Example sentences of "many [prep] [pers pn] may [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ instant yen ’ and ‘ the searches for Shamans in the desert ’ , but unfortunately he offers his readers no Good Cult Guide and one feels that many of them may continue to go astray . |
2 | Although incomes had to be given , assessment of the personal property of ‘ spiritual men ’ was not stipulated , and since the clergy were customarily taxed more heavily than the laity a good many of them may have been less than forthcoming . |
3 | ‘ Aye , after a battle once you have recited your thanksgivings , or prior to a campaign , while you are girding your soul for a crusade as now , as blessedly now — many of you may yearn to kneel in your cell with saw and magnilens , with rasp and buffing wheel and carbide graver , with brush and inkhorn . |
4 | Computerised databases are just the job for any record storage as many of you may know . |
5 | Many of you may have noticed that Good Housekeeping is now on sale at the checkout in Sainsbury 's , which has gone down brilliantly with shoppers , as I discovered when I visited my local London branch . |
6 | Congress , there 's a very familiar phrase which is often used in the English language , a phrase which many of you may have used yourselves from time to time . |
7 | Many of us may wonder why it has taken so long to achieve the last two objectives , but I am delighted that the proposal is now to go ahead . |
8 | It speaks confidently of the existence of a wilderness in Britain which , like the wolf , many of us may have regarded as extinct . |