Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [vb pp] a number " in BNC.

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1 At times the loneliness of her position has brought her to the edge of despair , so much so that she has made a number of suicide attempts , some more half-hearted than others .
2 She has found a number of old photographs that will come as a great surprise to me .
3 She has launched a number of Third World projects , which she often discovers during her two months abroad each year .
4 She has had a number of exhibitions in Canada and been published in Britain .
5 She has had a number of exhibitions in Canada and been published in Britain .
6 He has received a number of private proposals to augment Crec 's capital ( now at the equivalent of about $100,000 ) .
7 For his part , the patron gains the personal support of the client and , when he has accumulated a number of these clients , he becomes a prestigious person in the area due to the cumulative honour from them .
8 He has written a number of books , among them a study of Picasso .
9 Since then he has held a number of positions both in this country and abroad while serving with the RAF .
10 William Perry ( 1970 ) has brilliantly charted the development of different perspectives amongst college students ; he has described a number of ‘ positions ’ , which vary from
11 A more important new tendency appeared in another Roman opera ( 1626 ) , La catena d'Adone by Domenico Mazzocchi ( 1592–1665 ) , who remarks in a note to the published score that he has inserted a number of ‘ mezz'Arie ’ which ‘ break the tedium of the recitative ’ ( che rompono il tedio del recitativo ) .
12 Ever since the Peace People organisation was formed it has run a number of services which still continue today .
13 Since then , it has made a number of startling errors of judgment .
14 First , it has dismissed a number of head teachers appointed by the Sandinistas , and teachers who have objected to changes being made by the government have been transferred to other schools .
15 Consequently , since the appearance of Circular 11/77 , it has approved a number of new courses which have been validated by the CNAA .
16 Over the last three years , it has staged a number of hunger strikes and occupations of the administrative offices of the prison and sent out bulletins which have received wide distribution in El Salvador and abroad .
17 Hall ( 1988 ) , in particular , has argued that the power of that brand of New-Right Conservatism known as Thatcherism consists largely of the skilful way in which it has disconnected a number of themes — self-help , anti-statism , public order , anti-trade unionism , nationalism , share ownership — from the basically bourgeois discourse in which they have been traditionally lodged .
18 It has elicited a number of interesting points on which we would do well to reflect .
19 I do n't believed it has addressed a number of issues .
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