Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] a number " in BNC.

  Next page

No	Sentence
1	The document should have provoked a number of doubts in your mind .
2	Francis said : ‘ We should have had a number of free-kicks in dangerous areas that could have produced things but they were n't given . ’
3	At the top of the scale , business must have taken a number of leading men out of town at the time the assessment was made , including , for example , Robert Thorne , Merchant Taylor and a notable benefactor to the City ; worth more than £20,000 at the time of his death in 1532 , he must have been one of the very richest men in England .
4	He believes that such vast and unexpected escapes of sub-global meltwater might have occurred a number of times as the ice sheets broke up at the end the Ice Age .
5	Here , Green saw an opportunity to negotiate an arrangement which could have resolved a number of problems .
6	Like the minor , circular designs of the latter , it may have possessed a number of concentric bands .
7	Under the STV as well as in an exhaustive ballot a candidate doomed to exclusion may have received a number of votes that is substantial and only marginally smaller than the number received by the candidate next above him in the relevant count .
8	They may have got a number one , but it cost them !
9	Asda may have helped a number of youngsters make up their minds this year with their special offer on Lichfield aftershave lotion .
10	Greater care , also , in the proofreading would have prevented a number of misprints in the presentation material .
11	Beefy Obispal would have enjoyed a number of those ladies ' favours since the fighting died away .
12	I can be sure that real teachers would have avoided a number of APU 's blunders .
13	I can be sure that real teachers would have avoided a number of APU 's blunders .
14	The brochure also would have outlined a number of other aspects in in more detail than I could give you on the phone .

  Next page