Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [coord] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result was a program called Lex-11 , which runs on both the PDP-11 computer and a number of 16-bit microcomputers . |
| 2 | There was some shooting and a number of people lay dead on the church steps . |
| 3 | The realists , insofar as they advocated training and expertise in the specialized areas of law , generally supported this programme and a number of prominent realists left law schools to work for Roosevelt in Washington . |
| 4 | Structure , comprising the old core and a number of peripheral estates , which has been socially and spatially divisive . |
| 5 | These included a number with simple Mendelian inheritance and a number of characters of agronomic importance with polygenically controlled expression . |
| 6 | On Aug. 21 and 29 , public transport and a number of other public services were affected by warning strikes , aimed at obtaining wage increases and greater job security . |
| 7 | A phone call from the house phone , the sound of throbbing popular music and a number — 817 . |
| 8 | This show and a number of other CBC programmes which I had the pleasure of producing were relayed to the Canadian forces overseas by the BBC from London throughout the war . |
| 9 | Some stepping motor applications require incremental linear motion and a number of linear stepping motors , for the direct translation of digital signals into linear steps , have been developed ( Finch and Harris , 1979 ; Langley and Kidd , 1979 ) . |
| 10 | The , the er , single regeneration agency is taking on board the issues of things like derelict land and a number of other ways in which , for example English partnership is in the regeneration industry , and a number of other ways in which the , the government have acted to , to try to make things happen . |
| 11 | What came as a surprise was that the secondary visual cortex contained not one further map but a number of them , at least five . |
| 12 | At present there are some defined posts on each committee and a number of committee members ‘ without portfolio ’ . |
| 13 | Any fanatical guitar collector or dealer would find a fair few things to pick holes in ( the excessive buckle-scratching on the back , the missing selector-switch surround , a semi-collapsed bridge causing severe buzzing on the middle strings , the advanced state of decay of the stop tailpiece , an unoriginal jack-plate and a number of modern screws ) but despite its flaws the whole guitar still just reeks of class and character . |
| 14 | A foundation deposit beneath a late Pre-Classic ( c. 300 B.C. — A.D. 300 ) platform at Nohmal , Belize , contained jadeite ear-plugs , a tubular bead and a number of pendants in the form of human heads . |
| 15 | India has a quasi-federal set-up , with a central government and a number of states organized according to language . |
| 16 | The different local councils coordinate their activities with varying regularity and a number of national meetings have taken place . |
| 17 | We saw some wild boar which paid little attention to our passing elephants , and we saw several magnificent peacock and a number of monkeys ; to me the monkeys were bandar log , straight out of Kipling 's Jungle Book . |
| 18 | The sale will also include fine maiolica and a number of tapestries . |
| 19 | The next part of the meeting concentrated on the link between poor housing and ill health and a number of reports were commented upon as evidence of a clear link existing in this area . |
| 20 | A director of music holds a position of great responsibility and a number of special qualities are required . |
| 21 | 1 became convinced that with better management and a number of policy changes we could achieve a better service for the patient . |
| 22 | We know that the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) proposes a number of additions to existing taxation and a number of new taxes , including the reappearance of investment income surcharge . |
| 23 | The offering of Ortiz-Patiño silver features English Chinoiserie-decorated pieces dating from the late seventeenth-century and a number of French eighteenth-century examples ordered by Catherine the Great and the Russian court . |
| 24 | It is not possible in a text of this nature to go into the details of security interests in any great depth but a number of questions arise with respect to the creation of such interests by a company . |
| 25 | Monetarism was a particularly controversial policy and a number of colleagues argued for a reversal of strategy , as unemployment increased remorselessly and the government 's popularity in opinion polls and by-elections slumped . |
| 26 | As noted in Chapter 1 , the project set out to enhance school library provision in the light of both the county 's own survey of secondary provision and a number of national reports . |
| 27 | In many ways the VDU command is similar to a PRINT CHR$ ( num ) command , but it involves less typing and a number of characters may be easily sent . |
| 28 | Only after considerable thought and a number of false starts had she decided to take for her key reference the mysterious poem called the Enigma Philosophorum from Elias Ashmole 's ‘ Theatre of Chemistry ’ : |
| 29 | Commitment to the community continued through our support of the performing arts , most recently through involvement with the Royal National Theatre in the UK , where we have sponsored a European Tour and a number of other initiatives . |
| 30 | The other end of the scale the erm Sun gets much of its editorial exclusives and material often running to five or six pages erm by covering the Royal Family erm in terms of language in that in the language used , the Sun erm tends to adopt a very simple writing style of one adjective erm sorry one verb and a number of adjectives with a couple of nouns , tends to be sentence went off around ten to twelve words and the design is also quite interesting because they like to sort of leave things out so you have a paragraph in normal type and then a paragraph in bold with big splodges next to it to highlight it . |