Example sentences of "many [prep] [pers pn] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Victorians spent countless hours on trains and passed many of them reading books . |
| 2 | Perhaps if I could deal with Mr 's point first though cos I 'll just refer you I think to paragraph three point two , three year accident record there , fifty five injuries , seventy one casualties , many of them taking place on the distributor road network . |
| 3 | Moreover , many of our tied houses are relatively small pubs , many of them serving villages and rural communities . |
| 4 | The second is that comparisons between the brains of living mammals show that many of them contain specializations that are not present in our own brains . |
| 5 | Simulators have come a long way in recent years and today many of them use screen addressing to update the information . |
| 6 | However , many halls of residence will have to pay business rate because many of them undertake business activities in the recesses . |
| 7 | I have seen queues of students , many of them learning English through ‘ self-study ’ forming outside the test centres in Beijing just in order to gain an entry form for the next sitting of the TOEFL examination . |
| 8 | Many of them retain contact with the surface of the sediment by means of long siphons ( see left ) , which enable them to breathe and feed on small organic particles . |
| 9 | It is true , however , that for US employers direct control of the workplace was crucial , and many of them fought unionism with every weapon at their command . |
| 10 | Many of them wore uniforms , even at this time of night . |
| 11 | The weather was fine after two days of rain , and over 400 spectators followed the match in the morning and 700 in the afternoon , many of them reaching Harpsden by push-bike . |
| 12 | Many of them contained pieces of carpet and what appeared to be spindles of thread . |
| 13 | Although the British needed this route to support Egypt , many of them saw Pan American as opportunistic and poised to exploit its advantage in the postwar years . |
| 14 | In the east and centre of the county we find a close network of narrow , winding lanes , wandering from hamlet to hamlet and farm to farm , churches standing alone , isolated houses dotted all over the map , many of them called Hall or Old Hall — significant names . |
| 15 | They went around the world with backpacks and no money , and they left home and lived together without getting married , and many of them became superstars when they were still only in their teens . |
| 16 | There are any number of sensible diets set out in paperbacks or reputable magazine supplements , many of them suggesting specimen meals for a week or a month . |
| 17 | The eggs were not pure poetry though , and many of them had lines and streaks of yellow duck shit across their smooth surfaces . |
| 18 | The two-sided station continued to be built throughout the 1870s , particularly in Italy , and Central Europe , though many of them had pseudo-heads , blocks built across the end to link the wings where the main entrances were . |
| 19 | It was known that many of them had sympathy with Mosley and his verminous bunch . |
| 20 | Moreover , many of them had brothers or fathers or sons who were free : it was part of a household deployment of people to spread them among occupations for mutual security and utility . |
| 21 | I noted last week , while I hung like the average orang-outang from a strap in a train on the London underground , gazing about at travellers ' knitteds , that many of them had cuffs rolled up . |
| 22 | To impose the condition that disabled parking spaces must be taken up before 10.30am will render it impossible for many , many of them to take advantage of this ‘ concession . ’ |
| 23 | They reduced nausea and prevented vomiting , and many of them made people sleepy . |
| 24 | Hume gives photograph after photograph of steepsided valleys in limestone and sandstone country in Egypt , which are obviously of watercut form , many of them containing caves , from which springs probably issued at an earlier period . |
| 25 | Paul Girouard in The Return to Camelot pointed out that the chivalric code of conduct ‘ never recovered from the Great War partly because the War itself was such a shattering of illusions , partly because it helped to produce a world in which the necessary conditions for chivalry were increasingly absent ’ and that the absence of so many men at the Front ‘ had put women in a position of responsibility which made many of them distrust chivalry as a form of concealed slavery ’ . |
| 26 | As disc records took a greater hold of the market , some cylinder companies turned to discs ; but many of them eschewed paper labels . |
| 27 | Many of them wear slippers around the house , and if they tend to shuffle a little as their joints stiffen , rugs become dangerous obstacles to their safe movement from room to room . |
| 28 | There is no doubt that it happens , no doubt that some child sex rings use forms of ‘ ritual ’ , no doubt that many of them produce child pornography , and no doubt that at the centre of some rings are extremely powerful men . |
| 29 | Many of them produce walk leaflets and give information about a wide range of accommodation in their areas . |
| 30 | Yet many of them share Mr Mukhametshin 's problem : making the first pile of cash was quick and relatively easy , but becoming a corporate tycoon — which usually involves a shift from trading to manufacturing — is hugely difficult in Russia 's topsy-turvy economy . |