Example sentences of "[verb] in a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | School self-evaluation has been approached in a number of systematic ways during the 1980s — for example , Guidelines for Review and Internal Development in Schools . |
| 2 | The intention is that this theme should be approached in a number of ways , involving a variety of approaches to the photographic medium and the exhibition will also include archive material from the collection of Summerlee and other sources . |
| 3 | The intention is that this theme should be approached in a number of ways , involving a variety of approaches to the photographic medium and the exhibition will also include archive material from the collection of Summerlee and other sources . |
| 4 | Section 18 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 creates a serious offence which may be committed in a number of different ways . |
| 5 | Advertisements appear in a number of different publications , principally the Law Society 's Gazette , which are available in public or university libraries . |
| 6 | She drew in a number of shallow breaths . |
| 7 | The same ideological pattern is to be found within the imperial , educational and commercial programme for " national efficiency " which from the 1890s , drew in a number of prominent figures from the worlds of politics , business , and " letters " . |
| 8 | The schools in the project were located in a number of LEAs including Suffolk , SMP provided the tests , COSSEC the accreditation , and King 's College evaluated the project . |
| 9 | Between exercises he tried to keep his mind occupied in a number of ways : reciting every poem he could ever remember , pretending to dictate his autobiography to an invisible stenographer so that he could go over everything that had ever happened to him in his twenty-one years . |
| 10 | Although these are specialised positions , each team member needs to be flexible enough to work in a number of projects in different areas . |
| 11 | Between 1960 and 1978 , ‘ Food imports rose in a number of countries where agribusiness and local commercial farmers have been most active in modernising the sector ( Argentina , Colombia , Guatemala and Mexico ) ’ ( Armstrong and McGee 1985 : 77 ) . |
| 12 | This strategy has been recommended in a number of structure plans for areas ranging from accessible Hertfordshire and Surrey to remote Cumbria and the Peak Park , although the Secretary of State has later modified some of these policies ( D. Clark 1981 ; G. Clark 1982a ) . |
| 13 | Many utterances can be parsed in a number of ways which are phonemically similar though lexically different . |
| 14 | In the event , the 1559 parliament restored the Henrician anti-papal statutes and the 1552 Prayer Book-albeit modified in a number of important respects- and in 1563 convocation drew up thirty-nine articles of faith , based substantially on Cranmer 's Forty-Two Articles of 1553 . |
| 15 | Pews were also modified in a number of ways in the post-Reformation period . |
| 16 | Peak generation occurs at about 1% reflectance rather than at the 2–3% reflectance reported in a number of published studies . |
| 17 | These are reported in a number of ways : |
| 18 | This is not to rule out the possibility of language convergence in terms of grammar , lexis and phonology , which has been reported in a number of cases . |
| 19 | Serious violence erupted in a number of states during campaigning in April and May . |
| 20 | It is usual nowadays to have the plug-in ‘ jack ’ system installed in a number of locations to provide flexibility and greater choice of instruments . |
| 21 | The Office for Fine Arts in the Netherlands has decided to rid itself of most of the 230,000 works of art which have been left to deteriorate in a number of large depots around the country . |
| 22 | Accumulated errors were to be erased from the holy books , services were to be conducted in a more intelligible manner , sermons were to be encouraged , and scholarship was to be actively fostered in a number of monasteries ; at the same time , new saints were canonized , clergy and laity alike urged to observe the prescribed fasts , and for a brief time the government even went to the lengths of closing the taverns . |
| 23 | He also agreed to hand over to the US government $7,300,000 which was frozen in a number of Swiss bank accounts . |
| 24 | Thus , and again for example , the measure of velocity v=d/t can be instantiated in a number of ways , in car speedometers , lasers bounced off the moon , radar , inertial navigation , astrolabes , etc. and can be expressed in various kinds of ratio scales translatable one into the other , such as feet per second , miles per hour , metres per second , and so on . |
| 25 | The territorial reach of Anton Piller orders has been considered in a number of cases . |
| 26 | The defence has been considered in a number of recent cases in which it has been held that it is to be applied in a flexible and pragmatic way . |
| 27 | This has been considered in a number of recent winding-up cases , notably in Re Abbey Leisure Ltd [ 1990 ] BCC 60 , where the Court of Appeal said that two grounds for preferring a winding-up order to the transfer notice procedure and valuation by a company 's auditor were : ( 1 ) that there was nothing unreasonable in a petitioner with a minority holding refusing to accept a discount being applied to the valuation of his interest in the company , which an auditor was likely to decide on ; and ( 2 ) that there was machinery available in winding-up for the proper determination of claims , which was not available to an auditor . |
| 28 | This occurred in a number of ways , some of which overlap . |
| 29 | Although anecdotally , sphincterotomy has been suggested to improve pain , it is difficult currently to justify such an approach outside the context of controlled trials , particularly as spontaneous resolution of pain occurred in a number of our patients . |
| 30 | He could be depicted in a number of animal forms including the hippopotamus and the crocodile . |