Example sentences of "[noun sg] have a number [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Trial work suggests that the technique has a number of advantages over other forms of injection .
2 Onshore , our Logistics division has a number of partnering contracts both in Great Yarmouth and Aberdeen , whilst our Gas Turbines division is pioneering the concept of total maintenance ( health care ) contracts for critical power pack units , both offshore and onshore .
3 No , I would say that if an independent assessor has been dispatched to this is a good point worth bringing through in the event of erm a disagreement between ourselves and a policy holder , the policy holder has a number of aspects that they can they can approach .
4 Any computer has a number of input/output or peripheral devices attached to it , both for communication with the outside world ( card readers , line printers , terminals , etc. ) and for augmenting the computer 's information storage capacity ( magnetic discs , magnetic tape , etc . ) .
5 When a computer has a number of data.types , many operation codes are used up in providing the same arithmetic operation for operands with different formats .
6 In Britain , accent has a number of origins which may be regional , social or ethnic .
7 There is the important question of which court is likely to produce the fairest result following a trial , and in certain cases a jury trial has a number of important procedural benefits which are more likely to produce a just result .
8 ‘ The card has a number of holes in it .
9 Labour has a number of job creation schemes in its manifesto which , it claims , will slice thousands off the unemployment register .
10 The preoccupation with the study of artefacts in isolation has a number of causes : the need to provide a chronology ; the absence of frameworks of thought by which grave-goods might be considered in the first instance as part of a mortuary ritual ; and , particularly from the nineteenth century , obsession with artefacts .
11 The college has a number of resident post-graduate students who are there for periods varying from a year to three years .
12 This separation of the responsibilities of public office from the personal qualities of the incumbent has in the long term had a number of important consequences on decision-making in rural areas .
13 The home side have a number of St Michael 's , Enniskillen MacRory side on board , while the visitors will be looking to their colleges stars to point the way to victory .
14 That proposal has a number of different themes to it ; briefly , Channel Four would be floated off from the IBA and would then be franchised as any other ITV company .
15 This little village has a number of buildings of note , one of which is Arlington Mill .
16 The distribution law has a number of important applications .
17 This passage has a number of murder holes in the floor , which allowed the Castle defenders to drop various unpleasant substances on any attackers below .
18 If a child has a number of areas of weakness , it should be possible to organise these in terms of their significance for functional communication .
19 Network planning of this type has a number of advantages :
20 Network planning of this type has a number of advantages :
21 Although , then , the Council has a number of other potentially very useful roles described below , in this key process of getting the main building blocks of the National Curriculum into place .
22 The Faculty has a number of scholarships which are used mostly to support research students .
23 The stator of each stack has a number of poles Fig.l.3(b) shows an example with four poles — and a part of the phase winding is wound around each pole to produce a radial magnetic field in the pole .
24 figure 2.3 paints a sketch of the business universe having a number of major subsystems and environmental systems which relate to the business .
25 In the display the Godfather 's desk had a number of books on it ; the waxworks owner reached for them one by one .
26 The mill had a number of owners over the years , its major business starting when , by the 1860s , it was taken over by Reece and Sandford .
27 Silk has a number of limitations .
28 Well er we , we 've taken a , a , a policy view over the years because the group has a number of er very attractive er products and , and , and , and shareholders have frequently asked if was possible erm , to have concessions in all sorts of areas and the view we 've taken is that it involves a , a , a , a , a great deal of administration and that our real job is to er increase the profits of the business er , a as well as we can and then to pay dividends to the shareholders erm who will er , er , then use that money er , hopefully to buy a good number of our products .
29 The group has a number of restaurants in the capital and one in Oxford .
30 The farm business has a number of characteristics which set it apart from other small-scale enterprises .
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