Example sentences of "that [vb -s] [adv] many " in BNC.
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1 | Just what is it about Barbados that produces so many wonderful cricketers ? |
2 | It 's hunger that drives so many ballet students there , not an innate artistic urge . |
3 | Equally to the point , the spectre of drastic economies that haunts so many men and women is often the result of their having only the haziest idea as to their likely income and expenditure . |
4 | But he never succumbs to what Max Scheler termed ressentiment — that mixture of resentment and anger and injured pride that destroys so many , even if it were present in earlier years . |
5 | A highly crafted , hugely sophisticated building-machine that rewrites so many rules of conventional corporate architecture is inevitably hard to digest . |
6 | Their much-derided ‘ copying ’ focus is now seen with more respect as showing a complete absence of the NIH ( not invented here ) syndrome that causes so many Western companies problems when new but not original ideas are introduced . |
7 | Reference Recordings of San Francisco are to be congratulated on persuading the composer himself to conduct for a stunningly recorded disc that fills so many shocking gaps in the catalogue . |
8 | I felt a touch of the sinister that rules so many of the islands ; there was no reason to shiver in that warm spot , but I did , and experienced a slight sense of embarrassment , as though I had been intruding , thinking perhaps not of Tiare but of the great love all those years ago which had produced her : forty years ago when the water was cascading over the same cliff in just the same way as it had today , Princess Tiare 's mother and her lover had bathed in the same secret pool and later , perhaps , made love in the cave behind . |
9 | But the motivation that leads so many historians to work on this material also derives from the status that the theory of natural selection has achieved within modern biology . |
10 | ‘ It was everything that attracts so many people . |
11 | The Back Bowls have only two main lifts so there is none of the mechanical clanking that blights so many resorts . |
12 | Decayed environments invite bulldozers and wholesale demolition — antithesis of the process of replacement over generations that gives so many townscapes in Britain their appeal . |
13 | In a Pastoral letter titled ‘ Our Duties to Those in Need ’ , he wrote of ‘ the disaster that threatens so many miners in our community . |
14 | Even so , a process of gradual denial creeps into Ealing 's output , most clearly represented in Train of Events ( 1949 ) , a film that brings together many of the characters who people post-war movies , only to kill them off or put a stop on their moral infractions . |
15 | It 's the flashiness that makes so many of the British films of the mid-1960s almost unwatchable today . |
16 | It is , then , custom which persuades us of it ; it is custom that makes so many men Christians ; custom that makes them Turks , heathens , artisans , soldiers etc . |
17 | Is it only the recession that makes so many people , especially the young , talk so much about their job prospects ? |
18 | Cutting the small figures to an equal depth , the sculptor found himself forced to consider their three-dimensionality , to think of them as statues ; and it is this probably rather than emulation of the terror-masks that makes so many of them turn to look at us . |
19 | I felt sure that he was more than a little drunk , but his voice never slurred or changed from that flat resonance that makes so many Americans sound as though they are speaking over a loud-hailer . |
20 | We may know these things on an intellectual level , but there 's nothing like having the emotional truth of them brought home on a gut level-none of us are free from some degree of the self-blame that makes so many women feel responsible for their own rape . |
21 | In the immortal phrase that heralds so many climbs , we had just gone for a look . |