Example sentences of "[noun sg] had a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | This separation of the responsibilities of public office from the personal qualities of the incumbent has in the long term had a number of important consequences on decision-making in rural areas . |
| 2 | In the display the Godfather 's desk had a number of books on it ; the waxworks owner reached for them one by one . |
| 3 | The mill had a number of owners over the years , its major business starting when , by the 1860s , it was taken over by Reece and Sandford . |
| 4 | In his defence , Mrs Susan Rodway said that the Marquis had a number of guns , all with licences , which he kept locked in a cupboard in the basement of his home . |
| 5 | In the pre-robotised days the job had a number of characteristics which job design experts would have recognised as leading to a reasonably high level of job satisfaction . |
| 6 | In re-opening the agreement , the court had a number of ways of ‘ relieving the debtor or a surety from payment of any sum in excess of that fairly due and reasonable . ’ |
| 7 | Eventually they devised a support system based on levying charges in enemy territory : each fortress had a number of parishes attached to it , and these parishes were obliged to pay a levy to the commander of the garrison . |
| 8 | The appellant , having discovered that the man had a number of previous convictions for similar offences , equipped himself with a hammer and a quantity of weak sulphuric acid and sought out the man at his place of work on two occasions . |
| 9 | She followed him out , turning to see if the door had a number . |
| 10 | The supplier had a number of names and no-one who dealt with him knew , or cared to know , which was the real one . |
| 11 | The contract army had a number of advantages for the crown . |
| 12 | And I saw that the shed window had been boarded over with some plywood , and the board had a number beneath which was the signature ‘ Popova ’ . |
| 13 | In this case , this stage had a mean number of er calves per year , about two , whereas this hind had a number just under one , which is about right . |
| 14 | Housing chairman Bob Brady said the scheme had a number of advantages . |
| 15 | In the wake of the MacCabe affair in 1981 , an editorial in the Times Higher Education Supplement said that a fissiparous discipline such as English had a number of hard choices in front of it : it could become even more pluralistic and diffuse , with accompanying pedagogic problems ; it could repressively impose one favoured approach ; or it could split . |
| 16 | One was a complicated case in which the client had a number of relatives living nearby , who were said to be always arguing with each other ( including about the client 's care ) . |