Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [prep] many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been paying National Insurance and taxes for many years . |
| 2 | It raises questions about the adequacy of our " adversarial " industrial relations system — particularly in the light of the current economic situation in which enforced redundancies and rationalisations in many enterprises have weakened moves towards consensual models of problem solving . |
| 3 | Coleman and her team studied over 4,000 blocks of flats and a slightly larger number of houses in two areas of London ( Southwark and Tower Hamlets ) and , for comparison , a council estate on the south-east side of Oxford , all in the context of a regard for flats and houses in many settings elsewhere . |
| 4 | In an art museum works can be studied at leisure , and will receive attention from scholars and experts of many kinds . |
| 5 | The extent to which it could have been foreseen and thus pre-empted by a more alert administration , which tried to foresee coming trends , seems to be a matter of disagreement among prison administrators , critics and researchers in many jurisdictions . |
| 6 | He goes to work abroad for Herbert , in the firm in which he had earlier secretly bought his friend a partnership , and returns after many years , meeting Estella , who had been wretchedly married to Bentley Drummle and who is now widowed , in the ruins of Miss Havisham 's house . |
| 7 | Publication was stimulated by the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century revival of interest in folk customs , and accounts from many places throughout the British Isles and beyond are to be found in published collections , often by county . |
| 8 | She secured new buildings ; and her recruitment of distinguished lecturers and performers from many spheres brought intellectual excitement and cultural richness . |
| 9 | The cumulative effect was that by Anne 's reign relations between Dissenters and Anglicans in many communities were no better than they had been in the 1680s . |
| 10 | Such aspects are the equivalent of the offices and warehouses of many organisations today . |
| 11 | This failure underlines the opposition of both some member states and employers to the development of a Community role in industrial relations , and represents the extension to the Community level of the national conflicts between trade unions and employers on many issues . |
| 12 | Essential oils , expensive patent ‘ cures ’ , anti-cellulite creams and tough massage alone can not shift cellulite — especially that which has been in the hips and thighs for many years . |
| 13 | In intellectual terms the predominant note of the revival was undoubtedly counter-revolutionary , despite the quite influential presence of Catholic ‘ liberals ’ and modernizers in many lands . |
| 14 | Kite makers and designers from many traditions have been swapping techniques , and doing battle with their traditional friend and enemy … the wind |
| 15 | There is certainly interaction between these and the processes and responses of many arts : many works are derived from or stimulated by them ; other works articulate new ‘ natural ’ perceptions . |
| 16 | Memoirs , biographies , letters didactic works , newspapers , fiction , ephemera and relics of the changing life-style will be explored to identify the new concerns and responses in many areas of life , intra-family and intra-personal relationships , perceptions of the individual 's obligations to society and state , religions and cultural sensibilities and the image of the good life . |
| 17 | The system is now geared to be accessed on-line , typically through a specialist systems house , such as Donovan Data Services ( DDS ) , and the thick weekly two-volume printed reports familiar to all TV buyers and planners for many years are no more . |
| 18 | Whereas Scots generally write " colour " and Australians write " I know the answer " , Americans generally write " color " and Indians in many circumstances write " I am knowing the answer " . |
| 19 | It has a central place in biology and interconnects with many disciplines , such as biochemistry , molecular biology , microbiology , botany and zoology . |
| 20 | Later , Fleming evidently came thoroughly to enjoy the fame which was thrust upon him , and to travel across the world to receive prizes and honours of many kinds . |
| 21 | Speaking out enabled female purity workers to project a vision of moral femininity , which , though problematic , did address the hopes and aspirations of many women . |
| 22 | It arose , actually , the book , from a course in fact erm for current practicising engineers that we ran here at Sussex and indeed are still running , and engineers from many walks of life , different sort of areas of interest , have attended and I think found a lot of benefit from attending the course , so suppose it 's aim primarily was someone with a background knowledge of engineering in its broadest sense , but |
| 23 | This mattered little while Antarctica remained virtually empty , as it did up to the end of World War II , but became important in post-war years when scientists and technicians of many nations began to work there . |
| 24 | Dr Clarke shows him as an insider addressing officials and economists of many shades of opinion , including some whose position was close to his own . |
| 25 | The orchard was a sight to see when the trestles were set out ( for I could put all ready with no fear of rain on such a day ) with the mugs and platters of many colours , and the brown quartern loaves , and the big pats of butter stamped with a swan , and the slabs of honey-comb dough cakes , gingerbread , cheese , jam and jelly , let alone the ham at one end of each trestle and the round of beef at the other . |
| 26 | I remind the House that we have had a debate on rights , freedoms and responsibilities for many years . |
| 27 | However , the longer-lived caesium-137 would be present in the soil and buildings for many decades . |
| 28 | Tall trees and dense shrubs accommodate nesting birds , abundant flowers provide food for bees , butterflies and hoverflies , heavy crops of fruit and seed support birds and insects , good ground cover shelters predatory beetles , centipedes and spiders , and accumulations of dead and rotting vegetation serve as feeding and breeding sites for slugs , woodlice and insects of many sorts . |
| 29 | After the crops have been harvested , there are good ‘ pickings ’ of seeds and insects for many birds . |
| 30 | Nickel ( 1978 ) and Amieux ( 1982 ) summarized known emission colours and activators for many minerals but , in our present state of knowledge , these data should only be used as a guide . |