Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [verb] by a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have been contacted by a number of my constituents , who work for Clwyd County Council , expressing their concerns about the way they will be represented during the period of local government reorganisation . |
| 2 | The arguments for disabled employment rights in Britain have been fuelled by a number of factors . |
| 3 | But the greatest drop of all is in the value of large limousines and executive expresses , which have been hit by a number of factors — not merely the recession . |
| 4 | These have been followed by a number of local area surveys usually commissioned by Labour-controlled councils and usually focusing on inner city areas . |
| 5 | Models of human information processing have been developed by a number of theorists of this persuasion and the interested reader is referred to the original publications for further details ( Broadbent , 1958 ; 1971 ; Neisser , 1967 ; Sperling , 1963 ; 1967 ; Atkinson and Shiffrin , 1968 ; Turvey , 1973 ) . |
| 6 | Later attempts to define climatically related morphogenetic regions have been made by a number of people , e.g. Peltier ( 1950 ) , Budel ( 1963 ) and Tricart and Cailleux ( 1972 ) . |
| 7 | The best guarantors of quality are rigorous management , open government , access to information , customer participation , clear contracts with the public which have been pioneered by a number of Labour-controlled councils , and the public sector 's absolute determination to provide quality . |
| 8 | And how can anyone doubt , he goes on , that the course of the Second World War might in fact have been changed by a number of accidents . |
| 9 | Bales ' ideas have been adapted by a number of British researchers , notably Rackham and Morgan ( 1977 ) , who have used their version as the basis for improving skills in inter-personal relationships . |
| 10 | ‘ In deciding where to look for additional revenue , I have been guided by a number of principles . |
| 11 | Councillors said they have been approached by a number of people about the poor repair of the road . |
| 12 | While there is some truth in this assertion , there is a broad measure of agreement about the essential components of case management and these have been summarized by a number of authors and practitioners ( Challis and Davies , 1986 ; Kanter , 1989 ; Hunter , 1990 ; Onyett , 1992 ; Moxley , 1989 ; Thornicroft , 1991 ) . |