Example sentences of "this [noun] [verb] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | This case raised a number of important issues including the nature of the duty of a civil servant in relation to Parliament . |
| 2 | This technique uses a number of PCR primers for different organisms in the same test tube . |
| 3 | In this case , this stage had a mean number of er calves per year , about two , whereas this hind had a number just under one , which is about right . |
| 4 | It may be recalled that no group contemplated placing the following sentence at the end : From an analytic point of view , this sentence raises a number of issues . |
| 5 | This sentence makes a number of claims , some more overt than others . |
| 6 | The results of this study reveal a number of factors which vary the likelihood of plural references being made in a continuation task . |
| 7 | This study highlighted a number of problems that family farmers faced when a member of the family came to work on the farm so perhaps it was an opportune time to look at this in more detail . |
| 8 | This term covers a number of causes , ranging from acute infectious illness , mental illness , organic brain failure , or a combination of these ( Marshall , 1988 ; Gearing et al . , |
| 9 | The wealth of qualitative data collected in this research reveals a number of valuable clues for prevention in the life history of children experiencing poor parenting . |
| 10 | This chapter offers a number of critical insights into the introduction of human resource management in schools . |
| 11 | Appendix 1 at the end of this chapter gives a number of worked examples using the questions posed in the flowchart and the answers set out in the information contained elsewhere in this section . |
| 12 | This chapter examines a number of legal aspects and incidents of the present clearing operation . |
| 13 | This passage has a number of murder holes in the floor , which allowed the Castle defenders to drop various unpleasant substances on any attackers below . |
| 14 | Miller 's argument in this passage raises a number of issues . |
| 15 | This work contained a number of problems , not the least of which was their equating society and locality , and their clinical and unproblematic distinction between the biotic and cultural orders . |
| 16 | Network planning of this type has a number of advantages : |
| 17 | Network planning of this type has a number of advantages : |
| 18 | The institutions of this sector fulfil a number of specialist functions . |
| 19 | A rope attached to this gaff enables a number of men to drag the whale into shallow water and hold the thrashing animal while others kill it with knives . |
| 20 | We have found that creating this climate involves a number of factors . |
| 21 | This examination raises a number of issues , both conceptual and empirical . |
| 22 | The penultimate chapter in this book will be concerned with arriving at generalisations about the functioning and effectiveness of the project as a whole , but it is appropriate at this point to identify a number of interesting features of the Major Project as illustrated by these two schools , and to indicate some issues that require further thought . |
| 23 | This disk contains a number of utilities for turning text into self displaying text files . |
| 24 | This disk contains a number of utilities which require decompression to the hard disk using StuffIt which is provided . |
| 25 | This instruction specifies a number of words to be moved n , a source , and a destination address . |
| 26 | This argument ignores a number of factors that will tend to operate in the opposite direction . |
| 27 | unc When the left-hand array has been condensed to I , the right hand array is R. This method has a number of variants . |
| 28 | Unfortunately this method has a number of drawbacks , notably the time taken to perform the analysis . |
| 29 | This definition includes a number of assumptions that are worth expansion . |
| 30 | This clause contains a number of matters of principal importance . |