Example sentences of "[noun] have [vb pp] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feminist authors have raised a number of themes and issues : this paper will introduce two which concern women and the houses in which they live and work as part of a family . |
| 2 | The seminars all went well and the Australian branches have received a number of enquiries as a result . |
| 3 | Plant labels have caused a number of difficulties in recent times . |
| 4 | Among the counterparties to these swaps have figured a number of British companies that were too small to issue bonds in their own name but were happy to acquire an equivalent fixed-interest liability in exchange for floating-rate obligations . |
| 5 | The Monktonhall miners have secured a number of lucrative deals , including one with ScottishPower which is for five years and believed to be worth £10 million . |
| 6 | In the field , local youngsters have produced a number of displays , including an ingenious Thomas the Tank Engine . |
| 7 | Professionalism and sponsorship have penetrated a number of countries in Eastern Europe , most notably the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | Distinguished specialists in international law have reached a number of quite different conclusions about the legality of the use and possession of nuclear weapons . |
| 9 | The English and Scottish Institutes have suggested a number of changes to the VAT default surcharges regime , aimed at improving taxpayer compliance . |
| 10 | Both I and my officials have had a number of such discussions with a variety of people . |
| 11 | Delegates have submitted a number of critical motions . |
| 12 | Accountants have devised a number of broad assumptions which are widely accepted in preparing published accounts . |
| 13 | The Doaks have found a number of friendly gestures to be successful in communicating intentions to dolphins and engaging them in gamesplay . |
| 14 | Northern Ireland Office Civil servants have approached a number of community and church groups to act as go-betweens with loyalist paramilitaries . |
| 15 | His initiatives in the field of transport policy have included a number of environmental strands . |
| 16 | Practitioners have identified a number of skills and attributes necessary to be successful including : |
| 17 | Such moves have taken a number of different forms : |
| 18 | The Government have received a number of representations calling for the reintroduction of executive detention . |
| 19 | In the past few years , the Government have introduced a number of beneficial educational reforms , which will definitely improve matters . |
| 20 | The Government have taken a number of steps to promote the provision of affordable homes for exactly the people whom the hon. Gentleman mentions . |
| 21 | sanctions , while the Reunification of Germany and the break-up of the Soviet Union have inspired a number of new works on show . |
| 22 | ‘ Ward councillors have received a number of complaints and we will be contacting the Association , asking them to make the builders behave in a responsible manner . ’ |
| 23 | Group members have published a number of books and articles and have linked in with other ESRC supported projects on Arctic co-operation . |
| 24 | He was among the first to offer his warmest congratulations to the victorious Mr Clinton and since then the two leaders have spoken a number of times by telephone . |
| 25 | Conventional outdoor breeding herds have encountered a number of problems caused by extremes of temperature and excessive exposure to sunlight leading to heatstroke and sunburn . |
| 26 | Previous chapters have described a number of initiatives which manage at times to combine these psychological and feminist interests . |
| 27 | From this tradition have emerged a number of notable black Gospel choirs , some of them performing to a very high standard . |
| 28 | Today , the market women have formed a number of organizations , including the , Asociacion de Usuarios y Trabajadores de los Mercados de El Salvador ( ASUTRAMES ) , which is affiliated to the FDR . |
| 29 | CAMBODIAN guerrillas have captured a number of Phnom Penh government outposts in the north-west in the last week , but they have yet to mount an attack on a major town , according to a resistance spokesman and Western intelligence sources in Bangkok . |
| 30 | For reasons such as these , bond analysts have devised a number of other types of yield curve . |