Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] many [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a real bond of friendship and understanding between many of the great churchmen of this age and leading warriors ; it would be a nice point to decide whether the happiness of St Margaret 's marriage to King Malcolm of Scotland ( see p. 210 ) was more or less remarkable than the depth of St Anselm 's friendship with Hugh of Avranches , the first earl of Chester , the savage hammer of the Welsh . |
| 2 | In Nepal , dolphin habitat has traditionally been in deep clear water with swift currents , but hydro-electric development is occurring in many of the susu 's favourite remaining areas . |
| 3 | The population has now become much more dispersed , with birds occurring on many of the larger lakes , reservoirs and areas of gravel pits in the county . |
| 4 | Its full extent is unclear and although it is true to say that the 1977 Act does not impose a general standard of fairness on contract terms , s3 is capable of applying to many of the terms which will be included in a set of standard terms of trading . |
| 5 | As one lawyer who is lobbying against many of the bill 's provisions told New Scientist : ‘ The very early aims of data protection laws were to protect the individual , and this particular bill was put forward by this government to protect business interests . |
| 6 | Listening to many of the conversations which make up my data , one has the impression that they take place in a climate of " linguistic tolerance " , where many different degrees of " Creoleness " and " Englishness " are accepted . |
| 7 | Looking at many of the crag diagrams , it 's hard to see where new routes can be fitted in . |
| 8 | This can be borne out by looking at many of the resources available — often well-produced , informative and written from a sympathetic point of view but lacking depth . |
| 9 | The image is of an aggressive radical tilting against many of the most powerful and conservative ( even Tory ) interests in British society . |
| 10 | Our research was designed to ensure that the field-worker was also around a great deal and was stubborn in exploiting the naturally occurring situations of privacy , where natural conversation is inevitable because it is interactionally difficult to abstain from it , such as in the back of vehicles , in the sanger while on guard duty , relaxing in many of the recreational rooms , or off duty . |
| 11 | This is despite the passing of a law in 1981 providing for many of the Italian reform components : general hospital wards , community mental health centres and procedures for linking the various sectors . |
| 12 | Eve Bendall ( 1976 ) in ‘ Teaching for reality ’ states that ‘ … the major part of written answers to nursing questions bear little or no relationship to the nursing performance of the writer in 80% of trainees ’ , and she goes on to say ‘ … we are producing trained nursing staff who are ( through no fault of their own ) woefully lacking in many of the skills they need . ’ |
| 13 | Rather than suggesting a different incentive system , which would enable the agency to maintain at least some timber harvesting in many of the forests on the list , the agency is deliberately limiting its options . |
| 14 | Club members help North-East riders with the cost of competing in many of the country 's championships . |
| 15 | Yet just because it is so general and common a process , finding its means and occasions and objects in such diverse ways , and again and again interpenetrating with many of the most practical or most ideological activities , it can not reasonably be abstracted to one exclusive set of practices or one exclusive intention or set of intentions . |
| 16 | Here a late-19th century district of five or six storey apartments arranged along narrow gridiron streets was suffering from many of the environmental problems characteristic of inner-city areas — lack of greenery , unsafe junctions , chaotic parking conditions and fast traffic , much of it rat-running between neighbouring traffic generators such as the railway station to the south and the four-lane Rhein Allee to the north . |
| 17 | The common thread running among many of the announcements was that companies were sprucing up their bus architectures in order to keep up with the faster processor and memory : Advanced Logic 's server features a new ‘ Quadflex ’ architecture using a 128-bit ASIC chip set and dual 64-bit buses . |
| 18 | The landscape of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ is very much a country of the mind , drawing on many of the ideas found in the pages of the anthropologists whom he catalogued as folklore experts in 1924 . |
| 19 | This reference was encouraging to many of the Shah 's Iranian opponents who interpreted it as the presidents support for their struggle against the Shah . |
| 20 | The Japanese were successfully entering into many of the most sensitive markets in the EC ( e.g. cars , consumer electronic equipment , computing equipment ) , and the NICs were becoming an increasing threat to many of the industries of the member states . |
| 21 | Industrial production has been falling in many of the world 's largest economies — over the last year it has fallen 2 per cent in Italy ; by 2.5 per cent in France ; by 6.5 per cent in Germany ; and by 7 per cent in Japan . |
| 22 | While not for one moment can the appalling state of housing in many of the major English cities be denied , there is no reason to believe that the problems of poor housing and underprivilege are any less acute among the rural as opposed to the urban poor : they are merely less obvious and less concentrated in numbers . |
| 23 | One thing is clear to the present writer : after talking to many of the older horsemen who had performed it — men born before or about 1890 — he became convinced that they were totally involved in the ceremony . |
| 24 | It also found that some of the avowedly " green " unit trusts were actually investing in many of the polluting companies . |