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

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1 A friend of Degas , who was probably the most potent influence on his art , he absorbed many of the doctrines of Impressionism — especially its concern with contemporary life , even at its most squalid .
2 Many of the tasks of soldiers of the UN battalion are of this humanitarian nature , rather than purely operational .
3 In a large organisation , many of the tasks of junior management are routine and boring .
4 A minicomputer can often carry out many of the tasks of a mainframe computer but is smaller and needs less staff .
5 But it is not adequate for many of the tasks of the modern capitalist state which has to intervene increasingly according to a ‘ substantive ’ rather than ‘ formal ’ rationality ( Therborn 1978 : 54 , 89 ) based on highly specialized forms of expertise ( e.g. Dunleavy 1982 : 196–205 ) — for example , in production itself .
6 These include the highly specialized nature of much of the technical analysis , the limited capacity for checking the accuracy of many of the findings of this kind of research and the consequent need for the development of knowledge-based inference machines for extracting useful information from secondary and often proxy data .
7 ( Many of the findings in this study are broadly similar to those of Johnes 1990 ) .
8 Investigators suspect that many of the cargoes of coal had a high sulphur content .
9 Territories here are seen as action-facilitating in the sense that many of the patterns of action we have observed rely for their appropriateness on the fully defined context in which they take place .
10 The important point , though , is that the discourse touches many of the lines of force active within the discipline at that moment , and — despite subsequent transformations of the relationships between English , education , culture , and democracy — still active in the 1980s .
11 But there is probably no substance that will make wrinkles disappear permanently and by midlife many of the lines on our faces have been etched there by laughter or frowns over the years .
12 For those who did n't get to know , some of the local fraternity cut many of the lines on Friday night or Saturday morning .
13 He shares many of the interests of other ten-year-olds , enjoying cricket , soccer and rugby , and he is a supporter of Manchester United and Middlesbrough .
14 As a consequence of government policy , many of the challenges to the exercise of ministerial discretion in recent years have been instituted by Labour local authorities .
15 Many of the farmers on the committees , whether council or ministerial appointees , are conservationists too and it is perhaps important to stress that it is not the quality of the individuals involved that is of concern .
16 The terms on which the peasantry were set free perpetuated in new forms many of the obstacles to economic growth and social change characteristic of serfdom .
17 The Royal Victoria Hospital treats many of the casualties of Belfast violence .
18 Her own glass has many of the merits of the historic Arts and Crafts stained glass artists , such as Harry Clarke and Wilhelma Geddes , whom she greatly admires .
19 His data confirm many of the conclusions of Lal ( 1981 ) .
20 The essential unity of the stratigraphy and tectonics of the Palaeozoic on opposite sides of the North Atlantic was pointed out by Bailey ( 1929 ) , and developed in two important papers by Waterschoot van der Gracht in 1938 ( a and b ) which anticipated many of the conclusions of plate tectonics , and charted the course of the Variscan Front under southern Britain and Ireland .
21 The UCTA 1977 makes some clauses wholly ineffective , but the drafter or the client may be tempted to include such terms in order to deter claims , relying on the fact that many of the persons against whom the contract will be enforced will be ignorant of the law .
22 It is not surprising that in many of the contests over the centuries , no archer has been able to ‘ ding doon ’ the papingo .
23 Much of the earlier work was done on Mediterranean terraces and these , as well as many of the terraces in other areas , can not be directly related to Pleistocene events .
24 But military analysts in Bangkok pointed out that casualty figures are low , many of the positions along the sparsely-populated Route 69 are little more than bamboo huts sheltering two or three soldiers , and no big towns have been threatened .
25 How many such stories lie hidden from us we can not tell ; but we can be sure that he reflects many of the aspirations of his day : as a merchant on land and sea , in the Baltic , the North Sea and the Mediterranean ; as a pilgrim to the shrines of England and Scotland , to Saint-Gilles , to St Peter and to Jerusalem , he accomplished what many others were doing , and far more aspired to .
26 It is true that many of the experiments in this area were grossly inadequate in method : they failed to ensure that the individuals they studied were similar , apart from the single factor being scrutinized ; they relied unduly on mothers ' memories for information about early events ; their various findings could not be compared because of disagreement about what should be counted as ‘ early weaning ’ or ‘ harsh training ’ , and so on .
27 An international comparison of union attitudes to work organisation found that British unions adopted a neutral position on this subject.8 Many of the experiments in work organisation in this country have been conducted without the involvement of workers ' trade union representatives .
28 Invoice Discounting offers many of the advantages of Factoring , the main difference being that Barclays does not provide sales ledger administration , credit management , or debt collection , which remain your responsibility .
29 Filmstrips possess many of the advantages of the tape-slide presentations , but they have a number of disadvantages , one being that the pre-set sequence compels the pictures to be shown in a given order .
30 I see no reason whatsoever , to take the more organised Filane Emirates and Yoruba chieftainates as examples , why some of the more advanced communities should not enjoy many of the advantages of self-government
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