Example sentences of "they have a number [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | For a government committed to radical change , they had a number of disadvantages . |
2 | And if they could n't find them there they had a number of informers in the . |
3 | erm they had a number of F E students seen in the last year . |
4 | They had a number of fires over the years at 's Mill , er and one was in eighteen sixty six or sixty seven . |
5 | Filmstrips possess many of the advantages of the tape-slide presentations , but they have a number of disadvantages , one being that the pre-set sequence compels the pictures to be shown in a given order . |
6 | ‘ But although he 's been a key force for them , we have to remember that they have a number of good jumpers ready to come in as replacements . |
7 | Spearheaded by another ex-England man in Tom Graveney , they have a number of surfaces available for both indoor and outdoor use . |
8 | Like educational technologists , they have a number of prophets ready to announce the millennium a little before its arrival . |
9 | Although functionalism and Marxism provide very different perspectives on society , they have a number of factors in common . |
10 | As market makers they have a number of important advantages . |
11 | Pattern-notes ( sometimes called " mind-maps " ) can fulfil many of your basic requirements of analytical note-making and they have a number of advantages over their over-used linear equivalent . |
12 | This is rather misleading because they are neither all that grand , nor fully unified , nor complete theories in that they have a number of undetermined renormalization parameters such as coupling constants and masses . |
13 | They have a number of disadvantages : ( a ) The cost of production — few colleges can afford to make them . |
14 | These different units and elements have led Christopher Taylor to suggest that many of our villages are polyfocal , that is , they have a number of discrete centres within them which are joined ( or separated ) by other properties , open spaces , or abandoned crofts . |
15 | I think the approach of parents is very often really quite a simple one erm that they have a number of very well defined expectations of the school and that is as far as one individual parent is concerned , that the parents wants the child to go to the school , he wants that child properly controlled , provided that it 's done in the way in which he particularly approves , and if you have fifteen hundred different parents there might be fourteen hundred and eighty five different techniques at work here , and then he wants the child simultaneously to be successful and happy . |