Example sentences of "have be [vb pp] [prep] a number " in BNC.
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1 | The hope might have been based on a number of things . |
2 | The doctor said the injury could have been caused in a number of ways and though the soldier was limping he was ‘ surprised that such a minor injury would cause a limp . ’ |
3 | The lack of reversal when splitting data by accident estimates may have been caused by a number of films with very little peripheral information in them , or it may simply have been an effect of the high correlation between risk and accident estimates . |
4 | It was therefore timely that the RIBA should have been approached by a number of parties interested in publishing the Journal and eventually a deal with The Builder Group was struck by the Institute . |
5 | Clearly , the mill must have been rebuilt on a number of occasions , becoming known from the 1850s as Severn Mill . |