Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] number of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norway has no immediate plans to leave the IWC which last year rejected plans from Iceland and Japan to catch a limited number of whales . |
| 2 | Meanwhile Bleek 's relationships involve a large number of bedroom scenes which for too much of the time seem to present the women as carnal accessories passively accepting his attentions . |
| 3 | Buying decisions often involve a large number of people , particularly in the case of a public authority where a purchasing committee may be involved in a major purchase . |
| 4 | Each shot causes a variable number of hits as described below . |
| 5 | Fantasias ‘ on themes from such-an-such opera ’ were staple fare for many of the less substantial virtuosi of the first half of the nineteenth century , and even Liszt contributed a fair number of them to the literature . |
| 6 | Added to the Right-On readers , they effectively expanded the core group and provided a viable number of buyers . |
| 7 | Changes in the course occur because of the need to attract a great number of students ; recently there has been a move to introduce a greater element of electronics in the course because |
| 8 | ( The more lenders there are competing for the same customers , the hard for each has to work to attract a given number of customers — and an obvious way of attracting customers is by cutting rates . ) |
| 9 | While no operational difficulties were reported during SeaDocs ' experiment , and while the fees per registration fluctuated between only $300 and $500 , SeaDocs failed to attract a sufficient number of traders and financial institutions to survive . |
| 10 | RECREATION services provided by Darlington council continue to attract a growing number of visitors . |
| 11 | In bureaucratic organizations the latter notion ultimately leads to situations in which a man can be called a ‘ manager ’ solely on the grounds that he supervises a certain number of people , and without regard to the degree of judgement or decision-making responsibility such supervision requires . |
| 12 | It was noticeable that the libraries who listed a substantial number of local authority courses were often the ones who listed substantial numbers of internal and external courses as well , so that there was a strong relationship between total number of courses and involvement of local authority ( see Table 24 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ It would need a large number of men , ’ he points out , ‘ who would have to stay until the job is done . |
| 14 | Japanese chemists have synthesised a large number of isoprenyl and isoprenoxyl derivatives and tested them against animal models . |
| 15 | The GGF gene has a mosaic structure , composed of at least 13 coding segments ( representing a minimum number of exons ) and at least two functional domains recognized in known superfamilies as already described . |
| 16 | By contrast , industrial unions cover all workers within a particular industry and general unions are completely inclusive in terms of their recruitment , representing a large number of different industries and occupations . |
| 17 | This document read as follows : That we , as representing a large number of the women compositors of Edinburgh , feel that a question affecting a considerable body of women should not be settled without these women having an opportunity of giving expression to their views . |
| 18 | The brand covers a large number of DOC vineyards . |
| 19 | This umbrella term covers a large number of different therapies , which concentrate strongly on the ‘ wholeness ’ of a person and their potential for good . |
| 20 | It has attracted a growing number of UK corporates , including British Steel , British Aerospace , BT and Mercury . |
| 21 | Magdalen , which had been Oscar Wilde 's college , always attracted a fair number of rarefied and aesthetic young men , and it was on to the path of this tradition that one of Lewis 's first pupils , John Betjeman , happily placed his bedroom-slippered toe . |
| 22 | Again , the proposals have attracted a considerable number of comments , with a minority favouring a return to the proposals in E 32 . |
| 23 | The scheme , launched by Michael Howard in May , has so far attracted a large number of national and other contractors , and has been given widespread support from both Government and consumer associations . |
| 24 | The government showed itself willing to accept a large number of amendments of detail and a few of substance affecting boundaries as long as they could maintain the principle of a two-tier structure . |
| 25 | Nowadays , too , the suggestion that a woman 's role consists entirely of slaving over the cooker , the kitchen sink and the washing is certain to irritate a significant number of people , though it is still a real enough situation for the majority of women . |
| 26 | The sale will also include a large number of uncatalogued items , including the contents of attics which Steinitz never had time to inspect . |
| 27 | Embryonic fibroblast culture and replication banding has the advantage of providing a large number of slides and mitotic cells which could be used for several different probes but the disadvantages of having to pool a considerable number of embryos for the initiation of the culture and a lack of knowledge as to the source and lineage of the cells which become established in culture . |
| 28 | A mathematical system is distinguished by the fact that it seeks to derive a large number of very complex conclusions from a small number of primitive propositions , employing a small number of primitive ideas . |
| 29 | The Halling factories each had a cooper 's shop employing a considerable number of men . |
| 30 | So decide to meet a certain number of people for so many minutes each day , and gradually increase this over six months . |