Example sentences of "[pron] have a number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , I had a number of letters from parents saying : ‘ My son wants to be a satirist when he grows up . |
| 2 | Last year I had a number of problems after perhaps rising too quickly in 1991 , ’ added Rickardsson , runner-up in the world final two years ago . |
| 3 | Because I had a number of people who 've been on to me talking about the mess on the , on the recreation ground , and asking what it 's for , and as soon as you explain why , you know , it 's been accepted . |
| 4 | I had a number of telephone conversations with him , and an interim letter dated 7 January in which he suggested , or asked me to suggest several possible dates . |
| 5 | Now I had a number of answers to this . |
| 6 | Now that I have a number of birds of my own , I do the same . |
| 7 | ‘ I have a number of houses in various parts of the United States . |
| 8 | I have a number of scanned photographs in PCX format which I 'd like to edit . |
| 9 | I have a number of machines in stock , and a large test area , but also operate a mail order service . |
| 10 | ‘ Kindly be brief , I have a number of calls to make , ’ she said sourly . |
| 11 | Question : I have a number of applications that I use every day in Windows 3.1 , and it annoys me to have to start them running ‘ by hand ’ . |
| 12 | Erm I have a number of points to make but what I intend to do is to er very briefly outline them and then see where we go from there if that 's acceptable . |
| 13 | For you must really endeavour to get ahead with your composition , and that you can do if you have in readiness copies of symphonies and divertimenti to present to a Prince or to some other patron … the divertimenti can be copied very quickly , even though it is true that yours have a number of parts and are rather long … |
| 14 | An alternative approach which has a number of advantages over linear control systems , is the switching regulator , or as it is more usually known , the ‘ switch-mode power supply ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ The audit function should be carried out by the Court of Auditors in a similar way to that adopted by the principal auditor of a multinational group of companies which has a number of foreign subsidiary companies . |
| 16 | Frame Technology Inc , San Jose , also exhibited in support of its numerous partners in Japan , exhibiting a new version of Japanese Framemaker 2.1X desktop publishing , which has a number of new features to suit the Japanese environment , including tategaki and automatic numbering of kanji and numerics . |
| 17 | It is commonplace to describe a lexeme which has a number of senses as polysemous ( or as manifesting the property of polysemy ) , and a lexical form which realises lexical units belonging to more than one lexeme as homonymous . |
| 18 | In a sentence like ‘ The boy hit the girl with a flower ’ , one can think of the verb as a predicate which has a number of arguments — that is , one could represent the sentence as HIT ( BOY , GIRL , FLOWER ) . |
| 19 | Most public sector officials will be paid on a salary scale which has a number of incremental points on it and each year the official will advance a small step towards the top of the scale . |
| 20 | AWI 's Cel Editor maintains that method of working , and , in fact becomes very much a graphics package which has a number of screens to work on . |
| 21 | Let us consider a retail company which has a number of department stores and warehouses . |
| 22 | For a corporation like Unilever , which has a number of companies in its overall control , the boundary may be defined to include one or a number of these companies . |
| 23 | West Midlands have taken the initiative WITH ‘ TOTAL QUALITY ’ : a development strategy which has a number of objectives : |
| 24 | There are a number of cases of this kind , and I would point out that air and rail journeys are only two of a number of service benefits which have a number of problems attached to them . |
| 25 | This is something where the local authority is the lead agency , but it does involve , increasingly involve very close joint working with other agencies , particularly in the health authority , and there were various conditions attaching the funds , which have a number of , of purposes , but one of the key ones in terms of where you must spend your money , or a proportion of it , was very much aimed at not destabilizing the existing sector . |
| 26 | Often in theatre in education there is a link person who has a number of key functions , in turn acting as presenter , teacher , questioner , comic relief , sometimes , indeed , pretending not to understand and needing to have points carefully explained . |
| 27 | He or she has a number of non-teaching hours for work with young people and their families after they leave school . |
| 28 | She now runs the Darlington branch of the National Epilepsy Society and to help parents and teachers recognise the symptoms she had she has a number of books and videos which she is willing to lend to anyone interested . |
| 29 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
| 30 | Counsel for the appellant sought to put to the victim that she had a number of previous convictions for dishonesty and violence . |