Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] the many " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pringle and Laverty are apparently unaware of the many family health services authorities that have set up approval procedures for employing counsellors in primary care . |
| 2 | And with that , the great swan spread its wings and glided gently downward through the many branches of the big tree . |
| 3 | Enthusiasts become so excited by the many varied potentials of the media , they try to use them all . |
| 4 | In this survey , I have elected to concentrate on English presses , in the belief that it is they that will be largely sought by English collectors ; but I am much aware of the many fine examples in other countries , not least in America , where such names as Bruce Rogers of the Riverside Press , Cambridge , Mass. , Frederic Goudy of the Village Press , Park Ridge , Illinois ( and later Marlborough , New York ) and Daniel Berkeley Updike , who set up the Merrymount Press , will always be honoured . |
| 5 | The silliest and the most sinful of the many heresies of pseudo-democracy is to pretend that all studies and all learning are ‘ created equal ’ . |
| 6 | As Fidel Castro 's revolution entered its 33rd year this month , shortages of food and consumer goods were the most obvious of the many challenges to Cuba 's Caribbean version of socialism . |
| 7 | ‘ The day 's events are made all the more hectic by the many telephone calls and queries I receive from members of the public , fellow officers and councillors . |
| 8 | Other forms of surgery are , therefore , still necessary for the many patients who suffer uncontrollable or repeated haemorrhage after sclerotherapy . |
| 9 | It is no accident that many slums were built on marshes : Mosside in Manchester , the Bogside in Londonderry , and much of the East End of London , where the suffix ‘ ey ’ to many of the place-names tell us that they were islands in Saxon times : Hackney , Stepney , and , most notorious of all , Bermondsey , where , in the 1850s , the river Neckinger , ‘ the colour of strong green tea ’ , flowed round Jacob 's Island , which was used by Dickens as a setting for Oliver Twist , and was described by him as ‘ the filthiest , the strangest , the most extraordinary of the many localities that are hidden in London ’ . |
| 10 | I am also confused at the many descriptions like ‘ varnishing ’ and ‘ glazing ’ . |
| 11 | Both she and Dr Brewis were also concerned about the many patients on their wards who came from outside Newcastle : they knew even less about the arrangements for community care within those districts . |
| 12 | I was also pleased for the many , many people who had faith in me , even when , I guess , I had doubted myself . |
| 13 | One of the most important of the many articles manufactured in this shop are the steel carriage springs , each of which is submitted to a test quite as severe as that applied to the guns in Woolwich Arsenal , before it is sent out to administer to the comfort of the travelling public , the test chiefly consisting in the dropping of heavy weights upon the springs . |
| 14 | Ideally , this is the kind of love that should be the most important of the many elements which form the basis of human marriages . |
| 15 | Frampton was one of the most accomplished of the many interwar European painters who represented the observed world with pronounced clarity . |
| 16 | Looking back I am increasingly grateful to the many people who took a share in this fortunate happening , though now I realise that I might have expressed my gratitude to them more often and more appreciatively . |
| 17 | In the early eighteenth century poverty was partially responsible for the many applications for military rank , for in the first half of the century even a commission in a new regiment , and the near certainty of half-pay at the conclusion of the war emergency , was attractive . |
| 18 | Conrad was well aware of the many facets of the word ‘ romance ’ — idealism towards women and events , the hero 's victory over extreme hazard , exotic details of place and circumstance . |
| 19 | Both men have been prominent in the academic debates which have helped to make the current revolution in historical studies one of the most significant of the many upheavals Gorbachev has sanctioned . |
| 20 | Of the 121 Winterhalters the bevy of bathing beauties in ‘ Florinda ’ is a must , and I suppose ‘ The First of May 1851 ’ , the most touching of the many splendid family portraits . |
| 21 | We are very grateful to the many individuals , centres and organisations who submitted responses to the Consultative Paper . |
| 22 | Various accounting bodies and organisations criticised the Charity Commissioners ' draft revised statement of recommended practice on accounting by charities , SORP2 , for being too complex for the many small charities that would have to comply with it . |
| 23 | Tom 's widow and son flew over for the service and were very appreciative of the many old friends who attended , and for the lovely lunch provided by the ladies of the Kinghan Church . |