Example sentences of "[noun] and have [vb pp] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | AMES has been involved in important educational work and has published a number of pamphlets on the social and working conditions of women , within a general analysis of their double oppression . |
| 2 | Both bodies have been able to comment on draft PPGs and MPGs and have secured a number of improvements to their content . |
| 3 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that , since it was established in 1988 , the Serious Fraud Office , under the direction of Barbara Mills , has done an outstandingly good job and has brought a number of successful prosecutions for fraud ? |
| 4 | The battlegroup had been in the field for two weeks and had practised a number of operations of war . |
| 5 | Alex Redpath and Willie Gribben , two workaholic officials , have traced all previous 20 programmes of the finals and have ear-marked a number of players who have gone on to greater things at international , inter-provincial and senior club level . |
| 6 | They broadcast regularly for the BBC and have made a number of CDs , with many more in the offing . |
| 7 | As the heir of TGAT , SEAC is now considering appropriate assessment arrangements and has commissioned a number of consortia to produce SATs . |
| 8 | We are closely monitoring the development of the virus , its current and likely future impact on mortality rates and have produced a number of bulletins summarising the results of our work . |
| 9 | Again these changes have been in response to legislation and have taken a number of forms . |
| 10 | England had lost fewer players than most countries to World Series Cricket and had won a number of rubbers as a result but , when the armistice was signed , England 's limitations were soon exposed . |
| 11 | ‘ At last judgment day has come , ’ said Naim Kordic , a Bosnian doctor who heads the Sarajevo crisis centre and has treated a number of Muslim rape victims . |
| 12 | But in due course I discovered that the local historian had done very little actual firsthand gathering of data himself : he was a wealthy man and had employed a number of impecunious schoolteachers to be his ‘ research assistants ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ The Committee takes a strictly non-political approach to the issues and has proposed a number of amendments to ensure , in particular , that Britain complies with its EC obligations . |
| 14 | We have been taking slow steps towards that goal and have faced a number of barriers along the way . |
| 15 | His work has been the subject of seven one-man exhibitions , has been featured as a lead article in the British Journal of Photography , included in many other shows and has received a number of prizes ( including the South Bank Festival Photography Competition 1990 Portfolio ) . |
| 16 | By the end of March the Iraqi armed forces had suppressed the southern rebellion and had recaptured a number of northern towns from Kurdish guerrillas . |