Example sentences of "many [prep] [pers pn] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of them would do perfectly well in disciplines which are less idiosyncratic than English and have a more obvious international currency , like linguistics or economics or marketing . |
| 2 | As I stood and watched them pass by I wondered how many of them would be killed or seriously wounded by this time tomorrow afternoon . |
| 3 | The sheet metal workers , who cut sheet metal to the design of the drawings of the part of a car , earned 2s 6d ( 12p ) per hour , and did a lot of overtime at one and a quarter time , which means that many of them would have been earning £6 or £7 per week , and be well over the arbitrary divide of £4 suggested as a line for the divide between the working class and the middle class . |
| 4 | I began to wonder how many of them would buy Tremayne 's book . |
| 5 | It may perhaps be objected that the distance may prevent the pupils of the Hospitals from attending the Lectures of the Veterinary Professor — I will first answer to that — that it would be dangerous for the progress of the Veterinary science to give them too free admission into the College — because it might give a disgust to the residing pupils from their application to the Veterinary Medicine and many of them would change their mind and apply themselves to the anatomy of the human body , thinking that it would be more honorable for them to cure the human species than Animals , this happened in France and the best Veterinary pupils are now Physicians and Surgeons to the human species — this prejudiced ideal would inculcate itself into the minds of young men , the more so as the Veterinary Science is still in its Infancy in this Country , and in an abject state , for this reason it would be equally dangerous to permit residing pupils to attend medical or anatomical lectures , of the human body , or to frequent Hospitals : Therefore a certain distance from the Town would be more useful than otherwise for the progress of the Veterinary Science . |
| 6 | ( The adult readers might like to list those books , and other reading matter , for which they have a particular affection or which they feel have made a contribution to their lives , and then check to see how many of them would be considered to be of the highest literary worth . ) |
| 7 | There are other places she could go to , of course , but so many of them would be clubs in which she would be expected to communicate and contribute at a time when all she wants is occasionally simply to be ‘ with ’ people and to be able to depart when she wishes without giving offence or disturbing the gathering . |
| 8 | Many of them would be as much a record of the times as of TV 's part in them . |
| 9 | Moreover many of them would be red , because globular clusters are very old , and their leading stars have evolved into the Red Giant stage . |
| 10 | Such large nests and so many of them would be in the way on the earth . |
| 11 | How many of them would have thought of the Turin option ? |
| 12 | As Claud Mullins , a London magistrate , commented on the plight of separated women in 1935 : ‘ Day by day as I watch the women who come into court on summonses for arrears — probably the least attractive of all Police Court work — I sometimes wonder whether after all many of them would not have done better to put up with the ills they had , rather than to have placed their faith in court orders ’ . |
| 13 | He had received several enthusiastic offers , though he wondered how many of them would really turn up in church . |
| 14 | If underground outfits had to go legal many of them would go bust , their profitability often lying in their clandestine nature . |
| 15 | If groups of , say , 50 to 100 people were to be asked how many of them would like to see some deregulation on Sunday , only about half would put up their hands ; the other half would want to keep Sunday special . |
| 16 | Although I can not go into too much detail , I would like to look at players between the ages of 15 to 17 , as they will hold the key to the future , but I do n't think too many of them would be ready in time for the 1995 European championships in Dublin . |
| 17 | ‘ He was left in no doubt many of them would rather pack up and leave than sign these new leases and face the financial problems that appear to go with them , ’ he said . |
| 18 | We work with about 60 women a year , and I know many of them would genuinely say that at the start they were unemployable , that they could have gone back to drugs , ended up back in prison , but they did n't because Clean Break was there at the right time for them , to give them the opportunities they needed . |
| 19 | On the other hand there is nothing in the Labour amendment which many of them would oppose anyway . |
| 20 | There are 27 women deacons in the Chester Diocese at the moment and diocesan spokesman , Rev Tim Barker , said he anticipated that many of them would want to be ordained . |
| 21 | Erm of the conversations you had during the week about how many of them would you say you recorded ? |
| 22 | NEVER PUT ANYTHING ON THE RAILWAY LINE — I do n't think many of you would be stupid enough to do this but believe me it has been done and still is done quite often . |
| 23 | How many of you would watch it ? |
| 24 | I 'm sure many of you would prefer to get your weekly social started rather than listen to me . |
| 25 | Come on people : How many of you would turn down such a contract if it were offered to you . |
| 26 | Well it 's and how many of you would want the break ? |
| 27 | How many of you would have actually switched off by now ? |
| 28 | If the choice facing us were legal , clean , decently performed abortion or none at all , no doubt many of us would be hard put to it to vote for the former ; but in fact the choice is between the legal , clean sort and backstreet self-induced efforts of the Ottey 's Pills variety . |
| 29 | Otherwise how many of us would be here ? |
| 30 | I think that many of us would prefer to see falling rolls as a chance to reduce class size , thus giving pupils a better chance of carrying out practical work in pairs rather than in groups of three or even four . |