Example sentences of "many [noun pl] and the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , questionnaire design calls on many talents and the proposed format requires extensive testing in the pilot . |
| 2 | Some of the larger birds can remain stationary for many minutes and the poses they adopt are all interesting and therefore present easier subjects . |
| 3 | Both rapidly alienated many groups and the Liberal majority was extinguished by 1910 and Labour 's by 1951 . |
| 4 | What does emerge beyond dispute is the primacy of large-scale cloth making as the great national industry and by far the most important export , leaving the rest more or less nowhere , as attested by the massive wealth of many clothiers and the prosperity — albeit a brittle one — of the workers in the major textile districts : high earnings in Suffolk and Gloucestershire at least resulting in a disposable surplus of income which not infrequently enabled artificers to accumulate sufficient goods for assessment , in contrast to agricultural labourers , who seldom had anything but their wages to be taxed on . |
| 5 | The close connections between many padres and the Army has left its shape in the form of the moustache sported by such ministers . |
| 6 | A beautiful wilderness area of mountains , rivers and marshes , it is the home of a great many birds and the most southerly station for some of the real Arctic species . |
| 7 | Together , they brought one another many rewards and the kindness of these old women towards their cats was excessive . |
| 8 | The problem is that many shareholders and the public at large may not appreciate that the nature of the history business has changed . |
| 9 | The effective introduction of the national curriculum will require changes in practice in many schools and the report will assist the teachers concerned in planning the necessary changes . |
| 10 | This is because there are so many domes and the lantern of each is pierced with windows . |
| 11 | She is to be congratulated on the beauty of the pictures , the wealth of information she imparted on so many aspects and the most comprehensive display of books and articles created by Shetlanders . |
| 12 | One of the most intriguing of evolutionary clues is the close chemical similarity between many hormones and the substances that function within the nervous system as neurotransmitters , suggesting that perhaps the second group , the neurotransmitters , may have developed evolutionarily from the first . |
| 13 | Many others have to be removed ( or have been bred out ) during preparation of food , e.g. the raphides of many Araceae and the cyanide-containing compounds in cassava ( Manihot esculenta , Euphorbiaceae ) . |
| 14 | Joanna had been living at Ashby Chase for many months and the serfs knew her well . |
| 15 | It can be seen that these two main goals overlap to a considerable extent , but that emphasis for the end-user lies within a subject area and is therefore closely dependent on subject knowledge , whereas emphasis for the intermediary lies on breadth of knowledge — on the coverage and organization of many databases and the operation of a number of processing systems . |
| 16 | The report acknowledged that education performs many functions and the facilitation of economic growth was only one of these functions . |
| 17 | Mum had bought her meat from The British and Argentine Meat Company for many years and the buying of the Sunday joint was a regular Saturday ritual . |
| 18 | Glass was used exclusively for many years and the lenses were normally ground individually . |
| 19 | The border counties were a cradle of industry for many years and the line 's picturesque position belies its importance to the region . |
| 20 | Boarding out ( or fostering ) has been practised for many years and the Curtis Committee on the care of children strongly urged that this should be the first choice in finding substitute homes . |
| 21 | Of the three Mölln victims two had lived in Germany for many years and the youngest had been born in Mölln . |
| 22 | Fax machines have been around for many years and the obvious benefit of being able to transmit documents and graphics by telephone is by no means newly perceived . |
| 23 | No brief article can do justice to Sir Charles ' many contributions and the influence he has had . |
| 24 | Given the technical and administrative problems that such a method would present in many classrooms and the artificiality which would be introduced , we recommend that tape recording ( audio or video ) should not be used to moderate the assessment of oral performance for SATs ( though it may , of course , be used by teachers or pupils , as part of their planned activities ) . |
| 25 | We feel the savage assault and the cold breath of the infinite that causes this frost of many colours and the stilling of the images , with its beauty . |
| 26 | The Labour Party , the Communists , most Liberals and a few Conservatives actively worked for the Republic , while many more Conservatives , many Catholics and the BUF supported Franco . |
| 27 | ‘ Recently this has become known as sustainable tourism , and the key to it lies in co-operation , and once again the festival is presented to the public through the dedication of many individuals and the commitment of its sponsors . ’ |
| 28 | His poem exemplifies for me the many wonders and the brilliant light of the transcendent ; and also the unity of our soul as it basks in the warmth of that light . |
| 29 | O'Neill 's suspect views were known to many unionists and the conservatives did not have to wait for the fruits of O'Neillism , however timid they may have been . |
| 30 | One can represent the subject " Surgery of the stomach " by combining these symbols , and Ranganathan 's scheme provides , a " preferred order " by which such combinations are to be made ( its explanation would take up many pages and the reader is therefore referred to basic textbooks on library classification , including Needham 's already cited , if he is intrigued to know ) ; the result is L24:4:7 . |