Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] [prep] a number " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I 've worked at a number of occupations that put me into positions of possible danger . |
| 2 | I 've worked with a number of carpenters and joiners and come tea-break , we 've all sat there with our nice hot cup of tea/coffee and that gradual layer of dust on top . |
| 3 | I 've worked in a number of centres where the fire alarm has been set off by the heat from our lights . |
| 4 | Is my hon. Friend aware that I have lived for a number of years without any such advice , and I can not believe that it is really necessary ? |
| 5 | I have flown with a number of people who , with the slightest lowering of the nose or the gentlest stall , look as though they are having an epileptic fit . |
| 6 | ‘ But since Sir Charles died , I have heard about a number of things that seem to be supernatural . |
| 7 | I have spoken to a number of engine conversion kit suppliers and the almost unanimous response has been ‘ ooooogh the 6 cyl , that 's a difficult conversion … it needs extensive mods to the bulkhead … or … the propshaft needs changing , the gearbox needs moving . |
| 8 | I have corresponded with a number of individuals and organisations including the National Farmers Union and a local MP . |
| 9 | This change in the law and in the locus of power will not end the debate , which has prevailed for a number of years , about control of the curriculum of schools ; such a debate emerged once the content of the curriculum become a controversial subject in the 1960s and has continued since . |
| 10 | The resolution of the problem of compensation and betterment , which has changed on a number of occasions according to political philosophy , has not affected the system of plan and control . |
| 11 | The dispute between Huddersfield Polytechnic and Kirklees Metropolitan Council which has continued for a number of years illustrates most of the tensions which may develop between a polytechnic and its local authority . |
| 12 | It is the high stakes , no doubt , allied to the frustration of failing to achieve personal ambitions , which have led to a number of outbreaks this season on the professional Tours . |
| 13 | ‘ The first film I did was with these other guys who were a little camera shy , ’ recalls Rod , who has appeared in a number of Sara 's group sex films . |
| 14 | Yes , I think for a lot of people that 's true and I do n't denigrate that because I think a lot of good work goes on in the Women 's Institute , but what we are particularly interested in is in the professional craftsman , the craftsman who has trained for a number of year to produce extremely good work , and what we try to do is to make that work more available to the public in a number of ways . |
| 15 | Sara , a 34-year-old office worker who has starred in a number of group sex videos , claims to have no fears of contracting sexually-transmitted diseases . |
| 16 | You 've come to a number of those I guess ? |
| 17 | It was suggested that she hated the wet and dreary Balmoral holidays , that she suffered from anorexia , that she had quarrelled with a number of the Prince 's household and staff , that she was only interested in clothes , that she was a lover of discotheques and neglected her husband . |
| 18 | School had been tiring at first on transfer but she had soon got used to it : originally she had belonged to a number of clubs in the early day ( Thursday ) when all such activities take place , but now preferred to go home early . |
| 19 | She moved along the counter to where , beneath it , on a narrow table , there stood a number of trays and , taking up the brass hammer , she broke the edge of the toffee and put four pieces into a newspaper cone that she had taken from a number stacked up by the side of the tray . |
| 20 | As one farmer , who had participated in a number of courses , put it , ‘ it could assist the instructor and liven up the learning process ’ . |
| 21 | Police in the Wear Valley are looking for thieves who have struck in a number of gardens and stolen ornamental garden furniture . |
| 22 | she 's worked in a number of different areas |
| 23 | We 've seen in a number of areas , the development of regional net environmental networks , which we have been directly involved in helping develop . |
| 24 | Right th the erm I accept that looking at work carried out , which is what we 've got in a number of instances , like |
| 25 | Tt and I think we 've identified in a number of different factors erm er behind that , that trend and that erm i in a sense there 's , there 's the kind of distinction between the ideological approach and the pragmatic approach in that we , we 've seen there is a , I think a , a broad ideological impetus behind the reform in the sense that there is this long-term commitment to overthrowing feudalism . |
| 26 | my Lord we have said in a number of places the claims are erm unlawful and we refer to the fact that the claims come out of the central fund bi-law |
| 27 | In the UK we have disposed of a number of non-strategic assets for a total of £208 million , which will be received in 1993 , while in February this year we also disposed of our remaining businesses in Australia and withdrew from that country . |
| 28 | Word-list style is a careful style in his terms ( but as we have shown in a number of publications , Labov 's predictions about the stylistic continuum did not work in this divergent-dialect community in the way that they had worked in New York City ) . |
| 29 | We have known for a number of years that we with every other council in the land , are facing the government that does not believe in local government . |
| 30 | The case of leisure is an example of the general issue of ‘ observability ’ which we have discussed at a number of points in these Lectures . |