Example sentences of "many [noun pl] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The administration costs would be endless and it would be difficult to prove exactly how many times a local pub rock group has played any one song . |
| 2 | Customs said that while in many cases a final answer can be sent within this deadline , letters requesting advice on more complex issues ‘ may need longer consideration ’ and in such cases it may only be able to send an acknowledgement within the ten days . |
| 3 | In many cases a virtual monopoly service has been involved and the direct target has been the public . |
| 4 | Public and press interest in restoration is certainly at a high point at present but in many cases a little knowledge seems to be a dangerous thing . |
| 5 | Bioremediation appears to be a very attractive , and in many cases a cost-effective way of cleaning up many contaminated sites . |
| 6 | Just as the most difficult task of the manager is ruthless intellectual honesty about his own skills , weaknesses and motives , so it is notoriously difficult to be as near as possible totally objective about the strengths and weaknesses of your company , particularly because in many cases a perceived weakness can actually be utilized as a source of strength . |
| 7 | In many cases a natural spray does not seem nearly as attractive when it is presented in two dimensions as it does when seen growing naturally in the wild , when of course it is viewed in three dimensions . |
| 8 | Schools offering special education for visually handicapped pupils have in many cases a residential base but still accept pupils on a daily basis when this is practicable . |
| 9 | In many cases a public footpath already existed and it was unclear how much more freedom walkers had gained . |
| 10 | Pannick is in many respects a mild reformer : more of a Gorbachev than a Yeltsin when it comes to this version of the one-party state . |
| 11 | In many respects a superb centre , even if it was poorly served by public transport and lacked the atmosphere of the Casa de Campo , the new complex would have been too large and expensive for a leaner fair with a thinner list of participating galleries . |
| 12 | Just as there is a break in the four volumes which constitute the Omnibus , Thru being in many respects a new departure , so the final volume of the Quartet breaks with the technological preoccupations of the first three novels . |
| 13 | Thus : ‘ poststructuralism [ … $ the philosophical expression of Modernism , whose characteristic themes were indeed announced by Nietzsche ’ ( p. 6 ) ; Nietzsche 's ‘ system of ideas ’ is ‘ in many respects a philosophical articulation of the main themes of Modernism ’ ( p. 67 ) . |
| 14 | Although conventional wisdom sees a long royal minority as the most daunting prospect any medieval state might face , in many respects a short minority posed more intractable problems . |
| 15 | Although conventional wisdom sees a long royal minority as the most daunting prospect any medieval state might face , in many respects a short minority posed more intractable problems . |
| 16 | For these reasons , an analysis of the so-called ‘ uneven playing-field ’ in Europe does not need to dwell for too long on the fact that there remains in many countries a low level of compliance with the rules . |
| 17 | In fact , ‘ public notice ’ comprised for many years a small insertion in the classified advertisement section of two national daily papers and one local paper , jammed between husbands who were no longer responsible for their wives ' debts and the liquidation of bankrupt companies . |
| 18 | GRAMOPHONE has published a number of Rust 's discographical works , including British Dance Bands on Record , 1911–1945 ( in association with Sandy Forbes ) , and he was for many years a regular contributor to this magazine . |
| 19 | Gow was for many years a close associate of Margaret Thatcher , the Prime Minister , having been her parliamentary private secretary during the first four years of her premiership in 1979-83 , and a member of her government as Minister of Housing in 1983-85 and a Minister of State at the Treasury from September to November 1985 . |
| 20 | For many years a companionate relationship may exist between two generations of adults in a family , each leading an independent existence . |
| 21 | ‘ Because I was for so many years a one man operation , ’ he says , ‘ I was always right at the centre of things . |
| 22 | Aware that Madcap Agnew 's name was scarcely mentioned in the Hall , that the Lodge had been for many years a forbidden place , and that her father 's heart still quailed to reflect on the terrors he had suffered as a child , Louisa had not dared to let her reflections on this unhappy history reach far enough . |
| 23 | Brian Chievely Phillips , M.C. , who has died aged 76 , was a well-known and popular figure on the Kentish sporting scene and beyond , a robust striker of the cricket ball and lethal coverpoint , a good enough lawn tennis player to win the Kent singles title in 1948 and , most notably , for many years a leading squash exponent who played seven years for England , in 1948 as captain , and over 20 years for Kent . |
| 24 | New Steine itself is one of Brighton 's famous Garden Squares , for many years a favourite destination for visitors to the Town , situated as it is near to the town centre . |
| 25 | If the tradition still exists today — and it appears that it very much does so — it implies that the United Kingdom does not have for many loyalists a natural character of statehood in the way the Southern state has for catholic nationalists . |
| 26 | Nor did Rosa Jacobsen stick slavishly to one version of a tale ; it was important to her to show how many angles a single event could be viewed from . |
| 27 | He mustered from his family 's many garrisons a substantial army , and went out to patrol his borders and look for his enemy . |
| 28 | ‘ It has taken many geologists a long time to accept plate tectonics ’ , Dr Blake told New Scientist at the survey 's west coast headquarters in Menlo Park , south of San Francisco . |
| 29 | The current reforms are in many ways a logical development and strengthening of the Griffiths management philosophy , but the nub of the reforms — the creation of the quasi-market — is a radical new departure . |
| 30 | It was in many ways a logical consequence of de Gaulle 's seeking to impose upon his partners and neighbours , and to put into practice , his vision of the future Europe , a vision which contrasted sharply with that of the pioneers of the Six . |