Example sentences of "which [vb past] [adv] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the fund-raising starts to redevelop the famous high-rise East Terrace , which housed so many of the 75,031 that saw Charlton 's Cup tie with Aston Villa in 1938 , and the temporary West Stand . |
| 2 | In the vital years before a child was apprenticed he or she could be captured from the streets , confirmed in God-fearing ways and inoculated against those habits of sloth , debauchery and irreligion which propelled so many of the lower orders to crime , prostitution and heathenism . |
| 3 | The intention and the vow itself were no cynical charade , for Edward had already been on crusade and shared the piety and the military enthusiasm which impelled so many to the Holy Land . |
| 4 | It must surely have been that quality , suggestive of significance , which drew so many writers and designers to vernacular styles , in both the later Victorian and the Edwardian periods . |
| 5 | Whether the attention it received was due to its classic looks or the fast drying coating of mud which reached on to the roof was difficult to judge , though I suspect , it was the butch overcoat which caught so many eyes . |
| 6 | And then there were the free pop concerts which attracted as many as a quarter of a million hippies . |
| 7 | Christine believes the problem is much bigger than anyone believes and cited a recent study which claimed as many as one in three children suffer some kind of sexual abuse . |
| 8 | But it also contained films by Hitchcock dealing with British stories that avoided the sort of grandiosity which afflicted so many of the pictures pitched at the US market , and had as much wit as The Private Life of Henry VIII . |
| 9 | I know of people who have fled the most awful oppression in other countries in later fascist regimes , such as that of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile , which killed so many . |
| 10 | The problem is to strike a balance between , on the one hand , the harsh poverty which still dominated the lives of most working folk , the repulsive physical environment and the moral void which surrounded so many of them , and , on the other , the undoubted general improvement of their conditions and prospects since the 1840s . |
| 11 | Let us walk with a visitor through the city , a veteran of the Second World War who values it as one which was almost unscathed from the bombing which devastated so many European cities . |
| 12 | The country stations also enjoyed a great range of styles , but they escaped the process of repeated renewal which overwhelmed so many large city and town stations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 13 | It was these mineral riches which enabled so many Latin American railway companies to build grandiose stations for a passenger traffic which formed an insignificant part of their revenues , to flatter a national vanity which demanded a new ‘ civic excess ’ in the period . |
| 14 | Burton 's Welsh and hungry and visceral sense that everything had to be grabbed or it would be lost forever would be reinforced at this critical stage in his life by the fatalistically hedonistic mood which infected so many . |
| 15 | They were fumbling cheerfully , when the sudden excitement which brought so many conference-goers from their beds , frustrated further progress . |
| 16 | Dr Jaeger may have been considered an eccentric , but the Rational Dress Society , which won so many adherents at the International Health Exhibition in 1884 , continued the battle on broader lines . |
| 17 | Another factor is lower house prices — people in Northern Ireland tend not to have the massive mortgages which crippled so many householders in England . |
| 18 | After five weeks the Austrian federal troops , which numbered as many as 7,500 at their peak , left the border area in early August . |
| 19 | He ( among others ) perceived adolescent labour as an obstacle to efficiency not only because it lacked knowledge of employment opportunities and the ability to distinguish between the merits of different occupations , but also because its inherent ‘ adaptability ’ was ‘ wasted ’ ( always a key notion in National Efficiency circles ) by the ‘ haphazard ’ nature of the transition which left too many youths in dead-end jobs and failed to enrol them in any form of further education . |
| 20 | No drug company would ever contemplate issuing a medicine which had so many unproven and untested facets to it . |