Example sentences of "[noun] make a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( In 1874 , whilst at her favourite residence at Osborne in the Isle of Wight , Queen Victoria made a number of trips to the post office at nearby Whippingham where she would stay for some hours comforting a dying deaf woman , Mrs. Elizabeth Tuffield , nee Groves . |
| 2 | Consequently , the Civil Justice Review made a number of recommendations which will ensure greater openness in pre-trial proceedings . |
| 3 | The er the county council came forward with these policies as a result of comments that er districts made a number of years ago and perhaps er over a passage of time erm makes at least validity your point but I I remain of the the view that there is in the there is nothing in the county structure plan that sets out the basic objective of protecting the countryside and still feel that 's a valid objective within the structure plan erm within the structure plan er context . |
| 4 | Mark Hewish makes a number of statements about the efficiency of cruise and Pershing II missiles without giving much evidence . |
| 5 | In 1976 , however , the Rent ( Agriculture ) Act made a number of important changes in the system which were hailed as ‘ the abolition of the tied cottage ’ . |
| 6 | Following their disappointing performance against the Dutch on Saturday when they lost 5-1 , England made a number of changes , including dropping captain Richard Leman and introducing a young right-wing triangle of Chris Mayer , Russell Garcia and Rob Hill . |
| 7 | The judge made a number of findings . |
| 8 | The National Assembly on Sept. 20 adopted a constitutional law making a number of changes to electoral procedures . |
| 9 | Foucault makes a number of general points about the panopticon . |
| 10 | The image of the housewife as a cabbage makes a number of appearances in answers to the question about writing housewife on a form ( it is mentioned by twelve of the forty women ) . |
| 11 | Comparing the present offering to Antenor 's French furniture collection ( sold at Sotheby 's New York in 1986 for a total of over $8 million , a record for a single-owner sale of French furniture in the U.S. at the time ) , Millerand points out , ‘ Antenor Patiño made a number of gifts of French furniture to the Louvre and to Versailles , as well as to the museum in Lisbon . |
| 12 | At the April 8 meeting the US participants made a number of specific proposals for reducing the trade deficit including tax changes , incentives for foreign investment , and reductions in cross-shareholdings by related companies . |
| 13 | FoE made a number of recommendations on taxes , incentives and greater spending on research ( including the government 's Energy Efficiency Office , which , remarkably , given the nature of the times , saw its budget restricted to £15 million a year for two years in succession — a loss in real terms ) . |
| 14 | The editorial made a number of remarkably pertinent points that were vindicatory for London Labour 's Lesbian and Gay Working Party . |
| 15 | This often entails the link person making a number of additional visits to the school . |
| 16 | My father made a number of water-colour sketches of them that fascinated me as a boy but have since disappeared . |
| 17 | Until Mr Kempton died in May 1989 , the inspector made a number of unsuccessful efforts to arrange to interview Mr Kempton and his wife . |
| 18 | His decision prompted de Klerk to make a number of Cabinet changes to take effect on Dec. 1 . |
| 19 | Working for patients makes a number of structural and organisational changes — including the appointment of FPC general managers — which are to be welcomed . |
| 20 | The commission makes a number of recommendations on the preservation of peatlands in Britain . |
| 21 | In an attempt to allay some of these fears , the government made a number of concessions during the report stage of the Bill : |
| 22 | Phil Gates made a number of valid points in ‘ The gene genie ’ ( November ) , but there are also some important omissions . |
| 23 | It was necessary for the Council of the Law Society to make a number of regulations in connection with this process . |
| 24 | Their most recent party was near Northampton , where police made a number of arrests for drugs charges . |
| 25 | The report made a number of recommendations which ‘ add up to proposals for restructuring the way we organise housing provision in this country ’ . |
| 26 | A Radio 5 spokesperson said : ‘ The internal report made a number of suggestions for restructuring network radio and only one of them involved a major change to Radio 5 . |
| 27 | In addition , the Report made a number of other detailed recommendations which were designed to encourage an increase in technological studies . |
| 28 | The report makes a number of comments on other matters , for example in relation to the resource and teacher training implications for English in the National Curriculum , and the need for non-statutory guidance for teachers based on its observations . |
| 29 | The TGAT Reports made a number of detailed recommendations about matters to be considered by individual subject working groups . |
| 30 | As I have emphasised three times , the previous Select Committee on Health and Social Services made a number of pleas to the Government not to get us into the position that we are in now . |