Example sentences of "as [verb] many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As happens many times throughout , and frequently in footnotes , one sentence of Boswell 's from the after-dinner conversation contains the seeds of a novel — even , potentially , a saga : . |
| 2 | This is quoted and endorsed by Meyers ( Homosexuality and Literature , 148 ) , who goes on to describe Lawrence 's Aaron 's Rod as possessing many components of ‘ a homosexual novel ’ including ‘ an intense hatred and fear of women , who are characterised in two male gatherings as threatening , frightening and repulsive ’ , and ‘ a symbolically castrated hero who is afraid to let himself go in heterosexual love and runs away from his three women ’ ( p. 154 ) . |
| 3 | Jesus is portrayed as violating many taboos relating to women . |
| 4 | In my excited state , as the trees close over my head , I see this kind of thinking , this desire to reshape the world into something reassuring , as having many applications . |
| 5 | When they 've got over the shock , most are mainly concerned for their daughters ' welfare , and give them a lot of support , as illustrated many times in the accounts that follow . |
| 6 | In may respects , my shop is just the opposite , although I certainly have a health foods section , as do many delicatessens . |
| 7 | I fear , as do many others , that the start of the rot was the forced repatriation of the Vietnamese from Hong Kong . |
| 8 | As do many insects , spiders , beetles , ants , butterflies and moths . |
| 9 | Before 1967 Israel assumed , as did many others , that since the Palestinian Arabs had not achieved nationhood they would soon assimilate into the Arab host countries neighbouring Israel , if the latter had half a mind to allow it to happen . |
| 10 | Japanese mainframe makers pursued this ‘ IBM-compatible ’ strategy , as did many entrants to the micro-business , from Silicon Valley to South Korea , by producing ‘ IBM clones ’ . |
| 11 | Rather than regarding the relationship as essentially adversarial , as did many observers twenty years ago , the issue is now one of searching for ways to allow the two parties to co-operate to promote their mutual interests . |
| 12 | Poor Sarah , as she lived into her seventies , can hardly have felt like much of a torch-bearer ; during her childhood in the 1780s and '90s Titfords had been thick on the ground — as had many families she now saw no more . |
| 13 | It has been converted to rhd at some point after manufacture ( as have many others , which if done properly is of no consequence ) . |
| 14 | The 110 we have , had its well known make of tyres replaced at less than 10,000 miles due to sidewalls breaking up ( as have many others , with punctures from steel tyre cords penetrating the tube inside the tyre ) . |
| 15 | It would be agreeable to pass it by , as have many inquiries into determinism pertaining to our decisions and actions . |