Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] a number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By late afternoon we 'd stopped in at a number of bars along the pier . |
| 2 | In Chapter 4 I argue that the concept of women 's ‘ domesticity ’ which is used loosely in sociological writing needs to be broken down into a number of more precise concepts before much sense can be made of women 's similarities/differences on this dimension . |
| 3 | This basic question may be broken down into a number of smaller ones . |
| 4 | All extended proportional series can be broken down into a number of linear series of cells , as in figs. 5.6 and 5.7 , and this is the form in which we shall study them . |
| 5 | The exposition is more easily understood if broken down into a number of stages . |
| 6 | These five factors can in turn be broken down into a number of subsidiary aspects to produce a specific number of questions to be answered in identifying the likely longer-run attractiveness of the industry . |
| 7 | Using the technique of functional decomposition , a very complex problem can be broken down into a number of fairly complex parts and then further to less complex parts until , at the bottom level , all the parts are fairly trivial and therefore easy to understand . |
| 8 | These factors can be broken down into a number of sets for the purposes of different sections of the UCTA , and probably form the most useful framework under which to analyse its effect . |
| 9 | ( c ) Management problems Where a practice is carried on in a number of different locations : ( 1 ) rivalry between different offices will naturally occur and is generally healthy , but the partners should not overlook the potential for a fissiparous tendency to develop . |
| 10 | John Simpson had also been appalled by the competition entries for Paternoster Square and , at a very late stage , had managed to get hold of a copy of the brief — — to provide office space and car parking — and had sat down with a number of colleagues to draw up a scheme of their own . |
| 11 | He has been mixed up in a number of shady deals in the Middle East . |
| 12 | One firm has come up with a number of ways to find letterbombs , before they find their target . |
| 13 | In 1982 the Institute of Hydrology carried out trials on the Trannon , and in 1986 was able to come up with a number of constructive lessons to be learned from this sorry story . |
| 14 | we have joined with other organisations and persuaded the World Bank to pull out of a number of projects that threaten to destroy forests . |
| 15 | In an attempt to cure this problem ( and sell more skegs ) the manufacturers have come out with a number of ingenious shapes . |
| 16 | About 1,000 people , or 10 to 15 per cent of the workforce , have left since Mr Habgood 's arrival , while Bunzl has come out of a number of low-margin and loss-making businesses . |
| 17 | Following the end of cloth-making , the mill buildings were let out to a number of tenants , providing some employment . |
| 18 | As part of the work associated with the preparation of the first Road Safety Plan , an analysis of road accident data was carried out on a number of areas eligible for Urban Aid grant . |
| 19 | Co-operation in taxonomic computing will be carried out with a number of institutions , nationally and internationally . |
| 20 | The First World War gave organized public relations in Britain an opportunity to be used on a national scale and official publicity was carried out by a number of organizations . |
| 21 | The work of the Land Registry is carried out by a number of District Land Registries located throughout the country . |
| 22 | This process of identification and analysis may be carried out in a number of ways , for instance : * by Using intuition based upon an interpretation of existing knowledge of the market ; * by Using any of the wide array of market research techniques , based on internal sources of information about the market , and field research . |
| 23 | [ 2 ] During 1991 and 1992 , these initial recommendations were greatly revised and reorganised , largely as a result of work carried out in a number of small specialist work groups , set up following a detailed technical review meeting held in November 1991. [ 3 ] A second draft ( P2 ) began publication as a series of electronic fascicles in April 1992 , and is due for completion in July 1993 , following a further technical review in May , and presentation to the TEI 's Advisory Board in June . |
| 24 | He accepted the devotion of a prostitute who anointed his feet with costly perfume , and he dined out on a number of occasions with tax collectors and sinners , who represented the social outcasts — the ‘ untouchables ’ of the day . |
| 25 | A Middle East dollar market exists in Bahrain where euro-dollars ( and other currencies ) are intermediated in by a number of Arab and non-Arab banks . |
| 26 | It contains the practical experience of the members of MAS built up over a number of years of carrying out a wide variety of MAS assignments . |
| 27 | The Peckham trucks are said to have given the better ride , but being built up from a number of separate parts , required more frequent maintenance than the Brill trucks , whose main component was a solid forging . |
| 28 | Expatriates ' salaries are generally built up from a number of separate elements starting with basic salary . |
| 29 | This cultural context which affected attitudes towards the city and how it might be planned was built up from a number of sources and expressed in the literature of the day ( Timms and Kelley. 1985 ) . |
| 30 | Proust is also exceptionally aware I think of a , of the , the , the complex nature of reality , a reality built up in a number of layers , so that his sentences are made even longer than might otherwise have been the case , by the introduction of successive subordinate clauses , in which he seeks to qualify as precisely as possible what he is saying . |