Example sentences of "many [prep] which [pron] " in BNC.

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1 But for each of the thousand or so explicitly identifiable speech acts there are just as many for which there is neither a name nor a lexical indicator .
2 Such increases as have occurred in on-licence sales have tended to be in products such as lager , cider , wines and spirits , many of which we purchase from outside suppliers in the form of proprietary brands .
3 There are many more services available from our telephone system — many of which we take for granted .
4 We will not entertain it sir , because it raises a whole host of wider and different issues , many of which we in fact considered yesterday in the context of Stockton , if you will recall .
5 Explains Deborah Wintle , an advice worker and counsellor for Liverpool One Parent Families Trust : ‘ There are a number of unmarried mums on Merseyside , many of which we see coming into the Trust .
6 The current in Harrogate 's case significant number of major job losses and we we estimate that those amount to between three and four thousand jobs , er many of which we feel are still to come through the system and are therefore not reflected in unemployment figures of yet .
7 Together they tour the libraries of the world , while their photo archive contains 50,000 negatives , many of which they took themselves .
8 Likewise , Jarmen , a former adviser , expressed concern about the requirement for subject advisers to take on general advisory functions many of which they were not qualified to carry out .
9 It prides itself on this fact and points out in its brochure that while a large group can offer a wide range of services ‘ many of which you are unlikely to want … its investment managers suffer from real problems and conflicts of interest : supporting in-house issues , buying in-house unit trusts , helping its market makers and churning portfolios ’ .
10 But the weekly half-hour I liked best was devoted to the old music hall songs of the ‘ gay nineties ’ , many of which I had heard my father sing .
11 Among them are a surprising ( or is it ? ) number of aeroplanes bearing Cayman Islands letters , many of which I 'll bet have never been near that tax ; haven , the late Cap'n Bob 's pair of liquidator-awaiting , Bermudan-registered Gulfstreams , appropriately VR-BOB and VR-BRM , and a host of N-numbered machines which no doubt the Gatwick-based FAA inspectors looking for illegally operated U.S.-registered aircraft will find enlightening .
12 A a as you and various other people likely said erm a lot of people regarded it as a kind of act of erm racial er disloyalty I 'm not bothered about what race I am , I 'm just bothered about the truth , and the truth is that I think erm Moses was not Jewish well who 's to know , who 's to know erm as I said it 's a fascinating book and if , if you like that kind of detective story approach to history , you , you might , you might enjoy reading it , erm there are , i it raises a lot of other issues , many of which I 'll talk about in the , in the lectures , so I , I wo n't waste time say repeating it all here .
13 Some indication of the immense editorial difficulties that arose , many of which I may say were not solved until the , the Pléiade edition in three volumes of nineteen fifty-four , some of the difficulty I think is hinted at , at any rate , in a recent description of the state of Proust 's papers at the moment of his death , and I quote : ‘ Huge packets of type- and manuscript , the pages festooned with half-illegible addenda , and blackened with savage deletions which had swallowed up entire paragraphs , heaped the ugly little bamboo table that stood near his death-bed , and overflowed from the shelves of the table along the top of the nearby chimneypiece .
14 His conversation had the inconsequence that Chekhov gave to his older characters and it was larded with Russian proverbs , many of which he was suspected of having invented himself .
15 He was also well versed about historic homes , in many of which he had stayed , an interest he shared with Roddy , who even as a boy had been fascinated by pictures and architecture .
16 Thirdly , there are the administrative committees of the college , on many of which there are student representatives .
17 She shared her home with a woman friend and was intensely secretive about her privacy , leaving complicated embargoes in her will on the publication of her letters , many of which she destroyed .
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