Example sentences of "[verb] a number [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lederer & Mendelow ( 1989 ) suggest a number of guide-lines which should be considered when planning : |
| 2 | Johnes and Taylor provide estimates of non-completion rates for the 1979 and 1980 entry cohorts into each university and suggest a number of reasons which may have contributed to these inter-university differences . |
| 3 | He then listed a number of points which ‘ should be borne in mind in exercising the discretion . ’ |
| 4 | It incorporates a number of points which are critical to the analysis of the processes of political communication : |
| 5 | You can buy a number of products which will allow your fish to feed while you are away , including automatic feeders and holiday blocks , but for a normal two week vacation your adult fish will do just fine on what they can find in the tank . |
| 6 | I never came across an instance of this , though I encountered a number of individuals who had just killed someone , including a complacent fourteen-year-old near Bilen . |
| 7 | The statutory definition of " sale " encapsulated in s2 of SGA 1979 contains a number of ingredients which distinguish sale from other transactions . |
| 8 | English law contains a number of offences which penalize the driving of a car on a road in a manner which may cause harm . |
| 9 | The report , Proposals for statutory water objectives , contains a number of proposals which include |
| 10 | This disk contains a number of utilities which require decompression to the hard disk using StuffIt which is provided . |
| 11 | The i.c. contains a number of amplifiers whose non-inverting ( + ) inputs are controlled from a resistor or potential divider chain , see Fig. 2 . |
| 12 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 13 | finally it was proposed that the meeting elect a number of people who , together with the original organisers , would constitute a new committee . |
| 14 | it should also be possible to discover a number of laws which can be used to assist parallelism introduction , for example by making a sequential program more amenable to it , or speeding up the behaviour of a parallel network . |
| 15 | A bald statement that the exercise of public functions may be challenged by judicial review does not , however , tell us all there is to know about the sort of decisions which are amenable to judicial review ; and so now we must consider a number of distinctions which can be drawn between types of public functions . |
| 16 | 2 If a word has a number of meanings which are a little different , then they are printed one after another and numbered . |
| 17 | The Faculty has a number of scholarships which are used mostly to support research students . |
| 18 | In Britain , accent has a number of origins which may be regional , social or ethnic . |
| 19 | The farm business has a number of characteristics which set it apart from other small-scale enterprises . |
| 20 | Bibliotheca has a number of features which are improvements on existing text retrieval systems , including the non-necessity for indexing , the non-occurrence of retrieval noise and suitability for general users since any word can be retrieved . |
| 21 | But fretbuzz is a very subjective thing ; I 've met a number of players who will sacrifice all for a low playing action and are quite happy to put up with extraneous noises that others would run a mile to avoid . |
| 22 | The concluding chapter by Roy Parker takes an overview of child care research , identifying and developing a number of themes which have echoes elsewhere in the book . |
| 23 | The identification of particular EEG/EOG signs with a sleep state in which people are likely to be dreaming made it feasible to answer a number of questions which had previously been a matter for speculation , and which are perennially asked by ordinary people . |
| 24 | The results of this study reveal a number of factors which vary the likelihood of plural references being made in a continuation task . |
| 25 | It is well known that teachers undertake a number of tasks which appear to be additional to their contractual duties and so voluntary . |
| 26 | Though you may identify a number of questions which may occur to your audience it is not necessary to answer all of them in your presentation . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | However , the FoE did welcome a number of proposals they had been campaigning on for some time . |
| 29 | The general structure of this unitary grant system was well designed to achieve these purposes , but the detailed arrangements incorporated a number of elements which either detracted somewhat from the equity of the system or added to its complexity . |
| 30 | Our concern in this chapter is , therefore , to highlight a number of considerations which a local church should bear in mind in pondering its evangelistic effectiveness and over-hauling its strategy . |