Example sentences of "in many [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In many rural areas it has therefore been usual for local farm workers to work on the land ‘ man and boy ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In many developing countries it is virtually unknown . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In many poorer countries they long to send out workers , yet are frustrated through lack of resources . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | But in many real-life situations it is not possible to collect information about every case — or the whole ‘ population ’ , as we call it . |