Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that case , one way of inflicting a loss of profit in retaliation for reneging on the agreement would be to revert to the NE of the one-shot game , either permanently or for a number of periods sufficient to wipe out the gains from reneging , if that is possible . |
| 2 | Tie on a label carefully to identify the cross or with a number or code to refer to your records book . |
| 3 | It is possible to study for an honours degree in Italian , or for the variety of joint honours degrees set out at the beginning of the Arts section ( with another modern European language , for example , or with a number of other Arts subjects , or with Business Studies ) , and Italian may also be taken as a major or minor part of the MA(General) and the MA ( General Honours ) . |
| 4 | Older Protestants can point to examples of Catholic persecution from their own lifetimes : in Spain under Franco or in a number of Latin American countries in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 5 | The intention , however , as is clear from the document , is to cut back on the number of industrial conferences as that work is being swallowed up by the section conferences and as Robert in seconding the report made perfectly clear , industrial conferences , now called delegate conferences will only be held if there is a negotiating body for which the delegate conference has to frame policy , or in a number of other very limited situations . |
| 6 | Provided your building comes with an adequate floor , you can stand this on a row of substantial timbers , or on a number of carefully laid paving slabs . |
| 7 | The little direct interchange which has occurred has been largely between compatible representatives of broadly similar organisations , e.g. Crofters ' and Farmers ' Unions , or between a variety of environmental and wildlife bodies , or among a number of local history societies . |
| 8 | In law , property may be held either by a natural person , or by a number of such persons , or by an incorporated body such as a company . |
| 9 | Events are shown as a circle or node and are usually identified by a short description of the event or by a number ( l , 2 , 3 etc ) . |
| 10 | However , it is known that for a number of avionic items removed there are a varying number of components which are subsequently diagnosed as ‘ no fault found ’ . |
| 11 | On the one hand , the antisemitism of ‘ anti-immigrant ’ fascist parties might be seen as an anachronism , arising from the fact that for a number of years such parties were led by a generation who were raised in conditions of widespread antisemitism . |
| 12 | That must be extremely dubious , considering that for a number of years the payments were made under protest . |
| 13 | ‘ The peasant economy can be defined quite simply as that Form of farm production ( and associated activities ) in which the producer and his family till the land themselves , generally utilising their own means of production ( tools and instruments ) , with the object of directly satisfying their basic needs , although for a number of reasons they may find themselves required to sell a part of their produce on the market in order to obtain goods which they do not produce . |
| 14 | Sometimes it happens that after a number of successive doses like this , the patient will have the beginnings of an aggravation : the medicine should be stopped for two to four days ( or a few hours in acute disease ) and in order to continue treatment you want to give the remedy now in a more diluted form : from the first cup ( not the bottle ) take one teaspoonful and dilute it in another cup , and one teaspoonful of this solution should be given to the patient . |
| 15 | I also think that Mrs somewhat underestimated the formal hours required , I have noted from the er , the B M A documents setting out the charges to be expected to be levied by agencies in relation to nurses that extra hours will be charged per hour and I can foresee that if an agency contracts to provide ten hours formal care that er , it might be that with a number of carers they would find themselves very , very frequently putting in for extra hours of care . |
| 16 | Arcading , using round arches , is a popular feature in Italian Romanesque buildings but it is always decorative in its application except in a number of instances in northern Italy . |
| 17 | In this sense it has a similar role to that of the Office of Fair Trading in relation to UK competition rules such as the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 , the Fair Trading Act 1973 and the Competition Act 1980 , although in a number of respects and in particular in so far as the Commission has the power to take binding decisions , its powers are more extensive than the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 18 | It may therefore be that , if a technique were ever found to evaluate the economic costs and benefits of innovative work design , it might reveal that in a number of cases such innovation had net costs , to management , rather than net benefits . |
| 19 | Having withdrawn the original proposal to tax in-house benefits on the open market price charged to the public , the Financial Secretary gave assurance that in a number of specific cases benefits would continue to be taxed as before , and in the specific case of school teachers paying concessionary school fees , the charge would be nil or very small . |
| 20 | The preceding discussions have established that in a number of cases , some kind of lexicon search by general information about words would be useful to correct any detected errors within the script recognition system . |
| 21 | We also know that in a number of countries labour disputes are brought before so called ‘ Labour Courts ’ for resolution . |
| 22 | The Council effectively recognized that in a number of important matters Protestants had been right and Catholics wrong . |
| 23 | Although evidence is accumulating that in a number of birds females prefer long-tailed mates , the role of natural selection in tail elaboration has been largely ignored . |
| 24 | It seems clear that in a number of places the word for professional soldier has been misunderstood as meaning " thousand " . |
| 25 | Phizacklea and Miles show some sensitivity to the contradictory nature of working-class consciousness and emphasize that in a number of workers high levels of class consciousness nevertheless coexisted with considerable hostility towards local blacks . |
| 26 | However , he also points out that in a number of important companies a single family of entrepreneurial capitalists retain a majority of the shares . |
| 27 | ( 2 ) The authorities show that in a number of situations the ex turpi causa defence will prima facie succeed . |
| 28 | It is clear that in a number of sectors concentration is significantly higher than in the economy generally . |
| 29 | It is reported that in a number of countries that are regionally , culturally and socio-economically heterogeneous , malnutrition has been found to be more common among children born after short than after long intervals ( Rinehart , 1984 , p. 686 ) . |
| 30 | But the most important and interesting aspect of its role in the book is the way in which Proust 's narrative is shown to deviate from the model : Genette shows that in a number of ways A la recherche breaks and challenges the laws of narrative proposed by the abstract model but without undercutting their general validity . |