Example sentences of "which in many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When C f is fortis ( ‘ voiceless ’ ) and C i lenis ( ‘ voiced ’ ) , a context in which in many languages C f would become voiced , assimilation of voice never takes place ; consider the following example : ‘ I like that black dog ’ . |
| 2 | A source of particular vulnerability for the agencies is that in its reorganization of the water industry the 1973 Water Act gives them responsibility for the management of the great majority of sewage treatment works , which in many areas are themselves significant — often principal — sources of pollution . |
| 3 | According to the report , the overall net downgrading can be explained in part by the increased monitoring effort of the NRA and by the hot and dry summers of 1989 and 1990 , which in many areas reduced the amount of water available to dilute the inputs of contaminating waste . |
| 4 | The Court of Appeal rejected the Council 's defence on the ground , not that the ticket changed hands too late , but that it was not a contractual document ; for no reasonable person would expect to find contractual terms in a document which was no more than a receipt for him to prove that he had paid and which in many instances ( i.e. in the absence of the attendant ) would not change hands until long after the contract was made . |
| 5 | Governments wish to try and deal with problems of regional imbalance , which in many instances may be of a long-standing and chronic nature . |
| 6 | It is instructive to start with the USA , which in many senses is the country on which much of the methodological , legal , technical and institutional aspects of conservation policies of other countries have been modelled . |
| 7 | Below 5oC movement and metabolism of L3 is minimal , which in many species favours survival . |
| 8 | The old idea of marketing , which in many cases was little more than selling , focused on making a better product that was easier to sell . |
| 9 | Substantial increases on the previous year were made by 446 Branches , 138 Branches sustained their last year 's contribution , which in many cases had already been a record , and only 43 were significantly down . |
| 10 | Farmers , while including all gradations of responsiveness within their ranks , do in many cases have a deep feeling for the land which they see every day , and which in many cases was shaped by their fathers and grandfathers , and which they would like to pass on to their children . |
| 11 | From this collection of information , which in many cases will need to be in considerable detail , a job description can be written . |
| 12 | Warples ' ( 1980 ) adaptation of the Lopatin ( 1971 ) method of calculating source rock maturity , though open to theoretical objections , gives results which in many cases accord well with observed hydrocarbon occurrences , and has provided the petroleum geologist with a ready rule-of-thumb means of taking the time factor into account . |
| 13 | Secondly , admission to a psychiatric unit has presumably been the result of distress which in many cases will persist after admission . |
| 14 | Routine , manual operations , which in many cases machines can do , are dying out and being replaced by skilled , technically orientated jobs which often involve either computers or the channelling of information by some other mechanism from one place to another . |
| 15 | Cattle stealing , a crime which was often carried out at night and for which in many cases there was no true evidence , was particularly noted for testimony delivered in a set manner . |
| 16 | The Act requires the resignation notice and statement to be delivered to the company 's registered office — which in many cases may well be the address of its resigning auditor ! |
| 17 | It is the replacement of this differentiation of state and society by a more complex web of interrelated systems which has led many lawyers to seek alternatives to positivist approaches which in many cases rely on the liberal model of parliamentary democracy as their underlying assumption . |
| 18 | Because this information is not widely enough known , many individuals or families are not claiming help to which they are entitled and for which in many cases they have actually paid through their national insurance contributions . |
| 19 | Thus large companies and boards of nationalised industries were provided with enormous financial assistance enabling ( or rather persuading ) them to base their reorganisation on designated development areas which in many cases they would not otherwise have chosen , for reasons of both private and public benefit when judged over the longer run [ Knight , 1974 ; Moore and Rhodes , 1973 ] . |
| 20 | In our sort of high-technology business , the high profits tend to be made over a fairly limited time , which in many cases appears to be getting shorter . |
| 21 | These are collocational ties which in many cases defy literal interpretation , and have to be understood metaphorically . |
| 22 | A major problem is that , even in very rural districts , much of the council 's stock will frequently be in the largest settlements , which in many cases have not been included under the rural designation . |
| 23 | The new capitalism of the impersonal multidivisional enterprises and the financial institutions deploying employees ' saving has produced a specifically capitalist ‘ socialisation ’ of production , embodied in social forms and practices which in many cases will have to be deconstructed before socialism can be developed . |
| 24 | Neither did the would-be owners want or need the staffed apartments and small group homes funded by Massachusetts ' department of health , which in many cases offered no degree of permanency . |
| 25 | He modernized their Stratford works , using largely American labour-saving machines and equipment which in many cases enabled process costs to be reduced five- to tenfold . |
| 26 | In the current cost version , capital is measured in terms of its current value , which in many cases is its replacement cost . |
| 27 | Comet debris , as its name suggests , is derived from comets , and much of this debris lies in orbits that are far more eccentric than most of the asteroids ' orbits , and which in many cases carry debris far beyond Jupiter . |
| 28 | But we must not forget the great flysch troughs which were developed in Alpine Europe through much of Cretaceous time and which in many cases continued on into the Tertiary . |
| 29 | Thus , there are parish boundaries defining land attached to a particular church ; more recently , civil parishes , which in many cases only vaguely now relate to religious parishes , have been defined for administrative purposes . |
| 30 | To fill the seats you have to drop the fares , there 's a price war going on , especially in the markets that Virgin 's involved in , price wars mean very low fares , fares which in many cases will not cover the cost of flying the aeroplane . |