Example sentences of "be that many [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 A side effect of the Act , however , has been that many owners of leasehold property no longer regard such investments as sound and they have voluntarily negotiated the sale of freeholds even where the property concerned did not fall within the provisions of the 1967 Act .
2 Well of course erm the basis used to be that many courts erm had written above them ‘ Police Court ’ and I think some of the older courts where this was sort of carved in stone may still have this above them , but Magistrates have gone to great lengths erm in recent times to emphasise this is not a police court , this is a magistrates ' court .
3 The problem seems to be that many women are having a tough time making their mark higher up the career ladder .
4 and there ca n't be that many authorities left that are n't already involved .
5 Well there wo n't be that many cars off two houses , but I would also like to add
6 It may be that many children will live for years with only episodes of severe illness .
7 What we do know from Allen 's recent survey of part time working in general practice is that many women working in general practice would have preferred hospital practice , particularly paediatrics , obstetrics and gynaecology , and general medicine , if they could have trained in these specialties part time .
8 ‘ The reason a lot of women and men argue without hearing each other is that many women lack the bottom harmonics in their voices , while men do n't allow themselves the upper harmonics .
9 The fact is that many Liberals , and especially those in the local constituencies , adopted something of a larger mentality towards change .
10 The problem is that many shareholders and the public at large may not appreciate that the nature of the history business has changed .
11 The implication of this is that many mergers can be regarded as failures in the sense that they do not attain the gains in efficiency claimed as their justification .
12 The danger is that many businesses are waiting until there is a problem , or even a crisis , to be sorted out before they ask for advice from a solicitor — as said : ‘ Regrettably , lawyers are seen as a cure , not a preventative ’ — and it is the smaller , more vulnerable business that falls into it most .
13 For the water authorities in general the practical significance of consents is that many rivers are now substantially comprised of effluent already discharged subject to consent .
14 A second general point is that many offences of violence have consequences for the victim which extend well beyond any injury caused .
15 The second argument is that many structures of appropriation of surpluses from peasantries and pastoralists which were established during the late colonial period still exist .
16 The second is that many processes simply can not be shut down for the weekends .
17 4.3.4 The assumption made in this section of the Unit is that many teachers will be in a position to collaborate with specialists based in Language Units or in Ethnic Minority support groups , members of which will assume responsibility for teaching the initial stages of English as a Second Language .
18 And from one-eighth of head teachers came frustrations with education authorities : ‘ The surprising thing is that many teachers and schools cope so well , ’ said one .
19 One difficulty with the term is that many contemporaries would never have been prepared to apply the word ‘ culture ’ to the new preoccupations of the masses .
20 A consequence of this approach is that many managers within one division will not know what is important to another division , as well as the overall corporation .
21 The problem with this is that many managers and other PC users have never received formal keyboard training .
22 What is not in doubt is that many members failed to follow the professional path of Section 2f in the dispute , and were thus in breach of the Code of Professional Conduct .
23 The Oxfordshire Health Authority says the reasoning behind the warning is that many doctors ’ may not come across this very rare event in the course of their professional lifetime . ’
24 As in 1949 at Lausanne , so the probability is that many refugees would oppose any surrender of their claim and would continue to struggle for a solution which goes a substantial way towards meeting both their physical needs and their sense of grievance .
25 One salutary reminder is that many writers see ‘ uneven regional development ’ as the norm in western industrialized society ( Smith , 1984 ; Storper and Walker , 1989 ) .
26 The reason that sales have not boomed is that many customers have been disappointed at what robots do for them .
27 ‘ One of the things that we have noted with Frame Relay is that many customers preferred a fixed rate — when you are talking about ATM , I would imagine that some would be interested in flat rate too , but more will be interested in usage based billing ’ , Ms Fitzgerald notes .
28 The skills are there to be bought : the problem is that many farmers have an exaggerated notion of the kind of worker that they can obtain for the money they are willing to offer , as well as an outdated conception of what the farm worker 's skills would fetch in industry .
29 One of the most noticeable features of English is that many syllables are weak ; this is true of many other languages , but it is necessary to study how these weak syllables are pronounced and where they occur in English .
30 Making matters worse is that many companies have not hedged themselves against a rising yen this year , expecting the currency not to trade any higher than around the ¥120 level .
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