Example sentences of "[be] [adj] that many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impact of the restrictive practices legislation has been such that many agreements were abandoned as firms were unwilling to incur the costs of defending an agreement within the Court , and also as firms gradually came to recognise the difficulties of overturning the presumption that an agreement operated against the public interest . |
| 2 | I am convinced that many students often do not understand what is being said in teaching situations , though they become adept at pretending to , as they do not wish to lose face . |
| 3 | In the northern hemisphere , summer temperatures are such that many eggs become infective at a time when a population of susceptible foals is present . |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 | I am sure that many cases will be able to keep to that timetable , but I see difficulties in many others . |
| 6 | ‘ I am sure that many men are more generous than that , ’ Surtees observed . |
| 7 | Since it would have been unlikely that many property offenders would have been able to pay the fines that he advocated , they would mostly have been subjected to the forced labour that he proposed as the alternative . |
| 8 | Shippers are concerned that many NVOCC bills of lading are issued by unscrupulous or insolvent operators . |
| 9 | But medical diving experts are concerned that many newcomers to the sport are diving too deep , especially in the UK , exposing themselves to life-threatening injury from ‘ the bends ’ or decompression sickness . |
| 10 | ‘ Ca n't be all that many Englishmen qualified for work of that sort , do n't grow on trees . |
| 11 | We may be sure that many people even in the eleventh century had doubts about this doctrine ; just as St Anselm was convinced that the road to Jerusalem which could be pursued within the walls of a monastery was safer and holier than that to Jerusalem itself . |
| 12 | It is interesting that the Bank of Ireland spokesman who gave that figure should have been specific , as members will be aware that many figures have been rumoured over the past couple of months . |
| 13 | Drife should not be surprised that many women respond to a strange man with a conditioned response that arises from a long learning experience in a male dominated society . |
| 14 | Yet although it may be true that many types and styles of kung fu began here , it can not be realistically argued that all the varieties of kung fu that were and are still practised in China have their roots in Shaolin . |
| 15 | Now I 'm aware that many parents bring their children for baptism from reasons of superstition or custom or anything you like I 'm reminded of a certain tax gatherer who , inspired by sheer idle curiosity , climbed a tree curiosity maybe took him up the tree but it was the grace of God that brought him down . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is possible that many cases of petty assault were instituted as retaliation for verbal abuse . |
| 18 | Indeed it is possible that many people recognise subconsciously that the hypothesis is not merely unprovable , but false ; certainly many drift away from an active interest in the subject . |
| 19 | Total membership fluctuated widely around 5,000 and it is clear that many members only stayed with the Party for a short time . |
| 20 | It is clear that many others — perhaps Lanfranc too — saw this . |
| 21 | In the meantime , it is clear that many judges consider that the Lord Chancellor 's Department has ceased to act as an intermediary or ‘ hinge ’ between themselves and the executive Government and has become as much a part of the governmental machinery as any other Department of State . |
| 22 | It is clear that many Opposition Members , and possibly some Conservative Members , have received letters telling us that claims could not be paid because a bill board had been placed in the social security office . |
| 23 | It is clear that many people are now using asylum claims as a means of evading immigration control . |
| 24 | Constituency party activists were certainly mostly pro-Thatcher , but it is clear that many MPs used the secrecy of the ballot to oppose her . |
| 25 | It is clear that many media underlie the revelation we have in the Scriptures . |
| 26 | Also , it has proved very difficult to reproduce the events which led to Fleming 's famous observation , and it is clear that many versions of the story which were published 15 or more years later , after penicillin became famous , drew on faded but vivacious memories and are more or less imaginary . |
| 27 | When shared occupation is such that many people have front-door keys and some are not as careful as others about locking the front door , obvious risks occur . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Since pigeons ' ears are not exceptional , it is likely that many birds can pick up infrasound . |
| 30 | It is likely that many changes will take place in the near future . |