Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [verb] [prep] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the past few years , relationships between the CNAA and the polytechnics have developed in a number of ways , including the changes in validation arrangements described earlier in this chapter . |
| 2 | In the last few years , however , relaxations in Institution rules and instances of surveying practices becoming public companies have coincided with a number of applications being made to the RICS for permission to practise by way of a corporate structure with limited liability . |
| 3 | Generally , builders stand to gain in a number of ways from encouraging self-employment in the construction industry . |
| 4 | Any proposals to alter the situation faced by older workers have to work at a number of levels : developing new social roles ; using legislation to change attitudes ; improving work prospects ; raising income levels ; increasing the effectiveness of health and social policies . |
| 5 | It is also interesting to note how relations have worsened with a number of élite institutions which have been identified with paternalist and consensual values — universities , the Church of England , the senior civil service , the BBC and One Nation Conservatism . |
| 6 | MYSTERY glass explosions have occurred at a number of UK buildings constructed during the last decade . |
| 7 | In addition to a host of talented players from the Italian First Division , which in effect makes the student representative side the understudy to the full Italian XV , the selectors have drafted in a number of seasoned internationals ( nine in all ) , among them classy Milano centre-cum-fly-half Massimo Bonomi and World Cup forwards Massimo Giovancili , Roberto Saetti and Carlo Cecchinato . |
| 8 | An officers report to Monday 's committee says standards have fallen over a number of years . |
| 9 | Reactions to the riots have concentrated on a number of key variables that are said to characterize the localities in which the riots have occurred . |
| 10 | Hence , local authorities have to deal with a number of different central government departments , but the extent to which this is the case varies from issue to issue . |
| 11 | The research councils have responded with a number of initiatives and programmes which emphasises selectivity and applications-relevance in the funding of research . |