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

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1 In many subtle ways our care demonstrates that we believe the ageing process makes independent action impossible .
2 Thus , in many post–1923 paintings there is a heightened realism that borders on the photographic , as is evident in the large-format flower paintings she began to making in 1924. 18 By so changing the apparent concerns of her art , O'Keeffe intended to end criticism that centered speculations about the meaning of her imagery around the fact that she was a woman artist expressing emotions that had not visual precedents — which was , of course , the way Stieglitz had promoted her from the beginning .
3 At that time , the mullahs were the country 's principal teachers and in many rural areas they had become considerable men of property , taxing the people and buying land for themselves .
4 Competition with gas was non-existent in many rural areas which lacked gas supplies but was at its most fierce in new urban housing estates .
5 Given the lack of development in many rural areas it is not surprising that the dependency of rural workers on agriculture for employment has remained , nor that so many school-leavers take a job on the land even though they have no intention of remaining there if the choice to leave should present itself .
6 In many rural areas it has therefore been usual for local farm workers to work on the land ‘ man and boy ’ .
7 Consequently in many liberal democracies there are far fewer socialist or radical mass media outlets than left-wing voting strength in the electorate might suggest ( Harrop , 1984 ) .
8 In many criminal cases there are victims — casualties of assault , rape , theft or fraud .
9 Petrological observations show excess feldspar in many basaltic lavas which is most easily explained by crystal settling .
10 The postmentum remains undivided in the Thysanura , Isoptera and some higher orders but in many Orthopteroid insects it is divided transversely into a distal mentum and a proximal submentum .
11 In many developing countries it is virtually unknown .
12 We lack general agreement on the formulation of objectives , and in many subject areas there is great dispute as to how far , if at all , we can test whether some quite crucial objectives have been achieved .
13 The other side to the critique , again a common one in the UK , is that public agencies by no means serve the public interest alone but instead indulge in many other activities which appear to benefit the regulators ' Interests rather more .
14 What is likely to happen of course is that er in the year two thousand and ten when we do need these fast reactors , we 'll be buying in French or Japanese technology as we 've done in many other areas which is all rather sad really .
15 Elections of a kind are held in the Soviet Union , and in many other countries which are , officially or unofficially , one-party states .
16 Moreover , what we can know , such as our duties and obligations to each other and to God , is just what we need to know ; and in many other cases we have beliefs sufficiently well-founded for the purposes of our everyday life .
17 In many other cases it may be difficult to decide whether a signal is or is not deceptive ; but if the signal concerns something over which the animals are competing , it may evolve by an arms race of deception and the discovery of deception ; but if it concerns something over which the animals are co-operating , it may evolve to become more accurately informative .
18 Today in many large organizations we 'll see three generations of desktop delivery mechanism , the old dumb terminal , the thirty se tw thirty two seventy dumb terminal for instance .
19 In many generalized insects there is also a median , unbranched apodeme or spina which arises from the intersegmental spinasternum .
20 Well now : this decision that all children must learn two languages , forgetting the thousands in many English cities who already have a home language , with a literature of its own .
21 In many poorer countries they long to send out workers , yet are frustrated through lack of resources .
22 Some of those who did not possess a faith in God which was proof against all adversities now saw that the great hope of a relief force reaching them , which had so far buoyed them up , was an illusory one ; even if a relief now came , in many different ways it would be too late and not only because so many of the garrison were already dead ; India itself was now a different place ; the fiction of happy natives being led forward along the road to civilization could no longer be sustained .
23 In many Free Churches I fear that awe is an unknown factor ’ and ‘ some who sneer at elaborately worked altar-cloths would do well to cultivate the spirit of those by whom they were presented . ’
24 But in many real-life situations it is not possible to collect information about every case — or the whole ‘ population ’ , as we call it .
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