Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [vb pp] [prep] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I , we 've been complimented on a number of occasions on that procedure erm by various public bodies . |
| 2 | Thousands of pounds have been collected over a number of years , resulting in items of new equipment that have each been featured in previous issues of Glenpatrick News . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The arguments for disabled employment rights in Britain have been fuelled by a number of factors . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Results from these analyses have been presented at a number of conferences and seminars in the UK and overseas . |
| 9 | ‘ This is particularly true in the area of the trial , which is close to Peldon , where resistant strains of blackgrass have been seen for a number of years . |
| 10 | Since then the calculations have been repeated in a number of different forms by other people . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Many of these prices are established in organised markets ( such as the stock exchange ) which , in recent years , have been freed of a number of restrictions on their activities . |
| 13 | These have been followed by a number of local area surveys usually commissioned by Labour-controlled councils and usually focusing on inner city areas . |
| 14 | The specific claims of Marx and Braverman in this regard have been contested in a number of recent writings . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | Throughout history , otherwise unmarked minuets have been written in a number of time signatures , including 3/4 , 6/8 and 3/8 . |
| 18 | Musical stimuli have been employed in a number of dichotic listening experiments . |
| 19 | ANNIVERSARY celebrations have been held at a number of branches in recent weeks but the biggest birthday of them all — 160 years — was at Hawick . |
| 20 | Campaigns have been held across a number of universities asking this question to raise awareness about AIDS and HIV . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Tear the slip out and hand it in at any Midland branch ; or put it in one of the AutoDeposit machines that have been installed at a number of our branches . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We have been taken through a number of English and Australian authorities , but none I think are determinative of the Secretary of State 's position . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Indeed , linear magnetic anomalies have been identified behind a number of island arcs ; those behind the Scotia Arc in the southern Atlantic Ocean , for instance , indicate that spreading has occurred here over the past 7–8 Ma . |
| 28 | Moreover , so-called inequities have been addressed for a number of years . |
| 29 | Other types of information are also available : information about on-going and recently completed research projects ( the Smithsonian Science Information Exchange ) , information on currently available grants , information on patents , factual information stores — fact databanks — have been produced within a number of subject fields , such as the Chemical Information System for mass spectrometry and crystallography , Toxicology Data Bank ( TDB ) and the Registry of Toxic Effects and Chemical Substance ( RTECS ) for information on toxicity , the Electronics Components Data Bank , and Business International for marketing and statistical data . |
| 30 | ‘ In deciding where to look for additional revenue , I have been guided by a number of principles . |