Example sentences of "many [prep] [art] [noun pl] for " in BNC.

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1 It is also used in many of the cakes for decorative effects , piping , and backgrounds that are peaked up with a palette knife so that the icing hardens into a choppy surface to represent grass or sea .
2 Many of the claims for literacy examined above rest upon theories developed within the discipline of linguistics .
3 The fourth year focuses on the development of field and laboratory skills through the medium of group and individual projects , many of the topics for which are developed in a course on Environmental Problems and Issues .
4 There was , however , sufficient overlap between his illustrative and painted work for one to fertilise the other ; many of the drawings for Time Was Away afterwards provided the basis for paintings .
5 Lacan offers us a new conception both of science and of truth , and asks us to abandon many of the procedures for verification or falsification on which the credibility of scientific enquiry traditionally rests .
6 These words , ‘ allegiance ’ and ‘ committed users ’ are used deliberately because they are appropriate to many of the programmes for adults .
7 Much recent research in social cognition has stressed that many apparently complex tasks satisfy all or many of the conditions for being automatic in this sense ( e.g. social categorisation — Higgins , Rholes & Jones , 1977 ; Higgins , 1989 ; causal attribution — Bargh , 1984 ; social interaction — Langer , 1978 ) .
8 They provided many of the resources for the celebrations and allowed the students to proceed as they wished with few officials presiding over events .
9 Community mental health care does imply the closure of the large , asylum style psychiatric hospitals , not least because many of the resources for new services are tied up in the old institutions .
10 Many of the rules for knitting these stitches on single bed go out of the window as soon as you bring the second bed into operation .
11 Many of the reasons for widespread failure of conservation programmes and policies are the same as for failures in some other development programmes in lesser developed countries .
12 It is the argument of this book that many of the reasons for this are organizational , and that a very considerable change in attitudes and practice results from taking up the administrative implications of all aspects of resource-based learning ( audio-visual , print-form and other ) and putting them to hand .
13 Aye the , many of the reasons for these being over are nothing to do with the efficiency of the design office , they 're due to the efficiency of the s
14 I think that erm we have a great role to play in international agencies , in people going out to the developing world to teach through education , to perhaps change attitudes in rural development where , as we know , greater prosperity tends to influence people to have fewer children , and since many of the reasons for having large families is to ensure survival , so that the agricultural plot is taken over , the family continues to work , the active group can field the older group , there is less need for that now .
15 Many of the proposals for re-establishing full employment in the aftermath of the 1979–81 recession were aimed at increasing the level of demand in the economy .
16 The idea of radical change in terms of a few basic ideas runs through many of the proposals for reform of Spanish government and society made in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries as well as those produced by the age of the Enlightenment .
17 If the US could be persuaded to take a similar line , many of the problems for companies contemplating an international issue would disappear .
18 Indeed , early exchange activities could not have done , since towns did not exist before late prehistoric times , and in later times periodic markets and fairs provided many of the opportunities for trade .
19 When the first draft of Li 's report was presented a fortnight ago it incorporated many of the demands for faster reform voiced earlier this year by China 's elder statesman , Deng Xiaoping .
20 Editor , — Sir Bernard Tomlinson 's report on medical care in London seems to assume that many of the demands for care made on teaching hospitals in inner London could be satisfied by general practitioners and thus the need for acute beds in London would fall .
21 Delegates also expressed concern over the success of the anti-fur trade campaign , which had effectively shut down many of the markets for one of the Inuits ' principal exports .
22 Stubbs points out , for instance , that many of the confusions for children acquiring literacy arise because these children are not yet familiar with some of the purposes for which writing is used and the conventions through which these purposes are articulated in their culture : ‘ many of its functions are often so specialised and particular ’ that they are ‘ mostly quite beyond children 's experience ’ and ‘ many of the situations which conventionally require writing are of a fairly specialised and restricted kind ’ ( ibid. p. 108 ) .
23 They tend to be inspired by many of the ideas for home projects they see , but they lack confidence .
24 The Whig group led by the Marquis of Rockingham provided , in the 1760s and 1770s , the first example of this ; while many of the ideas for which it stood inspired the somewhat similar group led by Charles James Fox in the 1780s and 1790s .
25 Many of the prescriptions for creativity embody means of enabling the worker to break away from established continuous patterns of thought , since such patterns of thought are held to hinder access to new ideas not contained in a logical sequence from the starting point of the problem .
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