Example sentences of "[pron] can [verb] [prep] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | His cutaway heel is world-class stuff , and with a patent in the pipeline I can think of a number of major manufacturers who 'll be after him for a slice of the licensing action . |
| 2 | Now in those circumstances , and I can think of a number of schools where that works very well , the governing body is a very powerful force , for links out from the school into the outside world , not only into business and industry , but also into the L E A , and it 's actually quite a lot of schools quite like to have a County Councillor on their governing body because it gives them an in to the L E A at a policy-making , or an individual decision-making level . |
| 3 | erm unfortunately , it might sound extremely erm severe , but I can think of a number of people I 've met in my experience as a pastor who really and frankly could not help themselves and need to be treated almost like children again and made to receive help , and there are quite number of those sort of characters , unfortunately , on the streets of Oxford . |
| 4 | courses and a BA Performing Arts ( Music ) course which can lead to a number of professions which require music specialization including teaching and performing , and a Graduate Diploma course in drama for would-be teachers and performers . |
| 5 | Further , some very salient Liverpool dialect phenomena such as syllable-final aspirated fricatives ( e.g. [ bu ? h ] ‘ bush ’ ) are probably best described not quantitatively , but qualitatively in terms of the articulatory setting peculiar to the dialect , which can account for a number of superficially quite diverse phonetic characteristics . |
| 6 | er whereas if you had said positively that I 'm sure you can think of a number of |
| 7 | You can index on a number of fields to enable faster retrieval . |
| 8 | This we think we can discount for a number of reasons : first , the magnitude of the risk aversion would need to be rather large for the result ( that an increase in a is good ) to be reversed ( particularly when the reservation value is generally above the mean price ) ; second , subjects were paid proportionately to their total profits over 16 decision periods ( 32 decisions ) so that any risk aversion would already have been significantly averaged out ; third , the subjects appeared to be trying to make as much money out of the experiment as possible ( implying that they were behaving in a risk-neutral fashion ) ; fourth , the majority of the responses to two questions on the questionnaire indicated risk-neutrality . |
| 9 | One can think of a number of cases which are coming before the courts where there 's been a lot of publicity and I 'm sure that the legal teams involved in those cases will be studying this judgement er and will be considering whether or not those principles ca n't be applied to their cases . |