Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [prep] many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hanging near the Ardebil in the Victoria and Albert Museum is another magnificent 16th-century Persian carpet , known as the Chelsea carpet because it was found in an antique shop in Chelsea , and regarded by many scholars as the most beautiful carpet ever made . |
| 2 | A levels , then , though relied upon at present as a higher education aptitude test , and regarded by many schools and many parents as a test of the academic respectability of schools themselves , are not wholly satisfactory for either of these purposes . |
| 3 | Freddie , who worked for the youth department of the Jewish community in Rosenstrasse , had organised and travelled with many transports , until finally he was warned : ‘ You either stay in England or you 've had it . ’ |
| 4 | The dinner menu is interesting and varied with many dishes incorporating locally caught fish and shellfish and all the vegetables are locally and organically grown . |
| 5 | Composed of an allover arrangement of repeating vases and considered by many experts to be one of the most aesthetically accomplished of all Persian designs . |
| 6 | This gave rise to the growth of the movement for ‘ gifted children ’ , a movement resented and disliked by many schools . |
| 7 | It was given a prestigious launch at a conference arranged by the Bedford WEA branch and attended by many supporters including Messrs. Liddle ( Headmaster of Bedford Modern School and Chairman of Bedford 's WEA branch ) , Baines ( Director of Education for the LEA ) , Glazier ( County Librarian and a former part-time WEA tutor ) , Wash ( WEA District Chairman ) and , of course , Pateman as District Secretary . |
| 8 | The British provide a stable government and a way of life recognised and admired by many foreigners . |
| 9 | The horn was taken home to Laigh Corton where it was hollowed out and used for many years as a bolting or drenching tube for giving medicine to animals . |
| 10 | The house was built at the turn of the century as a country home and used for many years as a shooting lodge . |
| 11 | This neat little gadget replaces the old cotton reel studded with nails and is a quick and easy way to produce knitted cords and braids , which can them be combined and used in many ways , such as trimmings , toys appliqué and jewellery . |
| 12 | Joined the Sidcup Post-Natal class in 1950 and performed in many displays including CCPR Festivals at Wembley . |
| 13 | But consider now a misgiving voiced by Linda Woodbridge and shared by many others : ‘ To me the one unsatisfying feature of the otherwise stimulating transvestite movement is that it had to be transvestite : Renaissance women so tar accepted the masculine rules of the game that they felt they had to look masculine to be ‘ free'' ’ ( Women and the English Renaissance , 145 ) . |
| 14 | Most notable was the ‘ control theory ’ developed by Hirschi ( 1969 ) and utilised by many others including , in Britain , Box ( 1981 ) . |
| 15 | A renovatio monetae does not just happen : it is conceived of , then planned , and executed by many agents . |
| 16 | Over the next days , he was taken round the various offices used by the SIS in London , and introduced to many men , and a few women , with whom he was to work . |
| 17 | The commons also complained about the burden of military service , saying that the cost of wages and equipment for the troops was especially hard to bear because the ‘ land was much grieved and charged by many taxes and other burdens ’ . |
| 18 | Within a few years of Karak Eight Peaks ' fall the Night Goblins had settled permanently in the ruins and split into many tribes based around the adjoining mountains and the tunnels that ran beneath them . |
| 19 | She was careful and troubled about many things . |
| 20 | Firms are bigger and spread across many locations , information on profitability and time spent on different transactions or matters is demanded , time management is the order of the day and speed of information retrieval is of the essence . |
| 21 | All these clubs are extremely active and put on many events for their members . |
| 22 | But even in the nineteenth century , the drawing-room ballads and theatre tunes ‘ of the bourgeoisie ’ were heard and reproduced by many workers , just as ‘ art ’ music was regaled to them by brass bands and in promenade concerts ; while ownership of ‘ folk ’ songs would be a matter of dispute between ‘ peasants ’ , industrial workers , petty bourgeois writers and artisans , and patrician collectors . |
| 23 | The effect on people of different weather conditions ( also known as human climatology ) is taken very seriously and is being researched and studied in many parts of the world . |
| 24 | The most promising compounds were selected and studied in many laboratories , and in the next few years a substantial number of monoamine oxidase inhibitors went into clinical trials , and some into widespread clinical use . |
| 25 | Commenting on her selection , Sue Baring said : ‘ I 'm delighted to have been chosen to stand in a part of the country that I have known and loved for many years . |
| 26 | To some , aid destroyed a nation 's social fabric , resulted in unproductive enterprises and maintained in many instances the existing oligarchy ( ruling class ) . |
| 27 | ‘ All I can say is that it has been tried and tested over many years . |
| 28 | The real tragedy is that there is an alternative which , unlike the poll tax or any property tax , has been tried and tested in many countries in Europe and in America . |
| 29 | It has been rebuilt and extended on many occasions with the passing centuries , much of the present buildings dating from the middle part of the 19th century . |
| 30 | The company was set up in 1970 to sell Courtelle acrylic fibre made in Calais , staffed mostly by French people and managed for many years by a Frenchman , . |