Example sentences of "can [verb] [prep] a number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His cutaway heel is world-class stuff , and with a patent in the pipeline I can think of a number of major manufacturers who 'll be after him for a slice of the licensing action . |
| 2 | er whereas if you had said positively that I 'm sure you can think of a number of |
| 3 | One can think of a number of cases which are coming before the courts where there 's been a lot of publicity and I 'm sure that the legal teams involved in those cases will be studying this judgement er and will be considering whether or not those principles ca n't be applied to their cases . |
| 4 | Now in those circumstances , and I can think of a number of schools where that works very well , the governing body is a very powerful force , for links out from the school into the outside world , not only into business and industry , but also into the L E A , and it 's actually quite a lot of schools quite like to have a County Councillor on their governing body because it gives them an in to the L E A at a policy-making , or an individual decision-making level . |
| 5 | erm unfortunately , it might sound extremely erm severe , but I can think of a number of people I 've met in my experience as a pastor who really and frankly could not help themselves and need to be treated almost like children again and made to receive help , and there are quite number of those sort of characters , unfortunately , on the streets of Oxford . |
| 6 | This can result in a number of different formal patterns , such as ABACADA , or ABACABA , where A represents the recurring material and B , C , and D periods of change . |
| 7 | Subsidence can result from a number of causes . |
| 8 | Those attending can choose between a number of groups , electing to do either music , drama , poetry , collage or banner work , etc . |
| 9 | This we think we can discount for a number of reasons : first , the magnitude of the risk aversion would need to be rather large for the result ( that an increase in a is good ) to be reversed ( particularly when the reservation value is generally above the mean price ) ; second , subjects were paid proportionately to their total profits over 16 decision periods ( 32 decisions ) so that any risk aversion would already have been significantly averaged out ; third , the subjects appeared to be trying to make as much money out of the experiment as possible ( implying that they were behaving in a risk-neutral fashion ) ; fourth , the majority of the responses to two questions on the questionnaire indicated risk-neutrality . |
| 10 | LoadLeveler , then , can work in a number of ways : it can schedule batch jobs on groups of standard RS/6000 workstations , while on the SP1 it can schedule batch and parallel batch jobs . |
| 11 | This can occur for a number of reasons-exposure or the mixing of dissimilar disinfectants or a detergent with a dissimilar disinfectant , the exposure of the disinfectant to certain materials , especially dirt , which chemically or physically inter-react and reduce its efficiency , inaccurate mixing , the use of partially depleted solution or the topping up of depleted solutions . |
| 12 | Bearing in mind the three loci of change described in Section 3.3 ( curricular , extra-curricular and infrastructural ) , we suggest that change or its absence can occur through a number of different processes . |
| 13 | This can occur by a number of mechanisms , among them deactivation of platinum by over expression of thiols and thiol transferring enzymes , by alterations to transport mechanisms and by enhancement of DNA repair mechanisms that excise DNA platinum adducts ( 1 ) . |
| 14 | This can happen in a number of ways . |
| 15 | Workers ' opposition to the constraints of the workplace can vary in a number of different ways . |
| 16 | This imbalance can lead to a number of diet-related diseases . |
| 17 | Throughout the summer the warm weather and increased activity of both pond fish and plants can lead to a number of problems in ornamental ponds . |
| 18 | courses and a BA Performing Arts ( Music ) course which can lead to a number of professions which require music specialization including teaching and performing , and a Graduate Diploma course in drama for would-be teachers and performers . |
| 19 | Figure 4.14(a) shows that one course can be given by a number of lecturers and Figure 4.14(b) illustrates that one lecturer can lecture on a number of courses . |
| 20 | You can index on a number of fields to enable faster retrieval . |
| 21 | The motivation , however , can come from a number of sources . |
| 22 | So that 's just illustrating Gillian 's point is that , information can come from a number of sources . |
| 23 | Possibly the commonest example is the post-flu depression that can last for a number of days or even weeks after the physical symptoms of the influenza infection have cleared up . |
| 24 | Further , some very salient Liverpool dialect phenomena such as syllable-final aspirated fricatives ( e.g. [ bu ? h ] ‘ bush ’ ) are probably best described not quantitatively , but qualitatively in terms of the articulatory setting peculiar to the dialect , which can account for a number of superficially quite diverse phonetic characteristics . |
| 25 | For example , a lecturer can teach on a number of courses and a course may use a number of lecturers . |