Example sentences of "[noun] who have [vb pp] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | An earlier draft had been rejected by the King who had requested a number of minor alterations . |
| 5 | ( Friend of woman who had had a number of strokes . ) |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |