Example sentences of "having a number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Achieve the effect by having a number of loudspeakers at lowish level , preferably facing in the same direction . |
| 2 | They characterise the management of secondary schools as having a number of features — many of which may be attributed to the absence of effective staff management policies . |
| 3 | There were two sons : John , the elder , became a solicitor 's clerk , dying as a bachelor in Lambeth in 1862 , while his brother Joseph , a house painter settling in Hoxton , assured the continuity of the Titford line by having a number of male children by his wife Elizabeth , née Griffiths . |
| 4 | Cameroon was something of an exception in having a number of privately owned papers : L'Echo du Cameroun , Dialogue , Le Petit Camerounais and Les Nouvelles du Mungo . |
| 5 | A male benefits from having a number of females because he fathers all their chicks . |
| 6 | The organisation having the contract is able to man up more successfully since it has its own , independent and higher salary levels and , by having a number of such contracts and also being involved in other ( development ) work for other clients , it can continue to offer its staff a sufficient variety of tasks . |
| 7 | There was a village near ours called Fontevivo which , having a number of oil and methane-gas plants , became a target for the Allied air-forces . |
| 8 | Its internal structuring , however , may be on a geographical basis in terms of area offices and on a client basis in terms of individual officials having a number of cases to deal with . |
| 9 | Ambiguity in written English may arise from different words having the same spelling ( homonyms ) or the same word having a number of meanings . |
| 10 | figure 2.3 paints a sketch of the business universe having a number of major subsystems and environmental systems which relate to the business . |
| 11 | But they 've gone along with it without recognising that there will be a cost and members opposite have consistently criticised the European parliament for having a number of buildings from which to operate . |