Example sentences of "[verb] a number of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As with the 2D the manufacturer has designed a number of fittings for it . |
| 2 | England had lost fewer players than most countries to World Series Cricket and had won a number of rubbers as a result but , when the armistice was signed , England 's limitations were soon exposed . |
| 3 | AXA has recently won a number of awards for its unit trust performance . |
| 4 | He was an original member of the Philobiblon Society , founded in 1853 by his friend Richard Monckton Milnes ( later first Baron Houghton , q.v. ) , and for whose publications , the Miscellanies , he contributed a number of articles about original documents connected with Venetian painters of the sixteenth century . |
| 5 | He also contributed a number of papers to the Institute 's Transactions and to Loudon 's Architectural Magazine . |
| 6 | They suggest a number of reasons for this . |
| 7 | The building regulations of the Department of the Environment suggest a number of ways of doing this . |
| 8 | It is also not uncommon for hospitals to request a number of nurses from an agency without detailing the areas the nurses will be required to work in until they report for duty . |
| 9 | In its Memorandum , circulated at the start of the revision process , the United States Government argued that ‘ Letters rogatory are a useful but scarcely perfect technique for securing evidence from persons abroad ’ and listed a number of limitations of the technique , limitations which were especially important where the two legal systems involved differed in their practice . |
| 10 | Sociologists and anthropologists provide a number of theories for this far from equitable distribution of talent . |
| 11 | One submission to BACS can initiate a number of payments to beneficiaries who then receive value two working days later , the same day that the company account is debited . |
| 12 | She demonstrated a number of instruments from her large collection and talked about how to introduce children to music . |
| 13 | It is an insurance contract which covers a number of items against mechanical failure . |
| 14 | This extension of provision , encouraged by central government paying fees through supplementary benefit , drew a number of people of modest or no private means into the private sector . |
| 15 | LAMDA ( London Academy of Music and Drama ) runs a one-year course for overseas students only , which although not set up as a post-graduate course may include a number of students with extensive university theatre experience as well as some professional experience . |
| 16 | The taxing master disallowed a number of items on the ground that they were ‘ not mortgagee 's costs , that is , such costs as mortgagees are entitled to against the property in mortgage . ’ |
| 17 | Others of his early works are more conventionally neo-classical in manner , but he also designed a number of churches in the Gothic style , some of which — notably that in Rode Hill , Somerset ( 1822–4 ) — are highly , indeed bizarrely , individual , while his Devizes Castle , Wiltshire ( c .1840 ) is in a neo-Norman idiom . |
| 18 | From the early 1820s onwards he also designed a number of churches in a conventional Gothic style , but in some of his later works , such as his alterations to Broughton Hall , Yorkshire ( 1838–41 ) and Flasby Hall , Yorkshire ( 1840 ) he experimented with the picturesque Italianate manner . |
| 19 | The Directors propose a number of changes to the two existing schemes , the British Gas Employee Profit Sharing Scheme and the British Gas Sharesave Scheme . |
| 20 | In an 80-page report leaked to the press on both sides of the Atlantic , the PLO described a number of meetings between Ali Akbar Mohtashemi , the Iranian minister of the interior , Ahmed Jibril of the PFLP — GC and other officials in the late summer of 1988 to plan a revenge attack on an American airliner . |
| 21 | Freud and his followers — and his former followers — described a number of mechanisms by which people protect or distort themselves , mechanisms such as repression , sublimation , projection , and so on . |
| 22 | George Bush 's budget for fiscal 1992 proposed a number of changes to the EITC , such as credit for health-insurance premiums . |
| 23 | In a wide-ranging television interview on Nov. 9 President François Mitterrand proposed a number of changes to the Constitution , including a reduction in the president 's term from seven " at least " to six years , a reduction of presidential powers and a corresponding increase in the powers of the Prime Minister and the National Assembly , a strengthening of the independence of the judiciary ( including ending ministerial immunity from prosecution in ordinary courts ) , and greater scope for the use of referendums . |
| 24 | In this way bank bills may be re-discounted a number of times before maturity . |
| 25 | Grishman ( 1986 ) specifies a number of problems in reversing this procedure to use transformational grammars for the a recognition procedure : |
| 26 | This instruction specifies a number of words to be moved n , a source , and a destination address . |
| 27 | In this chapter , we resume our discussion of word order as a textual strategy ( rather than a grammatical feature ) and explore a number of ways in which its role in controlling information flow can be explained . |
| 28 | Friday 's meeting , to be held at Walsall 's Bescot stadium , will also discuss a number of changes to League rules . |
| 29 | The book edited by Davies and Runcom ( 1980 ) contains a number of papers on the various suggested mechanisms . |
| 30 | The text of the 1905 Convention is much fuller when compared with the terse formulation of its predecessor , and it contains a number of changes of principle . |