it has many forms — there can be love of God , love of nature , and the love of a human being and love of our fellowmen . |
| 20 | The valley , as it descends towards Ribeira Brava , is probably the most beautiful in Madeira , and it has many picnic tables and pull-offs for the car . |
| 21 | The style of the building is that of the 14th century , and it holds many monuments to previous rectors and the Bethell family , including a reference to Christopher Bethell who was one of the first whites to be killed in the Mafeking riots in July 1884 . |
| 22 | As well as being practical , the end result will look as if it cost many times as much . |
| 23 | The point is that an orderly community can exist only if it shares many practices , and that in all modern pluralistic societies a great measure of toleration of vastly differing outlooks is made possible by the fact that many of them enable the vast majority of the population to accept common standards of conduct . |
| 24 | So when Fleischmann and Pons announced test-tube fusion as a source of energy — which was the ‘ angle ’ that the media took up and portrayed it as a clean source — the news that they apparently saw tritium as a fusion product was lost on most media , but it made many scientists concerned and others excited . |
| 25 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 26 | In many ways the movement was a distant bogey but it worried many landowners whose rent rolls were hit by the heavy load of poor rates , now a quarterly impost almost everywhere . |
| 27 | The end point of return to work is something that can be measured , but it has many difficulties , particularly where there is significant unemployment . |
| 28 | This view may be initially attractive , but it has many difficulties ( Gale , 1968 ) . |
| 29 | But it has many advantages over other holographic transform methods . |
| 30 | Practical English Usage is invaluable because it solves many problems which are frequently not dealt with in coursebooks . |