Example sentences of "it [vb past] many [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He noted that when Harris sampled at weekends it found many more Tories than on weekdays . |
| 2 | The desire to recover it drove many black peasants to support the nationalist guerrillas in the war against white minority rule . |
| 3 | She believes that it prevented many Labour supporters from registering on the electoral roll ( in the hope of avoiding payment ) , thus depriving Mr Kinnock of a large number of votes . |
| 4 | Boenninghausen had previously produced a repertory but it contained many more remedies under each heading than Kent 's repertory , which is easier to use . |
| 5 | It took many long years for the twelve swords to emerge from the workshops of Alaric , long years even for a Dwarf , and , as it proved , more than the lifetime of a man . |
| 6 | And it converted many more economists to the liberal , anti-interventionist wing of their trade . |
| 7 | The erosion of consensus politics overtook local government as it did many other areas of public life . |
| 8 | The sentencer regarded the case as an exceptional one The Court considered that it had many exceptional features which would allow a sentencer to reduce the sentence which would otherwise have been imposed , but it was seldom in such a case that a sentence of less than seven years would be appropriate . |
| 9 | Even more importantly , it supplied many mid-Victorian feminists with a critical perspective on existing social relations . |