Example sentences of "number of [adj] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can identify a number of interlocking and mutually reinforcing reasons why the situation prevails . |
| 2 | Both of these edited volumes contain a number of relevant and clearly written papers on a variety of specific topics . |
| 3 | But as the reader will be aware , during the past decade or so , the courts , building on a series of decisions which quite properly and logically held ineffective a number of ingenious and entirely artificial schemes devised for the manufacture and allowance of losses or expenses which were never in fact incurred , have sought to create and apply to transactions conferring tax advantages for which the legislature has made provision a doctrine of ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ , the general effect of which is that even though the citizen follows to the letter that which Parliament has told him that he can do in order to attract the fiscal consequences which Parliament has statutorily decreed will follow if he does it , nevertheless , whatever Parliament may have said shall be the consequences , the courts will and must decline to give effect , not to what he has done , but to the fiscal consequences which Parliament has provided , unless he demonstrates that there was a ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ for his action . |
| 4 | It possesses a large number of small but very sharp teeth and can inflict a painful bite if given half a chance . |
| 5 | Marjorie Bilbow , in Cinema TV Today , described the production as ‘ very plodding and unimaginative ’ , and Clyde Jeavons wrote in the British Film Institute 's Monthly Film Bulletin , ‘ Apart from accommodating a number of half-hearted and totally unmemorable songs and dance routines , William Sterling has taken few liberties with the original narrative , but at the same time he has divested it of both its charm and its potential for cinematic comic invention . |
| 6 | ‘ We have some problems with some of his views on a number of major and very controversial issues , ’ said a chemical company spokesman . |
| 7 | What has been called his ‘ exact and scientific attitude to bird-life ’ then gave rise to a series of important books on birds — Bird Display ( 1942 ) and its sequel Bird Display and Behaviour ( 1947 ) , The Wren ( 1955 ) , The Folklore of Birds ( 1958 ) , A Study of Bird Song ( 1963 ) , and The Life and Lore of Birds ( 1975 ) — as well as a number of shorter or more popular works . |
| 8 | The number of old and very old people in Scottish psychiatric hospitals accounts for much of the difference in bed numbers on the two sides of the border and reflects the poor provision of local authority run places for elderly confused people in Scotland . |
| 9 | Primary process thinking is driven by what he called the pleasure principle , whereby the instant gratification of infantile desires is achieved by making use of a number of irrational but personally satisfying mental tricks ( mechanisms he called condensation , displacement , substitution and symbolization ) . |
| 10 | A number of large and efficiently run workshops made a wide range of products for use in the centre and for sale in nearby towns . |
| 11 | Her study suggested that social work decisions were influenced by a number of underlying and often implicit assumptions , which included the primacy of the blood tie and the primacy of natural parental possession . |
| 12 | They exhibit a number of interesting and often novel mechanisms of gene expression and control , such as RNA editing , transsplicing and polycistronic transcription ( for reviews see 1,2,3 ) . |
| 13 | In recent years an increasing number of second- and even third-generation Koreans have shown signs of rebelling against a system which has limited their job options and freedom of movement . |
| 14 | His efforts to stimulate industry in Portugal , largely by the setting-up in the 1760s of a number of privileged and mainly foreign-owned enterprises , owed more to the Colbertian attitudes of late-seventeenth century France than to any economic theories of his own day . |
| 15 | Everybody knows — including I think members of the Council from all three political groups — everybody knows that we 've got increasing numbers of elderly people , we 've got increasing numbers of disabled and mentally ill people in the community , and if there is one service , and I know there are others , but if there is one service that needs constant new growth it 's Social Services , and that 's not me empire building or anything like that , that 's me simply saying in straight managerial terms there are forces which require us to increase the Social Services budget . |
| 16 | To be sure , there was a time when the Party had hoped to recruit large numbers of keen and politically sophisticated young members , and thereby change the YCs from a social club into a political movement . |
| 17 | The survival of Catholic recusancy and the existence of large numbers of ungodly and seemingly unregenerate vagrants and dissolutes gave credence to the idea of reprobation . |