Example sentences of "be a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The most persistent complaint is that woman are made to feel as though they 're a number or the next case . |
| 2 | There 're a number of items er , Chair , erm , the brochure has been produced and well received . |
| 3 | So , for example , what you find is that they 're a number of features are detected by the feature demons , such as straight lines , which are either vertical , horizontal , at an angle , angles that intersect at ninety degrees , half circles , small circles , so they it was hypothesised that there were a number of feature detectors that erm were detecting features early in the pr the perception process When these features were detected or , well when these features were detected , this information fed into cognitive demons which started to respond . |
| 4 | The rip there 're a number of problems with feature analysis and you can read books on them . |
| 5 | Ah equally um , just to go off at a tangent a bit , um there 're a number of more radical theorists , in particular the um in the Bonnie Burstow book Radical Feminist Therapy , would say that um rather like with other forms of sexual crime , the people who 've been victimised , people who 've survived , are often inclined to say something along the lines of mm y'know did i did I bring it on myself kind of kind of feeling . |
| 6 | In the past there have been a number of problems with spin recoveries with light aircraft . |
| 7 | Over the years there have been a number of fatal towplane accidents caused by gliders getting too high and jerking the towplane into a steep dive . |
| 8 | Recently there have been a number of mergers between these companies which have increased this financial pressure . |
| 9 | There have been a number of significant turning points in the career of Sir Robert Haslam , which he describes as ‘ negative accidents ’ , but which turned out to have very positive results . |
| 10 | This is not to say that the National Executive Committee of the ruling party allows Nyerere total control of the party and therefore of government policy ; in fact there have always been a number of important policy issues which Nyerere has had to argue through the NEC and which he has not always won . |
| 11 | More recently , there have been a number of attempts to capture and characterize the patterns that are actually emerging in departmental organizations . |
| 12 | There had been a number of bankruptcies , and several mill owners left the trade . |
| 13 | There are often complaints of bullying in primary schools and there have been a number of research studies that have highlighted the problem . |
| 14 | Unfortunately there have been a number of cases where monies raised by voluntary activities have gone missing and , because the school is linked by name to the parents ' organisation , the schools ' reputation has suffered . |
| 15 | I am sorry to say this , but there would appear to have been a number of houses in recent times , some of the highest pedigree , which have tended to take a competitive attitude towards each other and have not been above ‘ showing off ’ to guests a butler 's mastery of such trivial accomplishments . |
| 16 | Thus , in the case of Parchment , the police committed what would have been a number of breaches of the rules had the accused been in the police station , but , simply because the supposed infractions had taken place before his arrival , the crown court held that nothing wrongful had occurred . |
| 17 | There have been a number of major scandals , the most significant being the Nye Bevan Lodge investigation in 1988 , in which residents were found to have been illegally deprived of their money , made to queue naked for baths , and subjected to other practices which included physical and sexual assault . |
| 18 | Over the years there have been a number of relief organists amongst whom are . |
| 19 | With regard to the links between criminal behaviour and inherited characteristics , there have been a number of theoretical explanations suggesting an association between criminality and particular personality characteristics . |
| 20 | There have been a number of published attempts to provide solutions to the cross-area aggregation , or ‘ areal interpolation ’ problem ( Goodchild and Lam 1980 ; Lam 1983 ) . |
| 21 | There have been a number of critiques of the IIA concept ( Tym , 1977 ; Topham , 1978 ; Etherington , 1987 ) . |
| 22 | There have been a number of evaluations of the Task Force ( Parkinson and Duffy , 1984 ; Morison , 1987 ) . |
| 23 | Already there have been a number of reports of developments of this kind . |
| 24 | In recent years , particularly in the USA , there have been a number of statements and recommendations put out by committees and similar bodies with some more authority than individual practitioners . |
| 25 | THERE have been a number of books in recent years relating the sciences to philosophical , ethical and spiritual attitudes , and expressing an essentially holistic approach to all knowledge . |
| 26 | There have been a number of other dukes , earls and barons who were deaf but who have not aspired to political life . |
| 27 | There have also been a number of memorable failures in this country , and having been caught out by one myself , I do n't believe we are too well-placed to criticise the failings of others . |
| 28 | During the week there had been a number of calls to the flat . |
| 29 | In the three centuries of its existence there have been a number of changes , notably in the equipment used . |
| 30 | There have been a number of new initiatives aimed specifically at cyclists . |