Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [verb] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | An old and convivial haunt which has undergone a number of recent changes but outwardly at least still retains much of its fishing port atmosphere . |
| 2 | Underwriters in the insurance markets in London and New York are making no bones about being more willing to insure craft launched with the American orbiter than with Europe 's Ariane rocket , which has suffered a number of teething problems . |
| 3 | Jeremy Woodhouse is Registrar at Marlborough , which has led a number of ambitious expeditions , including a six-week stint living 10,000 ft up Mount Kenya helping local people with projects . |
| 4 | They have organized a powerful and disciplined committee which has won a number of major concessions from the prison authorities and which , with the help of the Committee of Mothers and other human rights organizations , has kept the existence of political prisoners in the public eye , to the discomfort of the government . |
| 5 | In a nation which is as sports-crazy as Brazil , and which has produced a number of greatly distinguished drivers , of which Emerson was the first world champion , the interest is hardly surprising . |
| 6 | Last month , the Senate appropriations committee passed a bill that would cut $1.8bn ( £1.1bn ) from the Trident D-5 programme , which has experienced a number of embarrassing failures in tests of the weapon . |
| 7 | Its main ideologist is Boris Kagarlitsky , a young Marxist who has written a number of books that have been published abroad but not yet in the USSR . |
| 8 | Robert Weiss , who has conducted a number of intensive studies of adult relationships , has set out to identify the provisions of different kinds of social ties . |
| 9 | Anyone who has visited a number of medieval castles will know how admirable their sites often are : how they command distant views , or river crossings , or are placed in situations of great natural strength . |
| 10 | This latest development is another blow for Flashman , who has received a number of crushing setbacks recently . |
| 11 | Mick , who has taken a number of 20 lb pike from Essex waters this winter , travelled further afield from his Basildon home and fished a Predator Baits ' frozen mackerel on 11 lb line and two size 8 barbless trebles . |
| 12 | SAVE itself has prepared a number of such schemes for Billingsgate Market , the No 1 poultry site opposite the Bank of England and for Spitalfields Market , all in the City of London . |
| 13 | At times the loneliness of her position has brought her to the edge of despair , so much so that she has made a number of suicide attempts , some more half-hearted than others . |
| 14 | She has found a number of old photographs that will come as a great surprise to me . |
| 15 | She has launched a number of Third World projects , which she often discovers during her two months abroad each year . |
| 16 | She has had a number of exhibitions in Canada and been published in Britain . |
| 17 | She has had a number of exhibitions in Canada and been published in Britain . |
| 18 | she 's got a number of things actually , yeah . |
| 19 | And from what she 's been prattling on about she 's had a number of uncles . ’ |
| 20 | He has received a number of private proposals to augment Crec 's capital ( now at the equivalent of about $100,000 ) . |
| 21 | For his part , the patron gains the personal support of the client and , when he has accumulated a number of these clients , he becomes a prestigious person in the area due to the cumulative honour from them . |
| 22 | He has written a number of books , among them a study of Picasso . |
| 23 | Since then he has held a number of positions both in this country and abroad while serving with the RAF . |
| 24 | William Perry ( 1970 ) has brilliantly charted the development of different perspectives amongst college students ; he has described a number of ‘ positions ’ , which vary from |
| 25 | A more important new tendency appeared in another Roman opera ( 1626 ) , La catena d'Adone by Domenico Mazzocchi ( 1592–1665 ) , who remarks in a note to the published score that he has inserted a number of ‘ mezz'Arie ’ which ‘ break the tedium of the recitative ’ ( che rompono il tedio del recitativo ) . |
| 26 | Ever since the Peace People organisation was formed it has run a number of services which still continue today . |
| 27 | Since then , it has made a number of startling errors of judgment . |
| 28 | First , it has dismissed a number of head teachers appointed by the Sandinistas , and teachers who have objected to changes being made by the government have been transferred to other schools . |
| 29 | Consequently , since the appearance of Circular 11/77 , it has approved a number of new courses which have been validated by the CNAA . |
| 30 | Over the last three years , it has staged a number of hunger strikes and occupations of the administrative offices of the prison and sent out bulletins which have received wide distribution in El Salvador and abroad . |