Example sentences of "many [prep] them [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 All of them add to the quality of life of the residents , and many of them may also help you enjoy your work too .
2 ‘ instant yen ’ and ‘ the searches for Shamans in the desert ’ , but unfortunately he offers his readers no Good Cult Guide and one feels that many of them may continue to go astray .
3 Although incomes had to be given , assessment of the personal property of ‘ spiritual men ’ was not stipulated , and since the clergy were customarily taxed more heavily than the laity a good many of them may have been less than forthcoming .
4 The industrialists of the water-power age , out in the open country , had put up houses for their workpeople — as at Cromford , Mellor and Styal , where many of them may still be seen — which were , in Professor Ashton 's words , ‘ not wanting in amenity and comfort ’ and even possessed a certain quality of design and proportion .
5 The greatly increased life expectancy of both men and women today means that the children of many of them may themselves be entering old age when they , the parents , are really in need of care .
6 While some landforms may have been so produced , it is possible that many of them may be relict forms subject to little later modification .
7 In future , these matters will not be decided here because responsibility for many of them may be transferred to Europe . ’
8 Not all the decisions in a given period can be carried out , since many of them may erroneously anticipate and depend upon other decisions which are in fact not being made .
9 We know that many of them may well have undergone long and arduous journeys , having travelled many miles across many frontiers and indeed possibly even across many continents just in order to be with us here tonight .
10 Forty eight and and presumably many of the people who are perhaps seventy drawing pensions , they may not have even paid in thirty years themselves , I mean they may be many of them may not have been around for that period of time .
11 And although many of them might be poor in some ways , that did n't mean they had no money to spend .
12 They have reported what they know about the number of minke whales in the sea , but have made no recommendation as to how many of them might safely be slaughtered — or ‘ harvested ’ in the unpleasant terminology of the whalers .
13 But the British Menopause Society is warning that many of them might not be taking it for long enough .
14 Their habitations would be huts , which they would have to build themselves , in desert land away from the few cities ; their diet would be healthy and sustaining but it would be monotonous , and they would have to do without delicacies which many of them might have become used to in the Diaspora .
15 Not only are the proposals right in themselves , but many of them might win support at Maastricht .
16 If there 's insufficient space for the army of fans , many of them might end up on the beaches , which the Italian police have expressly forbidden .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 I began to wonder how many of them would buy Tremayne 's book .
21 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 .
22 ( 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 . )
23 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 .
24 Many of them would be as much a record of the times as of TV 's part in them .
25 Moreover many of them would be red , because globular clusters are very old , and their leading stars have evolved into the Red Giant stage .
26 Such large nests and so many of them would be in the way on the earth .
27 How many of them would have thought of the Turin option ?
28 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 ’ .
29 He had received several enthusiastic offers , though he wondered how many of them would really turn up in church .
30 If underground outfits had to go legal many of them would go bust , their profitability often lying in their clandestine nature .
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