Example sentences of "[verb] at a number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And to top all of this , there will be competitions galore , with terrific holidays , goods and equipment to be won at a number of stands . |
| 2 | This applies particularly to public libraries , which aim to satisfy a wide range of reading needs at a number of different levels . |
| 3 | These quotations hint at a number of important dimensions to policing in Northern Ireland : that policemen and women in the RUC have common-sense conceptualizations of their role , with some defining it in terms of community service ; that they have sets of standardized guide-lines , what Schutz ( 1967 ) calls ‘ recipes ’ , appropriate for the situations they handle ; that they make , and try to maintain , a distinction between work and leisure ; and that they employ various distancing strategies to cope with the demands of their job . |
| 4 | Tear the slip out and hand it in at any Midland branch ; or put it in one of the AutoDeposit machines that have been installed at a number of our branches . |
| 5 | Whilst it has been installed at a number of specialist publishers , such as Rhinegold , and more than a few local and regional newspapers , AM has never made much of an effort to actually sell the device on its merits to either the corporate market or the publishing community . |
| 6 | Equipment to monitor nitrogen oxides has been installed at a number of sites , including Wilton recreation club , in a jointly funded venture between ICI , Langbaurgh Borough Council , Enron and British Steel . |
| 7 | The second looks at a number of countries ( ranging from the USA to Austria ) ; in each country , the project discusses the relation between the institutional structure and economic policy-making and outcomes at macro and micro levels , with reference to the following external shocks : OPEC 1 and 2 , world recession and rapid technological change . |
| 8 | Having looked at a number of hypothetical fossil records varying in degree of completeness , they state that ‘ Sometimes fossils can be used in phytogenetic reconstruction without reference to stratigraphy : sometimes they can be used in combination with stratigraphy : sometimes they can not be used at all ; and sometimes phylogeny is in principle not reconstructible . ’ |
| 9 | A working group made up of clinicians , consultants , GPs and other health professionals has looked at a number of options and has recommended that services be consolidated , and accommodation improvements made , at the Chest Hospital . |
| 10 | Our perception of the pub has to work at a number of levels — mostly obvious , but nonetheless worth clarifying . |
| 11 | Any proposals to alter the situation faced by older workers have to work at a number of levels : developing new social roles ; using legislation to change attitudes ; improving work prospects ; raising income levels ; increasing the effectiveness of health and social policies . |
| 12 | The validity of product measures as the sole form of evaluation can be considered at a number of levels . |
| 13 | The standards for the NVQs were circulated widely throughout the industry for consultation and discussion during the development phase , and later presented at a number of national CIOB seminars . |
| 14 | Results from these analyses have been presented at a number of conferences and seminars in the UK and overseas . |
| 15 | It would be wrong to conceive of these two ‘ orders ’ as being respectively University and Ministry based , for both types of information may be collected at a number of levels including school and teacher 's centre level . |
| 16 | As the Director explains in the preface , the exhibition was selected by looking at a number of separate modes of work , subject areas and photographic media . |
| 17 | The following chapters will attempt to outline some of the main features of discourse organization by looking at a number of factors which constrain or aid the way we produce and understand text . |
| 18 | He says that the council are looking at a number of options , the pool is being considered because it 's very costly to run . |
| 19 | For now the Council is looking at a number of ways to save money , if they DO decide to close the pool , these might be the only swimmers left later this summer . |
| 20 | ‘ We are looking at a number of exciting ideas from advertisers , it will be rather different . ’ |
| 21 | they had met at a number of police conferences . |
| 22 | Readers who do not possess ‘ MI ’ No.14 are advised to acquire a copy , since the two parts of the article cross-refer at a number of points . |
| 23 | Having looked at the services export houses have to offer , we shall now look at a number of reasons why a manufacturer might want to use one . |
| 24 | When discussing differences in earnings between black and white workers , we noted that it was important to look at a number of factors , for example , the age structure of the two groups and the kind of industry in which they worked . |
| 25 | The theory argues that we can not develop one universal scientific approach to create the perfect organisational structure , but rather we have to look at a number of variables and see how they interact with each other within particular organisations . |
| 26 | Before going on to consider the results of this survey , it is important to look at a number of methodological limitations which may well compromise some of its findings . |
| 27 | Also getting a lot of media attention was the National Study of Childhood Cancer , which is going to look at a number of background environmental factors in all children 's cancers during the next five years . |
| 28 | From the data obtain at a number of air-monitoring stations , Lin produced a table of counts in the form shown in Table 6.3 . |
| 29 | CAI library instruction has been used at a number of American libraries such as the Ohio State University and the University of Denver . |
| 30 | TRAINER has been used at a number of institutions ( Caruso 1981 ) . |