Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] a number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Results of Tim Wright 's research on transfer of writing skills from LSS to mainstream classrooms and benefits/problems of doing research which involves a number of other colleagues . |
| 2 | Results of Tim Wright 's research on transfer of writing skills from LSS to mainstream classrooms and benefits/problems of doing research which involves a number of other colleagues . |
| 3 | Mitcham which contains a number of interesting Georgian houses , is now a separate borough and is well known for its historic cricket green and its lavender factory . |
| 4 | After any processing of the kind described later in this chapter the data are transferred to one of three memory banks , each of which contains a number of parallel bit-planes ; each plane is capable of storing one bit ( 0 or 1 ) at each pixel position ( Figure 5.10 ) . |
| 5 | In every contract where expert determination is to be used , there will be a clause which refers questions arising under the contract to an expert and which contains a number of ancillary provisions . |
| 6 | It is an insurance contract which covers a number of items against mechanical failure . |
| 7 | An alternative approach which has a number of advantages over linear control systems , is the switching regulator , or as it is more usually known , the ‘ switch-mode power supply ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ The audit function should be carried out by the Court of Auditors in a similar way to that adopted by the principal auditor of a multinational group of companies which has a number of foreign subsidiary companies . |
| 9 | Frame Technology Inc , San Jose , also exhibited in support of its numerous partners in Japan , exhibiting a new version of Japanese Framemaker 2.1X desktop publishing , which has a number of new features to suit the Japanese environment , including tategaki and automatic numbering of kanji and numerics . |
| 10 | It is commonplace to describe a lexeme which has a number of senses as polysemous ( or as manifesting the property of polysemy ) , and a lexical form which realises lexical units belonging to more than one lexeme as homonymous . |
| 11 | In a sentence like ‘ The boy hit the girl with a flower ’ , one can think of the verb as a predicate which has a number of arguments — that is , one could represent the sentence as HIT ( BOY , GIRL , FLOWER ) . |
| 12 | Most public sector officials will be paid on a salary scale which has a number of incremental points on it and each year the official will advance a small step towards the top of the scale . |
| 13 | AWI 's Cel Editor maintains that method of working , and , in fact becomes very much a graphics package which has a number of screens to work on . |
| 14 | Let us consider a retail company which has a number of department stores and warehouses . |
| 15 | For a corporation like Unilever , which has a number of companies in its overall control , the boundary may be defined to include one or a number of these companies . |
| 16 | West Midlands have taken the initiative WITH ‘ TOTAL QUALITY ’ : a development strategy which has a number of objectives : |
| 17 | The IASC has also issued an exposure draft of a proposed statement , Retirement Benefit Costs , which incorporates a number of changes agreed in the July 1990 Statement of Intent on the comparability of financial statements . |
| 18 | Expenditure on R and D is just part of the broader process of innovation and technological change which incorporates a number of other elements [ Gomulka , 1979 ] . |
| 19 | Soloist John Kenny has a career which embraces a number of creative activities — composing , playing , acting . |
| 20 | For several years a new model for nursing has been researched , written about and tried out which allocates a number of patients rather than tasks to each nurse . |
| 21 | Ian McConnell , building services manager of the retail centre in Parkhead , gave that reassurance after a report in the current issue of the trade magazine New Builder which details a number of incidents of overhead glass exploding in UK buildings during recent months . |
| 22 | The acquisition , which includes a number of international trade marks , is subject to regulatory approval in the US and Canada . |
| 23 | The lovely oak-panelled dining room seats up to sixty guests , and offers a very traditional English menu , which includes a number of vegetarian dishes . |
| 24 | These difficulties have been faced with commendable honesty in the large catalogue , which includes a number of useful specialist essays , and which will certainly be the point of departure for future research in this area . |
| 25 | Irenius begins his account with an expression of anxiety which reveals a number of linked issues which constantly crop up in Spenser 's writing : the establishment and maintenance of true religion and civilisation within a pattern of human development predetermined by the divine . |
| 26 | The college , which employs a number of staff without qualified teacher status , ‘ has been fighting tooth and nail ’ to enter the licensed teacher scheme operating in other state schools . |
| 27 | A new ‘ Anti-Terror Law ’ , which combines a number of new provisions for the investigation and trial of persons suspected of acts of political violence or association with violent political opposition groups , was approved by President Ozal on 17 April . |
| 28 | St Andrew 's Church , Great Cransley , is the site of a particularly interesting stained glass window , the gift of the 384th Bombardment Group of Grafton Underwood which pictures a number of scenes of Britain 's impact on American history . |
| 29 | The work opportunities are primarily in the tailors ' shop , a laundry ( which services a number of other prisons ) , a printing shop and an assembly shop . |
| 30 | A statement which prints a number of spaces to the screen ( or currently selected console output stream ) . |