Example sentences of "but [prep] many [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surgery may have prolonged the careers of some Hollywood actresses but for many people it is not the panacea they may believe it is . |
| 2 | Birds respond to a wide range of sounds but for many years it was assumed that their low-frequency hearing was poorer than ours . |
| 3 | Tinka 's home is now in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia , but for many years she lived in Johannesburg , where she established the Medau Society of South Africa . |
| 4 | Slightly convex with fleur-de-lys on a shield , the lettering is very ornate but after many hours I read it as AVE MARIA GRAVIA . |
| 5 | But like many people we had sustained injuries and we had finally become disillusioned about ever becoming fit . |
| 6 | ‘ Plans fail for lack of counsel , but with many advisers they succeed . ‘ |
| 7 | Similarly , the victims of pollution may be readily apparent in some cases , but in many others they may be dispersed and diffuse . |
| 8 | The courts will not allow the taking of evidence abroad to develop into a ‘ roving enquiry ’ , but in many jurisdictions it is not essential to name in advance all the witnesses to be examined . |
| 9 | They rushed into a series of Bills which , it was alleged , would open monopolies to competition , but in many cases they simply changed a state monopoly to a private monopoly . |
| 10 | Inevitably they will not suit every need , but in many cases they can be adapted , used as models or as a source of ideas for a teacher-produced worksheet , which can target particular objectives and be tailored for a particular age or ability range . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's difficult to estimate the cost of making your house safe if it is found to have a serious problem , but in many cases it will be around £1,000 . |
| 12 | Occasionally official syllabuses contain very detailed advice for teachers and in one case ( Botswana ) , a separate , loose-leaf file has been prepared for each grade , but in many cases it is the teachers ' guide , or even the pupils ' text which provides the real plan from which the teacher works . |
| 13 | Most homes now have some form of lost insulation , as a result of Government campaigns and gradually improving Building Regulations , but in many cases it will be less than the current minimum requirement for new homes , of a 100mm thick layer of glass fibre or a similar insulant . |
| 14 | A new kitchen could cost thousands of pounds , but in many cases you can transform your old one into a dream kitchen at very modest cost by re-using the carcasses , and simply replacing the doors , drawer fronts and worktops with new ones from Distinctive Doors . |
| 15 | He is likely to be very bright and to find learning easy but in many cases he will be coached and encouraged by a parent ( usually the father ) in that one direction so that he becomes a prodigy or a ‘ genius ’ at mathematics . |
| 16 | In most insects they appear externally as mere slits but in many Diptera they form intracranial tunnels . |
| 17 | But in many respects they are very different , and they come from different times : they are separated from one another by three-quarters of a century . |
| 18 | These pressures I have described , both internal and external , invited change in almost every aspect of the curriculum , but in many respects they were also conflicting . |
| 19 | Hampden Babylon is a book about the sordid and seedy underbelly of Scottish football , but in many respects it is also a book about Scotland itself . |
| 20 | It was designed as a safety net , but in many respects it has now become a high wire for farmers . |
| 21 | Spelling mistakes do not usually stop your writing being understood , but in many contexts they carry undesirable connotations which you may wish to avoid ( " does n't read " , " illiterate " , " badly taught " , etc . ) . |
| 22 | It 's been known for some time that dioxins are created when chlorine is used to make paper white , but in many situations it 's been difficult to find substitutes . |
| 23 | But in many ways it 's been enlightening , exciting , stimulating , and above all enjoyable . |
| 24 | But in many ways you 've always been a very old-fashioned girl . |
| 25 | Connolly 's observation is often taken to confirm him as a better judge of literature than of politics , but in many ways he was remarkably prescient : Home was indeed ‘ honourably ineligible ’ for the new age which was dawning in the Tory party . |
| 26 | My perennial thoughts of transsexualism and suicide never left me , but in many ways I was happier than I had ever been in my life . |
| 27 | But in many ways I think I 'm okay . |
| 28 | But to many others it is a way of life with roots so deep in the national culture that any government at all respectful of individual liberty would be politically reckless to try to pull them up . |
| 29 | The excuse for the 1928 ‘ infirmary pie ’ was to raise £1,000 to endow in perpetuity a bed at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary , but to many people it was really a somewhat belated celebration of the end of the 1914–18 war . |
| 30 | In the USSR and Japan , national teams are also pursuing the dream , but to many observers it seems to be just that — a dream that may not be fulfilled . |