Example sentences of "and [verb] many [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Subsequently we became lifelong friends , sailed many miles together and shared many adventures . |
| 2 | They clutter streets , smother blocks of flats and deface many homes . |
| 3 | As will be explained later in this chapter , Parliament in the 1970s passed legislation which renders certain exemption clauses absolutely ineffective and renders many others ineffective unless they pass a test of fairness and reasonableness . |
| 4 | ‘ Deemy ’ was interested in Canada , and asked many questions , but there was nothing probing or suspicious in his natural curiosity and quest for knowledge . |
| 5 | When I arrived and asked many people for advice , I was directed to the theatre district , Piccadilly Circus , all the obvious places , as well as some less obvious , whose names I do not know . |
| 6 | When I arrived and asked many people for advice , I was directed to the theatre district , Piccadilly Circus , all the obvious places , as well as some less obvious , whose names I do not know . |
| 7 | Alison says the National Health Service is woefully underfunded and thinks many people would be prepared to pay extra income tax if the money went to health care . |
| 8 | An assembler instruction will correspond to a frequently performed operation and represents many machine code instructions . |
| 9 | But she is confident and daring , friendly and jovial , and tends to assume huge responsibilities and make many decisions — fast . |
| 10 | This means we could take away a lot of your rights and make many decisions about your child without you being involved . |
| 11 | Private membership costs £12.00 per year for residents of the United Kingdom ( £15.00 for overseas residents ) and offers many benefits including : |
| 12 | Phil Marsh , the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre 's Publicity Officer , managed two live radio broadcasts , one from No. 6024 on Sunday morning and met many media people who covered the event . |
| 13 | He conducted sermons , and met many Nez Perce headmen , including Tuekakas , of whom he wrote : ‘ If there is one among this multitude who it may be hoped has been everlastingly benefitted by the gospel , I should believe it is this man ’ . |
| 14 | Thus in years when lemmings and other small rodents are plentiful ( see below ) , owls , skuas , jaegers and other aerial predators fare well and raise many offspring . |
| 15 | Needless to say , before the actual commissioning I got to know the Brooke Marine Yard and staff very well , and made many friends there . |
| 16 | Among many high-level tasks , he drafted an Appeal to the League of Nations on minority rights , and made many approaches to various government authorities through a wide range of memoranda , petitions and similar appeals . |
| 17 | Ceramic materials may take over the role of cobalt in magnets , a move stimulated by the political upheavals in Zaire in 1978 , which forced up the price of the metal and made many manufacturers look for substitutes . |
| 18 | The Merovingian dynasty began as a vigorous force that firmly developed the Franks into a national entity , and made many conquests that extended Frankish territory . |
| 19 | Hughes continued fieldwork on Lower Palaeozoic rocks , caves , and drift deposits in Wales , and made many contributions to archaeology . |
| 20 | Salibi says that the Massoretes had lost touch with the language of the Bible and made many distortions . |
| 21 | ‘ We shall walk barefoot and dusty and alone and suffer many things , and within our sufferings we shall find the pearl of great price , the untarnished joy , the secret treasure , and we shall find it because he is a pure saint and the bravest man in the world and I am a simple singer robed in humility , one risen from the dead ’ |
| 22 | Its summit , however , is the highest point on the popular Three peaks marathon walk and receives many visitors in varying stages of exhaustion ; others , with no such aspirations , will derive little enjoyment from the ascent unless the day is calm and clear . |
| 23 | John Cheere worked in van Nost 's workshop and produced many figures in the same tradition . |
| 24 | 1991 was a fascinating year for tennis fans and produced many moments that will live in the memory for many years to come . |
| 25 | When the Council 's housing policy was first introduced and applied many people in Orkney were alarmed by its implications . |
| 26 | Helicopters , too , are complicated things and pose many problems . |
| 27 | She is a native of Ballinasloe and has many interests including reading , music and television . |
| 28 | There are still traces of hut circles attributed to an Iron Age occupation and , at the time of the Roman invasion , the local patriots , the Brigantes , established a hill fort to resist the foreign legions ; an ancient rampart wall , built around the perimeter of the summit and almost half a mile in circumference , has survived the centuries although it is now crumbled and has many gaps . |
| 29 | State intervention has , however , by no means been kept at bay and has many impulses : the need of many enterprises for state subsidies ( which are accompanied by state controls ) ; increasing income differentials between collectives and regions under market influences ; and the willingness of centralist leaders , concerned about the way consumerism undermines socialist values , to resort to the constitutional right and responsibility of the state to act as the guardian of socialism . |
| 30 | The parish church of St James , dating from the 18th century , dominates the green and has many associations with the lords of the manor , the Creyke family . |