Example sentences of "do [verb] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be done using a number of different comparisons : |
| 2 | However , there do remain a number of cases where there are variations in the strength of glass whose surface is genuinely untouched . |
| 3 | He did paint a number of portraits , but a painting of a piebald pony in the window of his studio was so lifelike that people started to ask him to paint animals . |
| 4 | We do not yet have a complete consistent theory that unifies general relativity and quantum mechanics , but we do know a number of the features it should have . |
| 5 | The seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writers do describe a number of fruit fools , fools made from gooseberries , raspberries , strawberries , redcurrants , apples , mulberries , apricots , even from fresh figs ; but few of these dishes turn out to be the simple cream-enriched purées we know today . |
| 6 | While England sent no revivalist as famous as Moody she did send a number of famous ministers and the works of her most famous preachers were avidly bought and consumed in America . |
| 7 | Part A goes ninety one to ninety six , part B ninety six to two thousand and six , sites adjacent to the urban area in the Greater York study er which were acceptable for development because corporately the districts and the county did not think that those sites discharged a greenbelt function as the greenbelt local plan was progressed those sites were excluded from the greenbelt erm and yes , we did identify a number of sites which did not conflict with greenbelt objectives erm on the urban edge . |
| 8 | As it turned out the final Report , published in 1889 after almost five years of investigation , did embody a number of recommendations regarding the education of deaf children in future Education Acts , thus setting out for the first time proper legislation with regard to compulsory entry , ages of admission , the length of education , the size of classes , and even that Principals/Headmasters of boarding institutions had to reside on the premises . |
| 9 | However , the FoE did welcome a number of proposals they had been campaigning on for some time . |
| 10 | Although there are some significant variations between these writers , they do identify a number of implications for staff management . |
| 11 | ‘ As speech therapists , we are unable to cope with such a divergence of languages , although a number of therapists do speak a number of the West European languages ’ ( * ) . |
| 12 | Public relations agencies do employ a number of assistants and a bright young person can sometimes get employed in this category . |
| 13 | The methodology , the results and the interpretation of those results have all been questioned and criticised ( see Parsons , 1978 ) but the Hawthorne experiments do suggest a number of considerations : |
| 14 | In the money equation ADD did try a number of other variables such as the lagged inflation rate , nominal and real rates of interest and real income ( as a deviation from trend ) to obtain the most satisfactory explanation of the monetary growth process . |
| 15 | The publication of de Beauvoir 's letters to Sartre has revealed that , contrary to her repeated denials , she did have a number of sexual relationships with women . |
| 16 | Secondly , it was evident that young women did have a number of strategies of resistance . |
| 17 | The earliest known map calls the group ‘ S.Kilda ’ , and in the old Norse language the name ‘ Kelda ’ means ‘ spring ’ or ‘ well ’ , so it seems possible that the islands , which do have a number of freshwater springs , were used as a watering-place by the Vikings when they were involved in their warlike raiding and invasions of the northern parts of Britain . |
| 18 | But we do have a number of private accounts as well , where people buy a lot of flowers and prefer to pay their bills once a month . ’ |
| 19 | Er , it is n't just Alton Towers , it 's whether you should get discounts on Penguin Books it was whether you got , er , bottles of Chateau le Tour erm it , it requests for many different things and , er , you know , alright er , it we could , we could , if Alton Towers seemed to be what , er , all shareholders wanted er , perhaps we , we could consider that but , but , but we do have a number of a attractive products . |
| 20 | ’ We do get a number of public schoolgirl types doing it , and I think it 's pretty sick . |
| 21 | The Book review does include a number of British journals ( but not British newspapers ) . |
| 22 | The learner who is well on the road to being a competent reader does bring a number of things to the task , a set of skills and attributes many of which are still developing . |
| 23 | This peril is not subject to any special exclusions but does provide a number of problems . |
| 24 | Yet it does perform a number of useful functions . |
| 25 | However , it does have a number of advantages . |
| 26 | While creating a bit mapped image is quick and easy it does have a number of significant disadvantages . |
| 27 | However , the structure above does have a number of weaknesses : |
| 28 | Guy lives on the sixth floor in let me see , it 's on the it 's if , if you 're going along the corridor it 's just past the final year notice boards , it does have a number , I 've forgotten which one it is but it 's on the right hand side . |
| 29 | If the buyer does have a number of options , all of which offer the same kind of benefits the seller 's product offers , then the seller may have to concede . |
| 30 | The section of the Manifesto entitled The Institute and Professional Success does list a number of detailed objectives that might be expected to help firms increase their profitability , the most important of which is that ‘ unless required by public interest , the Institute should not seek to impose regulations which have the effect of restricting the freedom of members to succeed professionally and commercially ’ . |