Example sentences of "many [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An open , sunny site is best as many herbs originate from the Mediterranean where they get thoroughly baked during the summer . |
| 2 | Its frenzied rejection was very different to that of the many projects listed in the Police Foundation or Home Office Registers of Research mentioned above , most of which are simply ignored and never ever receive any review . |
| 3 | I have over the years many times come to the rostrum but for the first time it gives me no pleasure at all in saying what has to be said . |
| 4 | He conversed with them on all matters connected with their business and had his trouble often many times repeated with the useful wrinkles he gained . |
| 5 | I have many times entered into the place that is called , and rightly , the Gateway to Hell . |
| 6 | Her invocation of themes and support for many policies favoured by the party 's grass-roots supporters has made the party more radical . |
| 7 | Support for this hypothesis comes from an analysis of male peeking rates during the change in plumage which many ducks undergo at the end of the breeding season . |
| 8 | This was to be one of the many houses used by the Bishops of Rochester and a favourite residence of some during the next three centuries . |
| 9 | He did not speak , stayed in his room and ate there , slept in the daytime and spent many hours listening to the radio . |
| 10 | I told no one , not even Méli , about my visit to Conchis , but I spent many hours conjecturing about the mysterious third person in the house . |
| 11 | I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt . |
| 12 | I spent many hours hidden in the bushes , silently watching one pair of bulbuls make their nest from beginning to end . |
| 13 | In the present case the Court had not been informed how many hours remained under the original order ; the later order would be quashed and an order for 60 hours substituted . |
| 14 | Madeleine was awarded for her many hours spent with the elderly , helping with cooking , shopping or driving , as well as her work for the social services . |
| 15 | I did then go about the task Mr Farraday had set me with some dedication ; I spent many hours working on the staff plan , and at least as many hours again thinking about it as I went about other duties or as I lay awake after retiring . |
| 16 | Only last year , on the instructions of Luther Reynolds , David had brought the boy out of the mines and begun to teach him the way of business ; Matthew often accompanied him on his rounds , and though he made little attempt to befriend David , the boy worked , and learned , and spent so many hours closeted in the ‘ den ’ with the old man , that Beth was obliged to voice her concern . |
| 17 | Many researchers come to the electronic version of the BL catalogue with experience of its printed version , and so are arguably more fitted by experience to know its idiosyncrasies and quirks . |
| 18 | ‘ I have wasted a good many minutes hunting about the front . ’ |
| 19 | A power-play goal by Searle half-way through the second period made it 5-4 and with so many minutes left on the clock , a decisive result looked certain . |
| 20 | More than forty thousand people were moved from the old city centre to make way for the new buildings , but even though stereotyped blocks of flats were put up around the site of the palace and were in many cases completed by the spring of 1988 , they remained empty until after the revolution . |
| 21 | In this regard , it is relevant that the ‘ places ’ created by the expansion of non-manual/salaried employment were in many cases filled by the sons of manual wage workers , providing them with an avenue for social advancement , rather than , say , by more rapid breeding on the part of previously privileged strata . |
| 22 | Lord Lane personally rejected the second appeal of the Birmingham Six in January 1988 saying , in words which returned to haunt him : ‘ As with many cases referred by the Home Secretary to the Court of Appeal , the longer the case has gone on , the more this court has been convinced that the jury was correct . ’ |
| 23 | Many cases documented in the following chapters on obscenity , in which Mrs Whitehouse was involved , be it either centrally or peripherally , may , quite unlike the Gay News or Thorsen cases , have no direct or obvious link with Christianity . |
| 24 | The understanding of the interaction of statute and case law required in this area is no different from that required in many cases pursued in the county courts and High Court . |
| 25 | It is the replacement of this differentiation of state and society by a more complex web of interrelated systems which has led many lawyers to seek alternatives to positivist approaches which in many cases rely on the liberal model of parliamentary democracy as their underlying assumption . |
| 26 | And there are many blanks left in the weeks of courtship which a loving faith fills with happy assurance . |
| 27 | At Friedrichstrasse station , where many Westerners arrive on the Stadtbahn , the city railway , long queues formed . |
| 28 | In fact there are many acts woven into the fabric of our everyday lives which have just such an importance , which may critically influence our relationships with others . |
| 29 | Jeff Young is also confident that not too many acts slip through the net cast by his department . |
| 30 | The many setbacks suffered by the Wilson government , however , should not be allowed to obscure the extent to which Britain was able to exert influence in Nato in the years 1964 – 70 . |