Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adj] that many " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is probable that many patients are treated privately and so these cases are not notified and also that some patients may come to England for diagnosis and treatment . |
| 2 | While the woman has no natural way of eliminating the infection , it is probable that many men carry the infection in the urethra for a matter of a few days only , after which the flushing action of passing urine may eliminate the organisms . |
| 3 | If , conversely , one used educational and type-of-occupation criteria to classify individuals ( and these are highly relevant to the question of how standard a speaker 's language is ) , it is probable that many wives , especially those of working-class men , would come out above their husbands . |
| 4 | However , in view of the importance of even 3d. in the weekly budget of the poor , the inconvenience to , and lack of enthusiasm for the scheme of , employers and the absence of any machinery for ensuring that all workers earning under £150 p.a. wee indeed covered , it is probable that many of the poorest workers ( many of them women ) were not in the end provided for . |
| 5 | It is probable that many factors are involved in the incidence , and that these vary among populations . |
| 6 | But inspection under these schemes is entirely voluntary , and although it is impossible to gather figures , it is certain that many more organisations ( both private and public ) operate outside the recognition schemes than operate within them . |
| 7 | If one looks at the lists of endangered specials it is apparent that many are large animals . |
| 8 | The issues raised by this and subsequent questions go to the heart of the debate on the Compensation Fund , and it is apparent that many of those who answered negatively felt to varying degrees that in the present commercial climate the public could no longer expect the entire profession to compensate them for any losses they suffered at the hands of a tiny minority of errant solicitors — particularly as no comparable compensation was available from the providers of other professional services . |
| 9 | It is extraordinary that many more people have an inspection when buying a second-hand car than they do when purchasing a house . |
| 10 | IBM Corp traditionally sends departing executives off with glowing resumees of their illustrious careers , so it was striking that the announcement late Friday that former chairman and chief executive officer John Akers had just retired from the company after 33 years was accompanied by the briefest and curtest summaries of his career — after all , the man had significant achievements behind him when he acceded to the top job , and it is arguable that many of the problems that plagued the company during Akers ' tenure were the fault of his predecessors , although it must be said that he was also in the loop at the time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | These are discussed by J. Milroy ( 1983 ) , and it is noticeable that many of these features , such as w for wh ( in words of the type what , which ) , have reflexes in later English pronunciation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is possible that many cases of petty assault were instituted as retaliation for verbal abuse . |
| 15 | While some landforms may have been so produced , it is possible that many of them may be relict forms subject to little later modification . |
| 16 | It is possible that many with irritable bowel syndrome patients have a pan-intestinal motor disorder , and that extra-alimentary sites innvervated by the autonomic nervous system , such as the bladder , are involved . |
| 17 | It is possible that many of the anti-microbial antibodies described in inflammatory bowel disease and other inflammatory disease states , may in fact be reflections of immunisation against microbial heat-shock proteins , which has been implied in the pathogenesis of several autoimmune disease states and which may induce anti-lactoferrin antibodies ( see below ) . |
| 18 | Events which have been implicated in schizophrenia are of a more everyday nature ( although it is possible that many also have a private meaning ) , and a very wide range of emotionally arousing events may trigger a relapse . |
| 19 | It is plausible that many species may have evolved such implicit computational constraints . |
| 20 | It is always salutary to question whether edicts are obeyed , and it is true that many of Charlemagne 's do not emphasize sanctions but assume a sense of shared moral responsibility throughout society . |
| 21 | It is true that many people cling to office , or are permitted to do so , and it is often that barnacle-like permanence which gives committees and boards a sense of dull sameness and an unwillingness to reform . |
| 22 | It is true that many of these creatures are aware of ordinary physical sensations beyond our human thresholds . |
| 23 | However , it is true that many people have succeeded in shedding weight on them in the past . |
| 24 | It is true that many films and television programmes are about violence and murder and it does n't take long for children to copy ideas . |
| 25 | It is true that many sociologists of religion have suggested definitions of their subject matter , but there is no clear agreement and it can be argued that if we were to stick to only one definition then we would not be able to ask — let alone answer — some of the questions in which they are interested . |
| 26 | While it is true that many large Victorian family houses have been successfully converted into small flats , the smaller suburban-style houses built in the 1920s and 1930s and copied in the ‘ garden cities ’ and new towns of the 1940s are less amenable to conversion and are often located in such a way within the city that they will have an effect on the life-style and employment opportunities of men and women for generations to come ( McDowell , 1983 ) . |
| 27 | It is true that many experienced abseilers will tackle the steepest descents without any protection or having tied the hanging rope ends together . |
| 28 | It is true that many of the experiments in this area were grossly inadequate in method : they failed to ensure that the individuals they studied were similar , apart from the single factor being scrutinized ; they relied unduly on mothers ' memories for information about early events ; their various findings could not be compared because of disagreement about what should be counted as ‘ early weaning ’ or ‘ harsh training ’ , and so on . |
| 29 | While it is true that many of the great names of the past have been theists rather than atheists , their orientation has often been unorthodox when judged against the norms of their day . |
| 30 | It is true that many people who are hourly-paid avoid work on a Saturday morning because they feel it costs them money — the total tax for the week exceeding the Saturday pay . |