Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [art] number " in BNC.

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1 The brewers Peter Walker are sponsoring a number of festival events including Ms Daniels ' appearance last night at The Vines with fellow comic Pete Price .
2 The key issues for the future of the Association are sustaining the number of voluntary welfare workers and their helpers and giving them the financial and other support they need to deal with both increasing and more complex welfare needs .
3 SCOTVEC has been addressing a number of issues including :
4 Safety Officer , Dave Johnson , who has been promoting a number of initiatives , commented : ‘ It reflects the workforce 's commitment to better safety standards . ’
5 ‘ We 're seeing a number of very interesting challenges , both within the industry and within the organisation .
6 the formula assumes that at any er as as of the first of April , half the work has been done on all erm files then outstanding , we 've gone into this before , where er we think that that 's er er a correct statistical way of erm dealing with things , if therefore you cut the number of er files which are going in , then erm , er I take it if you 're cutting the number of stage two files which are being passed over , and that 's the area where you 're most fighting at er at time we hope , and it has a very , very considerable impact on workload for next year .
7 Well we 're doing a number of things .
8 We 're following a number of enquiries and hope … ’
9 We 're planning a number of events at the moment .
10 OUP 's Clarendon Studies in the History of Art series , devoted to the publication of recent research are releasing a number of important new titles .
11 The final year Hotel and Catering Management degree students at the University of Huddersfield are compiling a number of reports focusing on the domestic hotel market in various international locations .
12 The RUC say they are investigating a number of complaints .
13 Police are interviewing a number of witnesses .
14 We are considering a number of new proposals .
15 Over the past couple of years , Waverley Borough Council have been considering a number of plans to redevelop the area and it was recently decided that because of the state of the building it should be demolished .
16 Even as the salesmen are expounding the virtues of the paperless office the systems their customers install are doubling the number of printed pages produced by businesses every three years .
17 IN MEMORY of three colleagues who died last year , Education Department staff at Torpichen Street have been holding a number of events to raise money for charity .
18 As you know I 've er been holding a number of er small meetings with staff er and one of the questions I 've been asking is whether or not there has been a need for the building presentation that we 've done for a couple of years er and generally there was the view expressed that yes it was desirable but perhaps in a different format .
19 The report that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State produced last week revealed that this year we are due to treat an extra 250,000 patients ; we are cutting the number of long ’ waiters ’ , and creating a service that is responsive to patient needs .
20 Yes , they have been doing a number of things in the past , I think the Y T S or new youth training as it is now , was a good thing , it had a lot of criticism .
21 He has been examining a number of options including staging both on Tuesday September 21 .
22 Police are questioning a number of women demonstrators and are trying to break down barricades to clear the others out of the building .
23 In your article on Britain 's unions ( April 3rd ) you seem to be using the number and size of strikes as a measure of union strength , as if the reason for the unions ' existence was to organise strikes .
24 In all these examples I 'm suggesting a number of repeats ( or parts of repeats ) fitting exactly across the knitting .
25 I mean the the formula , er , is not likely to be underestimating the number of staff we 're needing , if anything it overestimates it , we think .
26 As part of its role as a current member of IAWA , WASL will be sending a number of slides of member 's work to Eva & Co for selection for a forthcoming exhibition in 1993 in Graz .
27 In the next two chapters we shall be examining a number of different perspectives on organisations .
28 I shall be selecting a number of works for discussion in a later issue , but meanwhile should you have any queries or need advice concerning any of the points raised in the series please write in and they too will be answered in a forthcoming edition .
29 As ‘ Working Title ’ continue to expand and develop , it seems a good moment to look back at some of their prolific and varied output , and we will be screening a number of titles from ‘ MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE ’ through the powerful drama ‘ A WORLD APART ’ , scripted by Gillian Slovo , Ruth First 's daughter , and underrated films like ‘ PAPERHOUSE ’ to ‘ ROBIN HOOD ’ , scripted by John Mcgrath , and then a number of their new releases : ‘ EDWARD II ’ ( directed by Derek Jarman ) , ‘ DAKOTA ROAD ’ and ‘ DROP DEAD FRED ’ , which has been a huge box office hit in the States .
30 The Festival will be screening a number of Japanese films at the Triangle and MAC , see programme for details .
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