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Example sentences of "many of his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	Thus provisioned , he invited Louise to come to the banqueting hall to celebrate her birthday , though in a very quiet way , he assured her ; he had not forgotten that she must still be suffering on account of her father , who had only recently taken his last dive down the well in the Residency yard in the wake of so many of his former patients .
2	Now Amsterdam seem to be willing to take him on despite the scandal , and are presenting him as an exciting and controversial figure , while many of his former colleagues in The Hague admire him , as do the public ; he is seen as decisive , inspiring and provocative .
3	His estrangement from many of his former colleagues became complete in 1980 when he endorsed the presidential candidacy of Ronald Reagan .
4	All visits and parcel deliveries to prisons and the Young Offenders Centre were cancelled today to enable many of his former colleagues to attend the funeral .
5	He acquired the rudiments of the game in a tougher prep school than many of his Western contemporaries who have long since been cosseted by snooker 's new-found respectability .
6	As an advocate of the STV has observed , if an MP is " forced by the system to spend his working hours worrying about the number of first-preference votes he will get at the next election , and many of his sleeping hours dreaming about them , he or she will work harder than ever for constituents ' "
7	I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot
8	Many of his other friends also disowned him .
9	He was probably one of the first to discover the principle of electrotyping by depositing copper electrolytically on to an engraved copper plate , but , as with many of his other inventions and discoveries , he failed to take out a patent and most of the benefits were reaped by others .
10	In the Goya wail paintings today fittingly displayed in the Prado , and in many of his other works , one sees again and again these formidable elephantine rocks lowering over a cringing humanity trying to find shelter in a bandit landscape .
11	He did n't slip drugs into my coffee and rape me , like so many of his other victims .
12	This , like many of his other speeches , was prose of a high evocative quality .
13	Wilson 's major misfortune was that the firm of Veitch declined rapidly before 1914 , when the stock was sold off before many of his new plants had been propagated or distributed : the Arnold Arboretum had fewer difficulties with his later collections .
14	Many of his young friends still lived at home under the watchful eyes of their mothers and needed a place to take their mistresses .
15	Thom could safely be publicly discounted as an eccentric ( he was indeed something of an eccentric in many of his personal habits ) and a generally irrelevant gadfly , but it was rather more difficult to depict Hawkins 's computer in the same light .
16	He stayed a fortnight , and during that time dined memorably on honey pie , made an even more unfavourable impression at Marshmills , and no doubt spent long hours talking in Poole 's garden arbour , ‘ an Elysium ’ , as he called it , in which he had already recited many of his recent poems .
17	Eric Zeisl ( 1905–59 ) was yet another of the stream of Austrian composers who fled before the jaws of Hitler 's army , though his music has met with less acclaim than that of many of his fellow refugees .
18	On the other hand , for all his ferocity in matters of principle , the archbishop was an aged and a sick man who had suffered too many humiliations and had offended too many of his fellow prelates in the 1290s and since to command strong support from them ; he was still unsure of papal backing for his measures , and indeed found them countermanded by Clement .
19	Vandenberg was shocked at the House vote and the stupidity of many of his fellow Republicans .
20	Like many of his fellow compatriots in the rogues ' gallery of Scottish football , Hughie Gallacher compulsively disliked authority .
21	He reaffirms his pleasure at once again seeing so many of his loyal friends .
22	Jay sells many of his home-bred fish to the trade .
23	Mr Brown 's supporters reel off a list of bills that the Speaker has influenced ; but even they have to admit that many of his greatest victories have been stopping ‘ evil ’ Republican laws rather than creating good Democratic ones .
24	Rather , it is the influence of the German tradition that is more apparent in ‘ Enigma ’ — particularly through Brahms , who used variation forms in many of his finest works .
25	Mr Najibullah , many of his key ministers , elite units of the Afghan army and most of the Pakistan-based Mujahideen groups are members of the Pushtun tribes which have dominated Afghanistan for 200 years .
26	Many of his best-paying clients were American corporations in Europe , the sort to whom he would prefer to avoid making laborious explanations .
27	That claim may have been sheer bravado , but given his long association with US intelligence , the general undoubtedly has enough mud to splatter many of his erstwhile US friends .
28	Nor did it help Ford that many of his junior officers and a good third of his rankers had seen far more fighting then he had himself .
29	Many of his junior colleagues in Glasgow and Edinburgh subsequently filled senior academic and hospital posts in this country and overseas and he is remembered by them with much gratitude and affection .
30	His ambitious score contains within each of its four substantial , trenchantly argued movements both portraits of , and tributes to , many of his close friends who have died of Aids .