Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] have [vb pp] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | An old and convivial haunt which has undergone a number of recent changes but outwardly at least still retains much of its fishing port atmosphere . |
| 2 | Its main ideologist is Boris Kagarlitsky , a young Marxist who has written a number of books that have been published abroad but not yet in the USSR . |
| 3 | His houses are always monuments of excellent craftsmanship , but as one eighteenth-century critic who had seen a number of them observed , although ‘ all of them [ are ] convenient and handsome … there is a great sameness in the plans , which proves he had but little invention ’ . |
| 4 | This was only a temporary setback to the Long March veteran who had survived a number of purges over previous decades when ‘ redness ’ was valued more than ‘ expertise ’ . |
| 5 | In this and the previous chapter we have discussed a number of groups of computer instructions , oriented to the principal data-types and operations for which the computer is designed . |
| 6 | Over the last few months we 've had a number of queries from hobbyists concerning fish which they have bought for their community tanks , which despite advice from their dealer , have turned out to be most unsuitable for such a set up . |
| 7 | Over the past 18 months we have launched a number of products offering opportunities for existing customers . |
| 8 | In the following paragraphs we look in more detail at the reasons which have encouraged a number of large manufacturers to start making or make greater use of temporary workers , at the terms and conditions under which these temporary workers are engaged , especially the forms of contract which are used , and at the characteristics of the temporary workers themselves . |
| 9 | Although the final decision was with Cabinet , it would be most unlikely that they would overturn the views of a committee which had spent a number of weeks going through the proposals almost line by line — particularly given that half the Cabinet were on the committee and the Prime Minister was in the chair . |
| 10 | They have organized a powerful and disciplined committee which has won a number of major concessions from the prison authorities and which , with the help of the Committee of Mothers and other human rights organizations , has kept the existence of political prisoners in the public eye , to the discomfort of the government . |
| 11 | Since that point we have taken a number of steps to reduce students ' reliance on benefits . |
| 12 | Yes but of of course we 've got a number of estates er around the Mansfield er but we have made inquiries we 've er er we 've made appeals through the press and the radio as you well know . |
| 13 | An earlier draft had been rejected by the King who had requested a number of minor alterations . |
| 14 | In the less demotic phases of my career I have given a number of lectures , most of them described as the Disraeli lectures , some as the Macmillan lecture and some even as the Macleod lecture . |
| 15 | ( Friend of woman who had had a number of strokes . ) |
| 16 | We do occasionally get calls from people who 've dialled a number listed in one of the ads only to find that it 's wrong — an old lady in Dunfirmline insisting that she 's definitely not selling a Malmsteen Strat — or perhaps giving the ‘ unobtainable ’ tone on a number which does n't exist . |
| 17 | In the early part of his career he had made a number of smaller , better films such as The Stripper ( 1963 ) and The Best Man ( 1964 ) , before embarking on bigger and more portentous projects such as The War Lord ( 1965 ) and The Planet of the Apes ( 1967 ) , both with Charlton Heston baring his teeth and chest ; Patton ( 1969 ) , an ambiguous biopic about a modern war lord ( for which he won Best Director Oscar ) ; and Nicholas and Alexandra ( 1971 ) , a tedious and simplistic Tsar-trek . |
| 18 | In the past we have held a number of fund-raising events in the area . |
| 19 | now let's erm just go on to something perhaps that 's more to the point , you were asked on a number occasions er what information was given and so for and when , er can you see in fact on some of these documents that the brochures are indeed dated ? , just look at er please , you can see that it 's a printed brochure it 's got a number of er additions and then we look at page thirty seven boldly state you have that as twenty sixth March eighty five , do n't you ? |
| 20 | Subramaniam was a veteran Congress ( I ) member who had held a number of high-level portfolios during Indira Gandhi 's premiership in the early 1970s . |
| 21 | In pursuit of this goal they have developed a number of specialized techniques . |
| 22 | In the meantime he had designed a number of small Episcopal churches . |
| 23 | In 1794 she published her Collection of Poems and Fables , by which time she had suffered a number of domestic calamities , including the death of a child and apparently the imprisonment of her husband . |