Example sentences of "[adv] a number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore a number of the alternative words suggested when using the large lexicon , would be unknown to many native speakers ( e.g. betel , bey , littoral , lour , rentiers , ret ) . |
| 2 | Although such a statement might seem to be stating the obvious , apparently a number of mutual insurance companies and other regulated enterprises , whose financial statements are prepared on the basis of statutory accounting rules , have been stating that they conform with GAAP even though the statutory rules and GAAP differ . |
| 3 | FOR too long a number of unscrupulous photocopier firms have persuaded their customers to sign contracts with expensive small print . |
| 4 | Clearly some places , especially a number of fortified towns , were sited to take advantage of easily defended positions . |
| 5 | The children found that many of the old names had been kept but naturally a number of new ones , such as Frisky , Fay , Titania and Babs , had crept in . |
| 6 | Because we are dealing with what purport to be exceptions to a general principle , it is sometimes argued that there is no single legal principle of justification , merely a number of disparate responses to the specific factual and legal details of a particular case.13 Alternatively , a general principle of justification is advanced and given the name of ‘ necessity ’ or ‘ privilege ’ or some kind of ‘ comprehensive justification in relation to medical procedures ’ . |
| 7 | But then this leads to the idea that perhaps a number of women do not enjoy being part of a couple and that a single woman in their midst acts like a demented lighthouse : enticing hapless travellers , by its safe and steady beam , on to the rocks below . |
| 8 | Depending on the size of the storage area perhaps a number of such control points would be required . |
| 9 | So and so a number on a yellow or a blue or a red , yeah I 've seen it . |
| 10 | The original Milnes four wheeled cars were now getting very decrepit and it was found that the nine bogie cars would be quite sufficient to provide the normal service between West Croydon and Mitcham , so a number of Milnes cars were stored away in the back parts of the other two depôts . |
| 11 | During the past decade or so a number of investigators have used electrophysiological techniques to study hemispheric specialisation of function , usually in right handers . |
| 12 | Cheshire notes that even so a number of alternating items and structures did not occur frequently enough for a quantitative analysis , and some of the frequencies for the variables which were analysed are very low . |
| 13 | ‘ After the war the Russians encouraged the Poles in Britain to return home and so a number of army people — including Nowak — went back . |
| 14 | Just as a statistical sample ( Chapter 5 ) must be of a certain size before reliable inferences concerning the population can be drawn , so a number of simulations must be run before the average behaviour can be treated as being descriptive of the real system . |
| 15 | So a number of theories of perception erm came on to the market as a response to the work of people like in the fifties and towards the end of the fifties we started to get theories of perception which were based on feature detectors . |
| 16 | The academic , intellectual types also have a cultural background and are interested in aspects of the arts , and erm we are very fortunate , I think , also in that people are able to give more time than perhaps business people , and so a number of the members of the committee are university people and we are able to use the Gardner Arts Centre , which has become quite an exciting area , in that it 's open to experimental production , so therefore we attract a lot of the London critics . |
| 17 | A little earlier , a view of Eliot 's has been paraphrased : that ‘ there is no ‘ truth ’ to be found ’ in the world , ‘ only a number of styles and interpretations — one laid upon the other in an endless and apparently meaningless process ’ . |
| 18 | There is nothing that could reasonably be called a head ; merely a small light-sensitive spot ; no heart , only a number of pulsating arteries ; no fins or limbs , only a slight dilation at the hind end like the flight feathers of an arrow . |
| 19 | A file in which only a number of selected attributes have indexes provided is known as partially inverted . |
| 20 | It had n't really hurt him , only a number of bumps like , you know . |
| 21 | We have been using these for only a number of weeks now , but the response has been very encouraging . |
| 22 | The conference will bring together a number of authorities in various aspects of chemistry , agriculture and the environment . |
| 23 | A recent step forward was the announcement in October 1990 of the formation of a broad-based teachers ' organization — the South African Democratic Teachers ' Union — which brings together a number of teachers ' unions previously separated on racial , geographical and political lines . |
| 24 | In the broadest terms , it has been concerned with one aspect of youth history : how and why , and with what consequences for age relations , middle-class reformers put together a number of images of working-class adolescents . |
| 25 | This letter was only the beginning of a case with a long history , and by piecing together a number of disjointed fragments of information we can obtain an unusually clear picture of the sequence of events and of Anselm 's reactions to them . |
| 26 | This brought together a number of the main themes of the New Deal its interest in social and economic planning and in scientific farming and conservation , its campaign for the provision of electrical power in the rural areas , and its concern with the revival of depressed communities . |
| 27 | Then he attempted to bring together a number of small seamen 's societies by organising a conference at the Scottish port of Leith . |
| 28 | It describes the process whereby oppression and prejudice come about and is therefore , like the term ‘ special needs ’ , an attempt to bring together a number of behaviours such as sexism , racism , disablism and homophobia . |
| 29 | The Circular brought together a number of themes which run through public policy over most of the postwar period . |
| 30 | It would seem that groupings of authorities and academic institutions which are geographically close have much to recommend them in terms of the potential savings on travelling expenses , and this is clearly also true in terms of projects for the creation of teaching materials which need to bring together a number of practitioners from different schools on a regular basis . |