Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] number " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In recent years , Zambia has received a growing number of refugees from the continuing civil war in Mozambique . |
| 2 | In common with much of eastern Europe , Hungary has witnessed a growing number of anti-Semitic attacks in recent years . |
| 3 | It has attracted a growing number of UK corporates , including British Steel , British Aerospace , BT and Mercury . |
| 4 | What is not known is information on the locations of former sites , at which quite toxic materials may have been dumped , though recent work by Egger ( 1989 ) in Austria has mapped a vast number of such sites . |
| 5 | The National Library has seen a large number of retirements and new appointments during the year , including new departmental structures and staffing levels , leading to the overall number of permanent and temporary posts being increased . |
| 6 | We will record his successes on this star chart and show him how he can earn treats when he has collected a specified number of stars [ see page 57 ] . |
| 7 | Clark ( 1990 ) has recently referred to the ‘ myth ’ of the Anglo-Norman scribe and has collected a large number of comments from early in the century up until very recently from the work of distinguished scholars , in which attested forms are typically said to be ‘ Anglo-Norman ’ and therefore rejected . |
| 8 | SIR ROBIN BUTLER has collected a fair number of accolades during his academic and Civil Service career , but none stranger than the stag 's head that decorates his Whitehall office , writes David Millward . |
| 9 | He has made a great number of friends here who wish him the best of luck , and hope he plans to make frequent visits back here . |
| 10 | He plays throughout Europe and North America and has made a good number of recordings . |
| 11 | The distinctive area of the single television play has produced a surprising number of allusions to homosexuality . |
| 12 | ‘ He has had a great number of stitches inserted in the eyelid and underneath the eye in an effort to keep it closed and avoid further damage . |
| 13 | This system , which is discussed in detail by Montgomery and Wallace leads to a fairly high number of accesses required to retrieve records from a well-aged file , i.e. one that has had a large number of additions or deletions since it was last loaded . |
| 14 | Now we will suppose that the author has lighted on important new material or has had a significant number of errors in the first edition pointed out to him . |
| 15 | I I 'm certainly not My Lords er un er er an unqualified admirer of all our procedures in local Government , but I do believe that before central Government is further down the road of , of erm usurping functions which are now those of local government it has to persuade a large number of people that its own performance justifies such a course and myself I do n't believe it does . |
| 16 | But this was only one of a variety of vessels , some of them much larger , it seems , used by the Vikings , and it is the accident that they still used them for burials which has enabled a small number to survive — the conversion to Christianity may be said to have deprived us for ever of the best evidence we might have had of medieval navigation as it developed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 17 | For twenty five years he has been a member of Equity and has played a different number of roles . |
| 18 | Sue Curnow has played a large number of parts in the theatre and on television in both England and New Zealand . |
| 19 | Our squeamishness in the presence of our prey animals , our inability to look them in the eye , has condemned a large number of our pigs to nastiest existence imaginable . |
| 20 | Over at ITN , the chief executive , Bob Phillis , has invited a similar number to share the excitement of election coverage — ‘ mostly television executives , and people in media and political commentators , who want to be where the action is . ’ |
| 21 | In its place has emerged a growing number of people in such work as banking , finance , insurance , property and advertising . |
| 22 | Has influenced a large number of the world 's breeds . |
| 23 | But the greater professionalism of the top search consultants and their measurable success in the business by the 1980s has influenced a significant number of clients to go beyond a basically negative attitude ; and in the words of one regular user of search , to see headhunting not just as a convenient time and money saver , but as an objective , imaginative , innovative , creative and even indispensable management tool . |
| 24 | Like London , New York has inherited a large number of hospitals , including some of the country 's most prestigious medical centres and medical schools . |
| 25 | An evil Alien Race has sent a huge number of invasion ships towards earth , carrying weapons capable of destroying entire planets ! |
| 26 | For instance , Air Vice-Marshal Gill has handled a large number of controversial searches in the defence and aviation sectors . |
| 27 | Persinger has suggested a large number of consequences should his theory indeed be correct . |
| 28 | ‘ Unfortunately we have had to disappoint a large number of capable girls , causing the governors a great deal of anguish . |
| 29 | Embryonic fibroblast culture and replication banding has the advantage of providing a large number of slides and mitotic cells which could be used for several different probes but the disadvantages of having to pool a considerable number of embryos for the initiation of the culture and a lack of knowledge as to the source and lineage of the cells which become established in culture . |
| 30 | Er Trading Standards Officers have been helping the police have made a large number of visits to sales in recent months targetting those where we know or suspect there will be concentration of counterfeiter goods and these stolen items we 've been taking and seizing items , we 've been making inspections and er we will also be distributing some leaflets to try and advise people of some of the risks and dangers that face them at this sort of event . |