Example sentences of "[adv prt] many [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were times of change and Keys in his History of Eastington speaks of Hicks as the man ‘ whose water wheels and steam engines shut down many of the cottage looms that had made wealthy many of the Clutterbuck family ’ . |
| 2 | Charles kept the appellants waiting , bribing them from time to time to stop them becoming too impatient ; meanwhile his younger brother Louis Duke of Anjou concentrated on building up a party in Aquitaine , winning over many of the nobility of Pèrigord , Rouergue , Quercy and the Agenais by a judicious mixture of bribes and promises . |
| 3 | Book provision in any one system is centrally coordinated — though in very large systems a regional or subsystem structure may take over many of the coordination functions . |
| 4 | Some observers predict that ground-based fibre-optic systems may take over many of the point-to-point telecommunications tasks performed by satellites . |
| 5 | Mr Hook pointed out many of the Division One sides were concentrated round the south-east , which meant they had less travelling expenses . |
| 6 | More importantly , count out many of the science , engineering and medical professors in Scottish universities . |
| 7 | Mr F.T.S. Houghton has worked out many of the salt ways of the West Midlands , and considers that the short stretch of Salt Way near Banbury was part of the route taken between Droitwich and Princes Risborough , by way of Stratford-upon-Avon and Aynho . |