Example sentences of "[vb pp] for a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | During spring 1986 his government arranged for a number of ‘ spontaneous ’ demonstrations of support in the West Bank , and a series of newspaper articles appeared confirming popular support for his efforts and denouncing the PLO 's betrayal of an historic opportunity for peace . |
| 2 | A year or so ago Business in the Community arranged for a number of the chief executives of some of the UK 's largest national and international corporations to spend a day in a school . |
| 3 | For although British Rate and Data ( BRAD for short ) gives information on rates , these are always open to negotiation , and discounts can be arranged for a number of reasons . |
| 4 | The lizards were examined for a number of morphological characteristics such as body proportions and colour , weighed , and released into four adjoining enclosures , one for each group . |
| 5 | It has fallen for a number of reasons . |
| 6 | It was realised that the ability to experiment in the human sciences was extremely limited for a number of practical and ethical reasons . |
| 7 | Nineteenth century ephemera , including table games , playing cards , a hieroglyphic card ( one where small pictures are substituted for a number of letters or syllables ) and ( centre ) a ‘ zoetrope ’ or ‘ wheel of life ’ , an early motion-picture toy . |
| 8 | In Brighton , where the system has been installed for a number of years , one in four homes is on the cablephone network . |
| 9 | A man has been reported for a number of alleged motoring offences following the incident . |
| 10 | A man has been reported for a number of alleged motoring offences following the incident . |
| 11 | ‘ You can imagine what a spell in the Army would have meant for someone who values his fingers as a pianist , so when I came back home I got in touch with some people and now he has been booked for a number of festivals , ’ Alan tells me . |
| 12 | There was also speculation concerning the health of both Taufa'ahau Tupou and his aged Prime Minister , the former having cancelled a state visit to Japan in order to travel to Australia for medical treatment , the latter having been incapacitated for a number of years after suffering a stroke . |
| 13 | Moreover , so-called inequities have been addressed for a number of years . |
| 14 | This is being done for a number of key mathematical topics such as decimals , ratio , negative numbers and elementary algebra . |
| 15 | It will allow the sense of frustration many of us have felt for a number of years to be replaced by a new sense of purpose . |
| 16 | A series of many similar observations can be made for a number of different tribes and issues , and cumulatively these give us a very clear picture of the extensive series of Celtic silver coinages of the first century BC . |
| 17 | A search is made for a number of special tag patterns and parse fragments and the parse structure suitably modified . |
| 18 | It was nevertheless accepted for a number of years by the Trades Union Congress , which admitted it as an affiliated organisation until 1881 , when it was declared ineligible . |
| 19 | More often , however , hyperdocuments are prepared for a number of different readers , possibly distributed over different sites , and working in different hardware/software environments . |
| 20 | ‘ But the same could be said for a number of less actively traded companies on the full list . |
| 21 | ‘ This is particularly true in the area of the trial , which is close to Peldon , where resistant strains of blackgrass have been seen for a number of years . |
| 22 | Notwithstanding the recent flurry of statutory and quasi-statutory regulatory activity in relation to insider dealing in the UK , there has operated for a number of years a range of sanctions aimed at deterring insider abuse in both the corporate/ unorthodox context and the individual/traditional context . |
| 23 | This change in the law and in the locus of power will not end the debate , which has prevailed for a number of years , about control of the curriculum of schools ; such a debate emerged once the content of the curriculum become a controversial subject in the 1960s and has continued since . |
| 24 | The majority will receive the ‘ Operation Enterprise ’ pack which has been used for a number of years and is known to the movement . |
| 25 | Thus the name ‘ man ’ is simply a name used for a number of particulars , and any idea of ‘ man ’ is always an idea of some particular man , and simply reminds us of other particulars . |
| 26 | This a less familiar technique , used for a number of plants and usually very successful ( the persistence of couch grass and convolvulus from root fragments depends on the same principle ) . |
| 27 | For illustrative purposes , only a simple example has been given here ; however , the approach has been used for a number of major investigations , including a study of the procedures of a local authority for making policy decisions about housing stock , covering in excess of fifteen thousand buildings . |
| 28 | The Conservative 's election manifesto promised that lottery funds will be additional to existing government spending and that the Millennium Fund resources will be used for a number of long term projects including restoring the fabric of great buildings . |
| 29 | The aircraft , which had a removable photographic panel in the base , was used for a number of our photographic assignments and had travelled throughout the United Kingdom and France for the magazine . |
| 30 | We have described how meetings can have a variety of objectives and be used for a number of tasks , and we have described the procedures which normally govern the operation of formal meetings . |