Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [verb] in a number " in BNC.

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1 Since St Pierre , though , nuees have been observed in a number of different eruptions , and in a great many of them they are linked with the construction of a lava dome .
2 Flows of people from metropolitan to non-metropolitan areas have been observed in a number of developed countries in recent years , and the term ‘ counter-urbanization ’ has been applied to this process ( Berry 1976 ; Bryant et al .
3 The effects of reducing sleep on sleep patterns have been studied in a number of relatively short experiments , and one which went on for two years .
4 Since then the calculations have been repeated in a number of different forms by other people .
5 The specific claims of Marx and Braverman in this regard have been contested in a number of recent writings .
6 Throughout history , otherwise unmarked minuets have been written in a number of time signatures , including 3/4 , 6/8 and 3/8 .
7 Musical stimuli have been employed in a number of dichotic listening experiments .
8 Geoffrey Smith of Windrush tells me that copies of the Windrush Island Guide to Northern Cyprus , until a couple of months ago the only in-depth guide to that part of the island , have been defaced in a number of London bookshops .
9 Signs based on colour-coding systems have been used in a number of libraries , for example at Hatfield Polytechnic Library , England ( one of the pioneers in this field ) and Chalmers University Library , Sweden .
10 The Parkinson and Garman and Klass estimators of volatility have been used in a number of the empirical studies considered below , e.g. Grammatikos and Saunders ( 1986 ) , Chamberlain ( 1989 ) , Board and Sutcliffe ( 1990 ) and Serletis ( 1992 ) .
11 Such programs have been used in a number of curricular areas .
12 Proliferative abnormalities in normal looking colorectal mucosa are believed to represent an early phase of colorectal carcinogenesis and have been found in a number of conditions associated with a high risk for these malignancies .
13 O7 ppm although naturally high concentrations of mercury have been found in a number of locations , including Lake Windermere where mud dating back to the last century contains 0.7 ppm . ’
14 In reality these terms have been interpreted in a number of different ways .
15 Comparable reforms have been introduced in a number of other states and a movement is growing to amend the Constitution of the United States to place comparable constraints on federal government activities .
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