Example sentences of "many [prep] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she opened the door just like I wanted and I shot through to the living room only to encounter more men in dark clothes , too many for me to tolerate . |
| 2 | There are far too many for me to examine them all properly in this article . |
| 3 | Equally , there are too many for them to have been purely phonetic or syllabic . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's too many for us to frighten away with a show of force . ’ |
| 5 | The colour microfiche is accompanied by a catalogue detailing each image and statements by all the artists , many of them written specifically for this publication . |
| 6 | In their factory , so essential to the prosperity of Trazior — to its trade and supply routes forever preyed on by vicious nomads — the Valences lived their whole lives , many of them adapted by surgery to their specialised tasks . |
| 7 | The trouble was , there were too many of them packed into this room . |
| 8 | Well they had a particularly bad time many of them lost absolutely everything and now they 're protesting cos the Lloyds people are only coming up with a nine hundred million pound rescue package that might give them some of them back half of what they invested . |
| 9 | Because they were overthrown and the others were taken off into captivity into battle life , and what a life they had , the one of slavery , so at that time because they took no note , because they were destiny instructions to Jehovah for his word and again want to see , they had eyes , but they just did n't want to see it they knew , all the whys and wherefores and what the responsibilities were , but they did n't measure up to them and because of that many of them lost their lives , and if they did n't they were taken into captivity , Jeremiah four , in verse twenty two , again another prophecy sent to them exactly over the same message , the same reasons describes to them as being a , er people that is foolish and of me they have taken no notice Jeremiah four and verse twenty two . |
| 10 | We had made an early start that morning and after a long stiff climb up a bare hillside entered a forest of wild olives and massive juniper trees resembling cedars , many of them festooned with lichen . |
| 11 | The Victorians spent countless hours on trains and passed many of them reading books . |
| 12 | Education provided a good example of the accommodation feminists had to make in regard to scientific theories of sexual difference and the ambivalence many of them felt about the whole issue . |
| 13 | Perhaps if I could deal with Mr 's point first though cos I 'll just refer you I think to paragraph three point two , three year accident record there , fifty five injuries , seventy one casualties , many of them taking place on the distributor road network . |
| 14 | Many of them enjoyed their work experience in Picardy so much they are going back for more in their summer holidays . |
| 15 | Moreover , many of our tied houses are relatively small pubs , many of them serving villages and rural communities . |
| 16 | This book established Kitto as a writer , and in the following years , he wrote a number of books — many of them based on the Scripture , including the work which is still regarded as the best of its kind , Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature . |
| 17 | A number of laws , many of them based on principles of ‘ obscenity ’ , ‘ indecency ’ and ‘ offence ’ are designed to prevent the distribution or display of homosexuality in the same way as porn is constrained . |
| 18 | Then came more accidents — we seemed to have a large number of accidents in the 1950s and early 1960s and many of them finished up as public inquiries . |
| 19 | An ordinary freedom-fighter or revolutionary — and there were a great many of them operating in the Holy Land at the time — might well have won popular support for his actions , but could not have been acclaimed as the Messiah . |
| 20 | I wondered how many of them glanced down as they processed in their finery into the castle for tea with the Queen . |
| 21 | Someone had told me that no less than twenty people had left the Church after my speech , many of them to join the Raelian Society , a group that exists to set up embassies on earth for alien intelligences wishing to make contact with earthlings . |
| 22 | On the far side they came to the Sierra de Quareca , hills which , though not particularly high , did give the party — many of them clad in heavy metal cuirasses and leg-armour — some relief from the steamy , insect-ridden heat of the lowlands . |
| 23 | Until a few years ago most wood dyes tended to fade in strong sunlight , but now many of them contain transparent iron oxides , which do not fade and can be used on interior and exterior woodwork . |
| 24 | Many of them contain basic ( alkaline ) salts , such as sodium bicarbonate or trisodium citrate . |
| 25 | It is particularly important to check about vaccinations because many of them contain live virus . |
| 26 | The second is that comparisons between the brains of living mammals show that many of them contain specializations that are not present in our own brains . |
| 27 | Only 1,000 people work on long-term — usually one-to two-year — secondments in the UK at present , many of them arranged by London-based secondment broker the Action Resource Centre . |
| 28 | I imagine that the brunt of this will be borne by younger voters , many of them voting for the first time , who possibly do not realise that in addition to voting they must also pay poll tax . |
| 29 | This downward mobility is now being reinforced by educational changes that operate not only to prevent the most disadvantaged children from benefiting from the increased degree of upward social mobility , but also prevent many of them entering the labour market at all . |
| 30 | Simulators have come a long way in recent years and today many of them use screen addressing to update the information . |