Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] a number of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to know a number of things . |
| 2 | Rather than describe the required knowledge in general terms , we propose to discuss a number of topics which would embody that knowledge and its relationship to foreign language teaching . |
| 3 | The position is , looking at appendix one , and if you take the first triangle , which has got nineteen ninety three , ninety four below it , that 's showing that we started off with no clients , and then by the end of the year we expect to have a number of people in our care , receiving services , to which we have a degree of commitment . |
| 4 | ‘ In the future , we hope to try a number of relatively simple manoeuvres to see if we can slow that destructive process to prevent diabetes , ’ says Eisenbarth . |
| 5 | Now if you violate any of the assumptions ordinary squares , right , then the procedure will produce or may produce misleading results , we can only be confident in statistical terms about ordinary leased squares parameters , right , because we know and show in theory that they hold providing a number of assumptions are met , like you have serially uncorrelated errors , right , we do n't have m multi co-linearity amongst the regresses , right , we have constant variance throughout the sample now if any of those er assumptions are breached , violated then our , any statistical results that are generated from erm the technique that assumes that those assumptions have n't been breached erm are invalidated and we can get very misleading er parameter estimates , right , in the presence of auto correlation or multi-linearity erm . |
| 6 | Their statements seem to have a number of points in common : first , they tend to be expressed in inappropriate circumstances , for example , someone makes a contribution to a congress , and someone else feels compelled to make an immediate reply . |
| 7 | The class of games analyzed above seem to have a number of possible applications to economics . |
| 8 | We seem to have a number of people in Scotland who have dropped off the bottom of the matrix list . |
| 9 | What makes it both attractive to users and even more misleading is that the promoters of the technique tend to use a number of methods to produce ‘ norms ’ for , in particular , ‘ preference shift ’ , but also for various attention measures . |
| 10 | ‘ tend to share a number of social characteristics but most important among these is the fact that their behaviour , personal qualities , and/or position threaten the social relationships of production … . |
| 11 | Elderly couples continue to have a number of adjustments to make , getting used to different patterns of daily living , changing forms of sexual expression , failing health and senses , shifting roles . |
| 12 | Following the success of the event , which we believe was the first of its kind in our field , we intend to hold a number of similar seminars in the future , for export and home-based customers , to confirm 's place as the leading flavour supplier to the crisp and snack industry throughout Europe . |
| 13 | Visiting can play an important part in helping you decide on your choice of university , so we try to provide a number of opportunities for you to visit the University . |
| 14 | You can use delete to remove a number of lines from you program . |
| 15 | Vaill also argued that high-performing systems tend to have a number of common characteristics . |
| 16 | With regard to galleries , then , we aim to support a number of strategically placed centres in , say , Brighton , Farnham , Canterbury , Folkestone , St. Leonards and Eastbourne , sufficiently for them , each doing their own thing , in due course to be able to service a touring exhibition network , made up of themselves and the other regional galleries , be able to offer the artist whose work they exhibit or promote a fair deal — that means paying them for their transport , insurance , publicity costs and perhaps a fee for exhibiting their work in public — and finally to organize appropriate marketing and education back-up to their own exhibitions programmes , which both pulls people in to the gallery and reaches out to them in , for example , schools and industry . |
| 17 | However , there do remain a number of cases where there are variations in the strength of glass whose surface is genuinely untouched . |
| 18 | Together with Scottish Innovation , which has co-ordinated the attendance of Scottish companies at the previous seven events , they aim to attract a number of Scottish companies interested in forging links with European partners at Lille . |
| 19 | We do not yet have a complete consistent theory that unifies general relativity and quantum mechanics , but we do know a number of the features it should have . |
| 20 | The seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writers do describe a number of fruit fools , fools made from gooseberries , raspberries , strawberries , redcurrants , apples , mulberries , apricots , even from fresh figs ; but few of these dishes turn out to be the simple cream-enriched purées we know today . |
| 21 | Although there are some significant variations between these writers , they do identify a number of implications for staff management . |
| 22 | ‘ As speech therapists , we are unable to cope with such a divergence of languages , although a number of therapists do speak a number of the West European languages ’ ( * ) . |
| 23 | Public relations agencies do employ a number of assistants and a bright young person can sometimes get employed in this category . |
| 24 | The methodology , the results and the interpretation of those results have all been questioned and criticised ( see Parsons , 1978 ) but the Hawthorne experiments do suggest a number of considerations : |
| 25 | The earliest known map calls the group ‘ S.Kilda ’ , and in the old Norse language the name ‘ Kelda ’ means ‘ spring ’ or ‘ well ’ , so it seems possible that the islands , which do have a number of freshwater springs , were used as a watering-place by the Vikings when they were involved in their warlike raiding and invasions of the northern parts of Britain . |
| 26 | But we do have a number of private accounts as well , where people buy a lot of flowers and prefer to pay their bills once a month . ’ |
| 27 | Er , it is n't just Alton Towers , it 's whether you should get discounts on Penguin Books it was whether you got , er , bottles of Chateau le Tour erm it , it requests for many different things and , er , you know , alright er , it we could , we could , if Alton Towers seemed to be what , er , all shareholders wanted er , perhaps we , we could consider that but , but , but we do have a number of a attractive products . |
| 28 | ’ We do get a number of public schoolgirl types doing it , and I think it 's pretty sick . |
| 29 | The origins are important because they help explain a number of otherwise curious features of the societies . |
| 30 | We 've received a number of apologies for absence . |