Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] [prep] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boesky 's cooperation with the regulatory authorities has resulted in a number of other SEC investigations . |
| 2 | The relative esteem in which stones have been held at different times has rested on a number of factors . |
| 3 | The role of small scale production units has increased in a number of industries . |
| 4 | On May 9 the Speaker of the House of Representatives , Arthit Urairat , announced that the government and opposition parties had agreed on a number of constitutional revisions , including one which would bar a non-elected person , such as Suchinda , from becoming Prime Minister . |
| 5 | During the past few years , relationships between the CNAA and the polytechnics have developed in a number of ways , including the changes in validation arrangements described earlier in this chapter . |
| 6 | In the last few years , however , relaxations in Institution rules and instances of surveying practices becoming public companies have coincided with a number of applications being made to the RICS for permission to practise by way of a corporate structure with limited liability . |
| 7 | The question of an effective British veto on American use of British bases has surfaced on a number of occasions since 1952 . |
| 8 | It is also interesting to note how relations have worsened with a number of élite institutions which have been identified with paternalist and consensual values — universities , the Church of England , the senior civil service , the BBC and One Nation Conservatism . |
| 9 | A working group made up of clinicians , consultants , GPs and other health professionals has looked at a number of options and has recommended that services be consolidated , and accommodation improvements made , at the Chest Hospital . |
| 10 | MYSTERY glass explosions have occurred at a number of UK buildings constructed during the last decade . |
| 11 | In addition to a host of talented players from the Italian First Division , which in effect makes the student representative side the understudy to the full Italian XV , the selectors have drafted in a number of seasoned internationals ( nine in all ) , among them classy Milano centre-cum-fly-half Massimo Bonomi and World Cup forwards Massimo Giovancili , Roberto Saetti and Carlo Cecchinato . |
| 12 | An officers report to Monday 's committee says standards have fallen over a number of years . |
| 13 | Reactions to the riots have concentrated on a number of key variables that are said to characterize the localities in which the riots have occurred . |
| 14 | The position of women has changed in a number of ways , such that a wife does not have to put up with an unsatisfactory marriage in the way that her mother might well have done . |
| 15 | The research councils have responded with a number of initiatives and programmes which emphasises selectivity and applications-relevance in the funding of research . |