Example sentences of "many of them [vb mod] [vb infin] " 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 | If there 's insufficient space for the army of fans , many of them might end up on the beaches , which the Italian police have expressly forbidden . |
| 4 | Not only are the proposals right in themselves , but many of them might win support at Maastricht . |
| 5 | Their habitations would be huts , which they would have to build themselves , in desert land away from the few cities ; their diet would be healthy and sustaining but it would be monotonous , and they would have to do without delicacies which many of them might have become used to in the Diaspora . |
| 6 | If underground outfits had to go legal many of them would go bust , their profitability often lying in their clandestine nature . |
| 7 | Many of them would do perfectly well in disciplines which are less idiosyncratic than English and have a more obvious international currency , like linguistics or economics or marketing . |
| 8 | It may perhaps be objected that the distance may prevent the pupils of the Hospitals from attending the Lectures of the Veterinary Professor — I will first answer to that — that it would be dangerous for the progress of the Veterinary science to give them too free admission into the College — because it might give a disgust to the residing pupils from their application to the Veterinary Medicine and many of them would change their mind and apply themselves to the anatomy of the human body , thinking that it would be more honorable for them to cure the human species than Animals , this happened in France and the best Veterinary pupils are now Physicians and Surgeons to the human species — this prejudiced ideal would inculcate itself into the minds of young men , the more so as the Veterinary Science is still in its Infancy in this Country , and in an abject state , for this reason it would be equally dangerous to permit residing pupils to attend medical or anatomical lectures , of the human body , or to frequent Hospitals : Therefore a certain distance from the Town would be more useful than otherwise for the progress of the Veterinary Science . |
| 9 | There are 27 women deacons in the Chester Diocese at the moment and diocesan spokesman , Rev Tim Barker , said he anticipated that many of them would want to be ordained . |
| 10 | I began to wonder how many of them would buy Tremayne 's book . |
| 11 | The sheet metal workers , who cut sheet metal to the design of the drawings of the part of a car , earned 2s 6d ( 12p ) per hour , and did a lot of overtime at one and a quarter time , which means that many of them would have been earning £6 or £7 per week , and be well over the arbitrary divide of £4 suggested as a line for the divide between the working class and the middle class . |
| 12 | How many of them would have thought of the Turin option ? |
| 13 | On the other hand there is nothing in the Labour amendment which many of them would oppose anyway . |
| 14 | If groups of , say , 50 to 100 people were to be asked how many of them would like to see some deregulation on Sunday , only about half would put up their hands ; the other half would want to keep Sunday special . |
| 15 | Writing on the boys ' club movement in 1904 , W. J. Braithwaite thought that ‘ itis dangerous for the club and the boys that many of them should have tasted too much of freedom ’ . |
| 16 | Many of them must have ended up in a British soldier 's mess-tin . |
| 17 | Apart from the household staffs , many of them must have stayed on since it was the houses themselves that were dissolved , not their economic base , the estates . |
| 18 | Many of them must have died in infancy and childhood , but we have no data on deaths before 1951 . |
| 19 | As for the countryside , the main complaint of the wage labourer was of underemployment and at certain seasons of the agricultural calendar many of them must have wished they did not have time on their hands . |
| 20 | But now many of them can stand up in front of the gate and talk back to the managing director . |
| 21 | Yeah , but I wonder how many of them can answer these questions |
| 22 | How many of them can dance sing and act ? |
| 23 | Spiders are close relatives of scorpions and many of them can deliver a painful bite . |
| 24 | A point of typographical interest is that the printers of broadside notices and ballads continued to use the old ‘ black letter ’ or Gothic founts of type long after they had been discarded in favour of the Roman letter for printed books ; so that many of them can take us back in spirit and atmosphere to the Gutenberg Bible and Caxton working at the Sign of the Red Pale in Westminster . |
| 25 | Not surprisingly , they all reach a stage when they must try to manage their growth and their organisation more rationally or many of them will burn out and their company could get into deep administrative trouble . |
| 26 | But hotels and garages along the route say that if the bridge is n't repaired soon , many of them will go out of business . |
| 27 | Perhaps on this occasion , many of them will do the sensible thing and decide to stay at home . |
| 28 | Many of them will want to be cared for at home . |
| 29 | ‘ Since they will be given preferential treatment this time around , it 's likely many of them will want to put more into it . |
| 30 | ‘ Since they will be given preferential treatment this time around it is likely many of them will want to put more money into it . ’ |