Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the last years of the nineteenth century a number of notable British figures began to advocate or at least speculate on the possibility of a close relationship with the United States . |
| 2 | A special session of the National Council gave the Popular Front a number of ministerial positions in a new coalition government , and on May 18 Kambarov was appointed acting President pending new elections . |
| 3 | There was no escape and in the course of the following winter a number of the crew , including Barents himself , perished . |
| 4 | On the following morning a number of soundings were taken . |
| 5 | In the previous chapter a number of important decisions were taken which enable us to establish the location of lexical elements within sentences , that is to say , to delimit them syntagmatically . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , trade cards seem to have been regarded as an important form of advertising and during the eighteenth century a number of well-known artists were commissioned to design such items . |
| 7 | In the eighteenth century a number of parishes in England took advantage of an Act of 1722–3 ( 9 Geo.I.c.7 ) to combine with other parishes to build a central workhouse in order to manage the problems of poverty more economically . |
| 8 | By the end of the eighteenth century a number of facts about the brain had emerged . |
| 9 | This suggests that both groups of children were adding on to the larger digit a number of steps equal in value to the smaller digit . |
| 10 | By the eleventh century a number of towns existed along the valley and important civic and ecclesiastical buildings were erected . |
| 11 | Mr. Kenealy then asked the medical officer a number of specific questions about Miss Price 's work . |
| 12 | In the fourth year a number of topics of current interest are studied in detail , taking the student to the leading edge of current research . |
| 13 | Behind them , in the blackest darkness , rode the Lord Satan ( oh , yes , I 've met the evil bugger a number of times ) on his dark-winged steed . |
| 14 | Thus , the study concluded , on the one hand a number of the best practice companies relied on technology ( existing and new ) to generate a stream of new ideas , while on the other less successful companies could improve their position significantly by upgrading their technological competence , and by forging links with other companies and academia possibly with the help of government support schemes . |
| 15 | While admitting that the US company 's board had discussed winding up the Irish operation a number of times , he emphasized his gratitude and that of the board for the help and co-operation received from the Irish government and the IDA . |
| 16 | At the far end a number of tools , harnesses , tack and the like are scattered about — one harness still in good repair . |
| 17 | Answering the same question a number of times is a useful exercise in showing how improvements can be made in the way in which you present the facts to the examiner . |
| 18 | At first this was hard to prove , since local authorities were now given many new relief duties : at the same time a number of extensive taxation rights were transferred away from them to the Centre . |
| 19 | Then , from doing the same puzzle a number of times they remember where each piece fits . |
| 20 | The following Escape sequences sends the same code a number of times . |
| 21 | However in all fairness to the Halling unit a number of those older men who fought in the first war wore medals for gallantry , and were to show us youngsters that they had lost none of their skills with a rifle . |
| 22 | At the other extreme a number of specialist car producers have come to dominate the luxury end of the car market . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In a violent backlash a number of journalists , including a British photographer , were killed by rampaging mobs . |
| 25 | In a violent backlash a number of journalists including a British photographer were killed by rampaging mobs . |
| 26 | In a violent backlash a number of journalists , including a British photographer , were killed by rampaging mobs . |
| 27 | This chapter has examined from a comparative standpoint a number of important characteristics of trade unions , mainly in relation to industrialised , market-type economies . |
| 28 | It is envisaged that in a practical system a number of sub-domains may be declared with a component during its design , each monitoring differing aspects or regions of the model . |
| 29 | In sections 4.8–4.12 a further set of qualifying concepts is presented which will help to identify in a systematic way a number of near relations of , and approximations to , more basic paradigmatic relations . |
| 30 | There was a big announcement a number of months ago in Derry where a political party said on the headlines of the news about creating 200 jobs in Derry . |