Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] [prep] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professions are sometimes referred to as institutions , but the interesting point is that compared to many institutions they function less on the basis of formal , explicit regulations and codes than on informal , tacit norms and expectations . |
| 2 | A ‘ denial of female sexuality ’ is often seen as the most characteristic manifestation of Victorian prudery and hypocrisy , and indeed it is possible to detect in many of the treatises from the mid-nineteenth century an attempt to challenge its reality . |
| 3 | It is possible to search through many relations , indeed the whole database , and the RANGE command can be used to restrict such access by only allowing users to refer to relations defined in a RANGE statement . |
| 4 | The rise in sea level caused by global warming , for instance , is likely to lead to many deaths and to large changes in population , as a result of flooding . |
| 5 | Something which is liked by the first person you show it to is likely to appeal to many more people . |
| 6 | Despite the relative dereliction of some parts of Kent , the image of the garden of England remains a powerful influence and is likely to figure in many planning battles to come . |
| 7 | If they pursue a rigid analytical approach then it is likely to result in many , if not all , of the constituent elements which comprise the ‘ if X ’ question being labelled as questions of law . |
| 8 | It is hard to think of many foreign governments the KGB has overthrown as , for example , the CIA did in Chile . |
| 9 | It is hard to think of many instances where Russia has been able to outsmart the West politically as the result of its intelligence operations . |
| 10 | It is a style that is unlikely to appeal to many people , and is not even encouraged by NACAB or GLCABS . |
| 11 | Speech recognition , on the other hand , as featured in science fiction and typified by the HAL computer in 2001 — A Space Odyssey is unlikely to appear for many years yet , if ever . |
| 12 | Good thatch is difficult to obtain in many parts of the world , and in the Indian State of Kamataka peasants now have to buy bamboo at 1200 rupees a tonne on the free market ( about £80 a tonne ) whereas the paper industry is still able to get it at 15 rupees a tonne ( £1 ) from the government 's reserved forests . |
| 13 | Unfortunately one is obliged to wade through many pages of extraneous material in order to discover and savour these sidelights on the management of a Midland shooting estate , and in this reviewer 's opinion the book can not take the place of J. Miller 's Practical Gamekeeping . |