Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] [verb] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I had come to know a number of rectors and vicars in the course of my journeys , for reasons which I have mentioned , Eliot questioned me about what he felt might he a mounting danger , namely that the Church might seek to increase by chauvinism what it appeared to be losing in spirituality : and indeed the vicar of my own village had been upbraided by a group of parishioners for not preaching sermons directly furthering the war effort , which Eliot said was tantamount to making him into an unpaid official of the MOI . |
| 2 | Well we 've got to select a number of themes to support a given objective . |
| 3 | The pragmatic theories we have examined leave a number of unanswered questions , and they are in need of considerable extension before they can be fruitfully applied to discourse analysis and language teaching . |
| 4 | Many refugees come to see the medical doctor or the nurse not because they are really physically ill but because of emotional tensions — headaches and unidentified pains , So we have decided to prepare a number of simple pamphlets on mental health and related problems . |
| 5 | ‘ It has been a tough year all round but we have managed to complete a number of objectives and it is important that all employees continue to appreciate the value of environmental and health and safety issues . ’ |
| 6 | Now , centuries later , it had decided to invite a number of experts to advise it on cosmology . |
| 7 | By bending the rules which restricted travel to a few miles around Moscow , he had managed to undertake a number of journeys to such places as Samarkand , wonderfully described in his book , Eastern Approaches . |