Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each case a number of issues arose , some of which were resolved , as they attempted to modify their classroom practice . |
| 2 | Make sure that each tape is clearly labelled for every text on it , and give each text a number . |
| 3 | To test this hypothesis a number of stream patterns are generated using the program described above and a count made of the number of streams with no tributaries ( these are called first-order streams ) , then the number of streams formed by the junction of two first-order streams ( these are second-order streams ) and so on . |
| 4 | On 17 July 1429 , less than ten weeks after relieving Orleans , and having in the meanwhile brought back to French rule a number of towns , including Troyes where the fateful treaty had been sealed in 1420 , Joan stood in the cathedral at Reims watching the dauphin as he underwent the rite of coronation , the rite by which his predecessors had become full kings of France . |
| 5 | There are in this force a number of young men who have fixed hours of duty — 8.30 a.m. until 5.30 p.m. with every Sunday off . |
| 6 | It is convenient to consider separately in this chapter a number of other exact solutions that satisfy this same condition . |
| 7 | For the rest of this chapter a number of different problems will be discussed comparatively briefly . |
| 8 | The department also offers in this programme a number of courses in Ancient Near Eastern Religions . |
| 9 | I mean I think it 's , I mean I I have personally asked this question a number of times and pressed for everybody to be paid properly in inverted commas , I E monthly , but this is an assumption about a certain lifestyle and a certain way of budgeting which er I do n't think we have necessarily the right or , you know it 's not necessarily our |
| 10 | During this period a number of alarming forecasts were made . |
| 11 | At this point a number of options are available , using the same technique , a ring of vertical segments can be assembled to give the work depth . |
| 12 | At this juncture a number of assumptions regarding man 's rationally-ordered consciousness were being of course challenged . |
| 13 | Following this seminar a number of avenues have been explored for work with LECs , particularly in the area of ‘ live projects ’ and secondments . |
| 14 | Late last night or early this morning a number of armed men ( to the amount of 30 ) landed at this place , by two boats from an American privateer , as appears from one of the people now in custody … |
| 15 | Although the remit of the Treaty of Rome was relatively narrow in this area a number of directives were adopted covering collective redundancies ( 1975 ) ; employee rights in the event of company takeovers ( 1977 ) or insolvency ( 1980 ) ; equal pay ( 1975 ) ; equal access to employment , vocational training ( 1976 ) and social security ( 1986 ) . |
| 16 | In this area a number of small clothing-manufacturers had set themselves up since the war , migrating out from the East End of London . |
| 17 | For this reason a number of theologians , right up to the modem day , have been profoundly uninterested in the historical debate over Christian origins . |
| 18 | For this reason a number of researchers have attempted to work with speaker variables which are less abstract than social class , teasing out more specific aspects of the relationship between language and social structure . |
| 19 | The University has been allocated from the European Social Fund a number of training grants tenable on the following full-time postgraduate courses : |
| 20 | PERHAPS it was the presence of TV cameras on the company 's Fleet Street trading floor , or perhaps it was a genuine surge of Conservative support , but for some reason a number of staff at Goldman Sachs were instructed to wear blue shirts , ties and braces for election day . |
| 21 | In seeking to understand this aspect of social change and social integration a number of possibilities exist . |
| 22 | Natural language semantics can be defined as the study of the meaning of utterances , and to this end a number of semantic theories have been proposed . |
| 23 | Since Wilcox produced this analysis a number of the independent papers have either closed down — voluntarily or under compulsion — or been taken over . |
| 24 | But , in contrast , they may partly see the ad in this way a number of times during quite a short period . |
| 25 | But this year a number of books have been produced to help you cope . |
| 26 | He then surveyed for a French company a number of railway lines in Italy and Switzerland , before returning to England , where he worked on the Birmingham and Wolverhampton Railway and the Kennet and Avon and Stourbridge canals . |
| 27 | I met at this time a number of adopted children , and realised that the problems we all faced were similar , whatever the child 's colour happened to be . |
| 28 | Since this time a number of staff have been employed to organise appeals and to raise money . |
| 29 | In this section a number of techniques of digital image processing which can be applied to Landsat TM and MSS images are described . |
| 30 | In preparing this pack a number of concepts have influenced our thinking : |