Example sentences of "many [noun pl] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Where staffing allows , many schools/colleges try to ensure that this year contains a large element of new material , rather than a stale repetition of past experience . |
| 2 | Many geniuses have foundered due to their lack of direction ; ultimately they could not find a way of remaining geniuses throughout their life . |
| 3 | In part , no doubt , it has been instilled by the critics ’ informed taste for early music and their sense that many performers have trivialized it while ignoring , in the process , a growing body of evidence for the a cappella performance of medieval and of ( much ) Renaissance Mass music , of late-medieval polyphonic songs from France and Spain , and of medieval monophonic lyrics of the most serious and ambitious kind . |
| 4 | A good many herbs have coloured leaves , and such plants can be distributed in the border to blend with the colours of flowering herbs and to provide a display when they are not in bloom . |
| 5 | In addition , the precipitous decline in the real price of many products has made them accessible to many more people in the developing world . |
| 6 | In turn , this has raised concerns about the viability of such services , and what will happen if many projects have to close while still caring for people . |
| 7 | Many projects have set out to demonstrate that they could set up efficient and effective monitoring systems . |
| 8 | ( Unfortunately , the fact that many projects have produced attractive material which is extremely effective in the hands of some teachers but that has not been widely successful may reasonably be interpreted either as an aim- or a style-mismatch , or as a dissemination problem . ) |
| 9 | Many fonts supplied have the same names as famous typographic faces but unless the typographer 's width tables have been provided for the target device all sorts of trouble can occur . |
| 10 | So many times held up at the Falcon Gate , so many times made to open his briefcase and his empty sandwich box and turn his empty coffee flask upside down when he was anxious to get home , so many times subjected to their questions when he was going about his business visiting other corners of the Establishment . |
| 11 | How can I forget Johnny McCarthy whose humour , whose mimicry , whose abundant love of life on so many , on so many times seemed to diminish almost to extinction , those grinding moments of hopelessness . |
| 12 | How many times had come down here with Mickey — dead now , killed in the Rising — to watch the trains come steaming in ? |
| 13 | ‘ Actually , he 's my grandfather too many times removed to count . ’ |
| 14 | How many times did wee Norrie tell us that the only thing standing in the way of recovery was the uncertainty caused by the election when in truth the economy was wrecked after years of mismanagement , the pound weak because our manufacturing base had been destroyed ? |
| 15 | Mrs Stych could many times have wept with humiliation when Donna hastened to tell her of yet another minor car accident in which his ancient jalopy had been involved , yet another girl with whom he had once been seen who was ‘ in trouble ’ . |
| 16 | Over the years we have many times benefited form the advice and support which the CCPR gives so generously . |
| 17 | Many authorities had to respond by modernising their service and providing quick self-service and more popular food . |
| 18 | Many authorities have advocated the practice of setting clear political objectives and compensating the enterprise for the resulting financial detriment . |
| 19 | As part of the growing concept of community care , spelt out in the 1963 Health and Welfare : the Development of Community Care plans , many authorities have recognized that the physically disabled , like the elderly , usually want to retain their independence and avoid entering homes as long as possible . |
| 20 | It seems very doubtful whether the required amount of water ever falls in present conditions and many authorities have attributed such erosion to a wetter period during the Pleistocene . |
| 21 | Many authorities have taken this up with enthusiasm , and there has been an impressive increase in consumer research ( Appleby et al. |
| 22 | Although a complex and costly procedure , over the years many authorities have acquired powers by this means to perform particular functions in their localities : for example , to maintain the external decoration of listed buildings ( Kensington and Chelsea ) , and to operate a municipal bank ( Birmingham ) . |
| 23 | More fundamentally , many courts failed to find a basis for the first resort approach . |
| 24 | Although , as seen above , some courts have persisted in a form of prior categorisation to decide whether natural justice should be applicable , many courts have eschewed such labels . |
| 25 | In practice , however , many investigations have shown that the assumption of uniform stress in a composite ( the Reuss assumption ) is very often close to reality , particularly when semi-crystalline polymers are concerned . |
| 26 | Many widows like to stay in the home of a family member for a few days or weeks afterwards , but if she is going to return to her own home at some time , this should not be delayed for too long . |
| 27 | In the first flush of enthusiasm for the ‘ molecules of memory ’ many experimenters failed to take the precautions necessary to control for such biochemical and behavioural ambiguities , and as a result their research — and with it the entire field — became discredited . |
| 28 | How many mines have closed in the two valleys of the Rhondda ? |
| 29 | ‘ The only reason so many clubs have signed him must be because he 's a good motivator . |
| 30 | The multiplication of agencies as a means to greater bureaucratic efficiency may be objected to on the grounds that one of the major obstacles to the successful implementation of government programmes has been found to be the existence of numerous competing administrative bodies which so many programmes seem to involve because of overlapping policy fields and jurisdictions ( Gunn 1978 ) . |