Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 31 | I predict that , if we do not reform matters , we shall have introduced a large number of Bills dealing with estuaries . |
| 32 | But whatever those proposals may be , schools now will have the opportunity of opting out , and I think it 's a fair guess that if the opting out legislation had been in place when comprehensive education was imposed upon this county in 1964 , you would probably have found a great number of the grammar schools would have opted out , using the legislation , and I have no doubt whatsoever that in every single one of those cases you would have had a large majority of parents in support of that . |
| 33 | The only aspect of the lessons which I can really remember was having to learn a substantial number of Euclid 's theorems on geometry . |
| 34 | So provides section 16 of the Partnership Act , 1890 , and the words have a comfortingly assured ring about them even though long and intimate acquaintance with that Act suggests that comfort will be impaired if here as at other points in the Act one indulges in deeper reflection ; and reflection need not go very deep before one becomes uneasy , because if one takes the words of section 16 into unqualified acceptance and seeks to apply them in practical situations , one does not have to envisage a great number of such situations to find some where the uncritical acceptance of section 16 will lead to manifest absurdity . |
| 35 | Looking back on that then , you must have lost a great number of colleagues and workmates that it must give you sort of mixed feelings looking back on it ? |
| 36 | Having acquired a sufficient number of signatures , the Campaign submitted their referendum proposal , which the government of the day , the Fine Gael — Labour coalition under Garret FitzGerald which had come into power that year , decided to submit to the populace . |
| 37 | British Shipbuilders last seems to have recruited a significant number of apprentices in the late 1970s . |
| 38 | The minister also said that there would be no financial or budgetary disadvantage whatsoever to any GP who had to treat a large number of chronically ill patients . |
| 39 | Within a few years the movies had added a significant number of other social groups to its audience . |
| 40 | Nevertheless he had persisted with the Saturday Benediction , and Lent had impelled a respectable number to attend . |
| 41 | ‘ I 've met a great number of very interesting people , ’ he murmurs . |
| 42 | And I think we 've seen a good number of those erm from the Telegraph , the Mail and the Express , going to the Times . |
| 43 | Pete had seen a fair number of valley mornings , although not so many had been as early as this . |
| 44 | The second defendant had made a large number of deliveries to and collections from the premises on Capricorn 's account . |
| 45 | He waited until he had collected a large number of observations of the fact that he was fed at 9 a.m. , and he made these observations under a wide variety of circumstances , on Wednesdays and Thursdays , on warm days and cold days , on rainy days and dry days . |
| 46 | Information published in Le Figaro in September 1991 following Swiss investigations appeared to confirm that , as speculated in the press at the time , Roger-Patrice Pelat , a friend of Mitterrand who died in March 1989 [ see p. 36706 ] , had bought a large number of Triangle shares via a Swiss company , Experta Treuhand , only days before the Pechiney-ANC deal . |
| 47 | I 've got a new number , twenty nine , and you 'll find that on the pale blue papers page number sixty five the first notice of I put number twenty nine to the general assembly is that approved ? |
| 48 | Oh there was a tremendous variety , but then there were all the same in , erm you look at the er the three light fitting er it hangs down from the ceiling and has three branches out from it and it either has three lights hanging down or three hanging upwards , er with four ordinary bulbs in or candle bulbs in and shades , sometimes they have four , erm , there 's still an awful lot of those about and any lighting shop you look in you 'll still see plenty of those er and yet they 've got a tremendous number of disadvantages , one thing , a lot of them got glass shades , if you break one shade three year 's time you might as well throw away the fitting because you ca n't get another one er , and erm it 's a design that does n't , it does n't lend itself to giving a good lighting in a room at all er , it they , they harsh glassware , the edges of the glass during all round the room and that sort of thing |
| 49 | You 've got a limited number of slots to sell so you do n't need to go thrashing around the country |
| 50 | Well because if , if we got , if we say you 've got a certain number of members of staff , and each full time equivalent offers you two hundred and twenty two point eight working days a year . |
| 51 | They 've got a different atomic weight , cos they 've got a different number of neutrons , but they got the same number of protons and they 've got the same pattern of electrons , and the pattern of those outer electrons is what decides its chemical properties . |
| 52 | And that was er duly inside , you 've got a fair number of spares on that . |
| 53 | ‘ We 've had a fair number much less welcome than you , ’ said Mrs Gray , unexpectedly smiling . |
| 54 | I knew that we all had sold a fair number of tickets to friends , relatives , colleagues , in fact , anyone who would buy them , but it would n't be enough to fill one tier . |
| 55 | He was going to return in three days ' time , and had invited a large number of ladies and gentlemen to stay for several days . |
| 56 | In December 1989 Najibullah had arrested a large number of Khalqi officers whom he suspected of plotting against him [ see p. 37184 ] . |
| 57 | Over the years I 've encountered a fair number of weird and wonderful marketing ideas , but perhaps none more eye-catching than Sony 's new mid-price ‘ Dinner Classics ’ series . |
| 58 | Furthermore the 1951 French elections had brought a considerable number of Gaullists into the National Assembly who opposed EDC , not so much because it meant arming German soldiers , but because it would ‘ surrender ’ the command of the French Army to a supranational institution . |
| 59 | This had necessitated a large number of meetings , particularly for the Socialisation of Industries Committee and the Social Services Committee : ministers had tended to bring too many items to committee ; senior ministers had wanted to keep an eye on their more junior colleagues , and as a result a heavy burden fell on a handful . |
| 60 | They had inherited a large number of hire schemes , and sometimes ( particularly for cookers in working class areas ) found it economic to continue these . |