Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the past two days we have heard a vast number of contributions and I pay tribute to the common sense and foresight of Labour Members who have not only pointed out the inequalities of the system that is still in being but the pitfalls that we see ahead of us . |
| 2 | If you make it to the end of Chapter 7 and have registered a significant number of Yeses , I shall have done pretty well . |
| 3 | I have received a small number of such representations , from my hon. Friend the Member for Esher ( Mr. Taylor ) among others . |
| 4 | There 's nothing difficult about a whole stream of , of er comments were raised by the inspector Mr team are , have addressed a large number of them , have told us what they propose to do to deal with a number of er and , and I believe that there will be things left over when he 's finished that , that he wo n't be able to resolve er perhaps er without the people that help the Committee er or some of us are always suggesting is that er those things that he is unsuccessful in resolving erm be identified and so that er when , when the er the Inspector makes his er his next report we can see just , just why that some of these other items there have were n't able to be addressed . |
| 5 | Again , the proposals have attracted a considerable number of comments , with a minority favouring a return to the proposals in E 32 . |
| 6 | Surprisingly , comic books throughout their history have contained a significant number of references to chemical facts — indeed , we have used them in our teaching on the history of chemistry . |
| 7 | Japanese chemists have synthesised a large number of isoprenyl and isoprenoxyl derivatives and tested them against animal models . |
| 8 | Samaritans in Hereford have noticed a growing number of farmers ringing in for counselling : |
| 9 | From its Midlands grassroots in the Clean-up TV Campaign , the NVALA has grown into an organisation with over 30,000 members , and has on several occasions organised nationwide petitions which have secured a formidable number of signatures . |
| 10 | Recent X-rays taken at the Courtauld Institute have revealed a large number of small pentimenti in the details of the composition . |
| 11 | So far , the Government have made a large number of verbal commitments to creating the terms and conditions of employment that would enable women to stay in the work force and not give up when they have families . |
| 12 | If you have made a sizeable number of miniatures , you could consider displaying them all together , rather than dotting them about your home in collections of ones and twos . |
| 13 | Our two trips on the Central Wales Line have been very well supported and we have had a reasonable number on the two July ones ( last year 's was on the Severn Valley Railway ) . |
| 14 | They have had a substantial number dating back to the abortive anti-British campaign of the 1950s . |
| 15 | Well , at certain times we have had a large number of Bengali patients . |
| 16 | Both my classes , the one on semantics and the one on pragmatics , have had a large number of students on them , which is gratifying in suggesting their popularity , but I shall pay the penalty when I have to mark all their papers . |
| 17 | Schemes being piloted or in operation have used a varying number of criteria , some mainly content , some mainly process . |
| 18 | Well that 's one the other reason , of course we have got a large number of chur , very small churches in fact , looking at our mai , ministry figures nineteen ninety there were thirty churches that did n't pay anything to the maintenance and a lot of these , I think , maybe |
| 19 | The best of them have produced a small number of highly educated and skilled people . |
| 20 | We have recieved a small number of complaints … and it 's our intention to investigate every matter raised . ’ |
| 21 | I have extracted a vast number of chocolates from automatic machines ; I have obtained cigarettes , toffee , scent , and other things that I dislike by the same machinery ; I have weighed myself with sublime results ; and this sense not only of the healthiness of popular things , but of their essential antiquity and permanence is still in possession of my mind . |
| 22 | But , just as with the other two batches , centres have gone well beyond just the transfer of the remaining old courses into the new system and have proposed a large number of innovative courses and units for validation . |
| 23 | To report on my own experience , I have found a surprising number of English people outside the academic world who have lived with the Sonnets , have taken them into their own experience , can quote with ease ‘ To me , fair friend , you never can be old ’ , or ‘ Shall I compare thee to a summer 's day ? ’ , or ‘ When , in disgrace with Fortune and men 's eyes ’ , or ‘ Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediment ’ . |
| 24 | From this overwhelming fact — signalled , be it remembered , most dramatically by Marx — have sprung a great number of the achievements , problems and conflicts of the late twentieth century : economic growth and the attainment of generally high standards of living , sustained partly by extensive welfare services , in the industrial countries ; the rapid growth of world population , due in part to vastly improved medical services ; changes in the structure of capitalism towards a more ‘ organized ’ form , and in the class system ; revisions of the socialist alternative , to some extent as a result of the relative success of ‘ welfare capitalism ’ ; the North-South divide ; the impact of population growth and industrialization on the environment ; and the shifting balance of economic power in the world . |
| 25 | The first seven days of heavy fighting and shelling have caused a large number of casualties ; the Commando units in some instances are down to less than half strength . |
| 26 | These studies have generated a substantial number of books and articles written by the principal investigators as well as a large literature based on secondary analysis of the data sets . |
| 27 | Suppose , for example , that up until today I have observed a large number of ravens under a wide variety of circumstances and have observed all of them to have been black and that , on that basis , I conclude , ‘ All ravens are black ’ . |
| 28 | Such defaults have forced a large number of repossessions by bankers and other lenders . |
| 29 | We have taken a considerable number of far-reaching measures in association with the Confederation of British Industry to encourage precisely that course . |
| 30 | Where insects are preserved they seem to occur in large numbers and in variety , so that a few famous localities have yielded a disproportionate number of the fossil species . |