Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] [adv] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the wide range of modules available it is possible to put together many combinations to suit individual programmes . |
| 2 | It is interesting to see how many stars you can count inside the ‘ bowl ’ of Corona. 7 × 50 binoculars show at least 15 . |
| 3 | Reading the old files , it is interesting to note how many well-known Institute figures have served at one time or another on the TAC . |
| 4 | He plays the evil Dr Arcane , whose daughter loves the Thing , and it is painful to watch so many bad lines falling on untilled soil . |
| 5 | It never crosses Hoving 's mind that Ingres is an artist by whom it is impossible to own too many works — nor , for that matter , that the ‘ uninspired portrait of the Marechal Count Gerard , which to me summed up the pomposity of Bonaparte 's court ’ ( one of the Ingres mentioned in Hoving 's list ) is in fact a fine , signed and dated , late work by Jacques-Louis David ! |
| 6 | Because LEAs are not required to provide data on units to the DES as they are , for example , in respect of special schools , it is impossible to say how many teachers work in them . |
| 7 | It is impossible to say how many until we know what the winter will be like . |
| 8 | It is impossible to say how many participated in this operation simply because they were following orders , as obedient soldiers , and how many because they shared Franco 's belief that their role was that of the " saviours " of Spain . |
| 9 | This rate is likely to increase as many of the countries with moist forests — Brazil , Colombia , Indonesia , Kenya , Madagascar , peninsular Malaysia , Peru , Philippines , Thailand , Uganda , Vietnam and all of West Africa and Central America — have high population growth rates . |
| 10 | But the battleground is still being marked out , and Unix is likely to find as many problems and hurdles reaching the lower-end of the market as Microsoft with NT will encounter moving up . |
| 11 | It is great to see so many people turn up and we hope this level of support continues during the cold winter evenings ahead . |
| 12 | ‘ I understand that over 500 students altogether took part in the Guild 's first course and it is good to see so many here today to collect their certificates . |
| 13 | It is good to see so many cheese and Wensleydale lovers quick to defend the same . |
| 14 | In order to fully understand an alarm reaction it is useful to think back many thousands of years to the time of the caveman . |
| 15 | If you are still not sure , just remember that it is better to have too many books than too few . |
| 16 | The situation is unlikely to improve as many areas of Britain prepare to enter what may well be a third consecutive year of drought with groundwater levels remaining low . |
| 17 | As a result it is important to create as many wage-earners and taxpayers as possible . |
| 18 | We therefore believe that it is important to meet as many as possible , if not all , of the consultants before shortlisting , preferably together for a show of unity . |
| 19 | It is alarming to hear how many relatively inexperienced pilots seem completely unaware of the risks they take when pitting their skills against the forces of nature . |
| 20 | With his great experience of Scotland and his wide reading , Hamish is able to bring together many disciplines for a detailed and interlinked account of the districts he passes through . |
| 21 | In addition to all this , Professor Learner has been involved at various times in university adult education , and he takes English Literature courses regularly for the Centre for Continuing Education students , usually , but not invariably , at Friends Centre in Brighton , and I am sure that like myself he is happy to see so many adults from outside the university with us tonight . |
| 22 | That is bad for business , particularly when Iran is desperate to import so many goods because of the war . |
| 23 | It is difficult to estimate how many of these leaflets will be used subsequently but stocks of the 3 leaflets we have already reprinted ( Learning Disabilities , HIV/AIDS and Drugs ) stand at a quarter of the original print order . |
| 24 | It is difficult to estimate how many more of these medieval works may have once existed but have since been lost . |
| 25 | It is difficult to survey so many diverse fields ; Professor Mason has succeeded brilliantly . |
| 26 | It is difficult to say how many of these men were as fortunate as the vicar of Henfield , who in 1209 was to receive all oblations and legacies , a tithe of any new land to be cleared and ‘ tithe of calves , lambs , wool , pigs , chicken , geese , ducks , eggs , honey and wax , mills , fisheries , venison , hemp and flax , gardens , garlick , onions , leeks , and all pot-herbs ’ . |
| 27 | There were numerous poems written about country estates in the eighteenth century , but again it is difficult to know how many of these Leapor read , though she must have read some . |
| 28 | It is difficult to exaggerate how many eggs the French have in the EC-German basket . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , in deciding the equivalence of any pair of programs involving WHILE loops , it is necessary to compare infinitely many pairs of their finite syntactic approximations . |
| 30 | Given certain pieces of data , it is necessary to calculate how many words in the lexicon match this search criteria . |