Example sentences of "[vb past] a number of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He also contributed a number of papers to the Institute 's Transactions and to Loudon 's Architectural Magazine . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She demonstrated a number of instruments from her large collection and talked about how to introduce children to music . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | George Bush 's budget for fiscal 1992 proposed a number of changes to the EITC , such as credit for health-insurance premiums . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | On the self-administered General Health Questionnaire ( GHQ ) at initial interview , about one-third of the supporters reported a number of symptoms of acute stress sufficient to suggest a need for psychiatric attention ’ . |
| 14 | The necessary changes involved a number of definitions in the Regulations being brought into line with those contained in the latest ( 6th Edition ) of Annex 13 . |
| 15 | Sex discrimination in employment is a matter dealt with by European law , and the tribunal referred a number of questions to the European Court of Justice which held , inter alia , that the Order in Council under which the certificate was issued was inconsistent with a requirement of EC law that the right of men and women to equal treatment recognized by EC law should be effectively protected by national legal systems . |
| 16 | Between October 1989 and March 1990 there occurred a number of attacks on Spanish diplomatic missions : on Oct. 26 , 1989 , an explosive device wrecked the car of the Spanish consul-general in Rotterdam ; the following day two grenades were launched against a Spanish embassy building in The Hague ; on Dec. 6 a bomb exploded at the embassy itself . |
| 17 | Murray , who was employed at the time as the works manager at the premises in Broadfold Road , Bridge of Don , has denied a total of 13 charges , including four allegations that he assaulted a number of men on various occasions by injecting them with either heroin or Temgesic . |
| 18 | NEW Employment Secretary David Hunt turned the spotlight on training yesterday when he visited a number of sites in Cheshire and Merseyside . |
| 19 | WHEN Laszlo Polgar , a Hungarian vocational school teacher , married his Ukrainian wife , Klara , in 1965 he carefully studied a number of books on ‘ fathering ’ . |
| 20 | The appellant committed a number of offences including stealing cheque books and using the cheques to obtain cash and various goods ; stealing a car which was then sold with false number plates , and two burglaries and the theft of another car . |
| 21 | ( 1981 ) compared a number of plants in the engineering industry in Britain and West Germany . |
| 22 | A member of the research team interviewed a number of pupils in two classes who had tackled the questions . |
| 23 | We received a number of letters in response to Lisa Robillard 's letter on SEXISM . |
| 24 | During 1990 SCOTVEC received a number of requests regarding the possibility of certification of National Certificate Modules where students are taught and assessed in a language other than English . |
| 25 | In the case of Esdaile v IRC 20 TC 700 , the taxpayer who received a number of sums from her trust sought to defeat assessments under Case III of Schedule D on the grounds that the payments were really loans to her . |
| 26 | Most departments received a number of suggestions for changes which they could implement immediately and , consequently , I visited the school towards the end of the summer term to interview many of the staff , particularly heads of department , about any changes which had resulted . |
| 27 | Progress towards political diversity under Vietnam 's , primarily economic , Doi Moi or " rejuvenation " campaign [ see p. 36696 ] suffered a number of setbacks during the latter half of 1989 , as CPV leaders reacted with some unease at the trend towards pluralism among their communist allies in Eastern Europe . |
| 28 | First of all , increased interest in the female spectator has in recent years spawned a number of collections of film criticism which ask important new questions of feminist film theorists . |
| 29 | He granted a number of remissions of tolls on ships in the port of London — to the bishop of London ( S 1788 ) , for example , to the bishop of Rochester ( CS 152 : S 88 ) , to the abbess of Minster-in-Thanet ( CS 149 : S 86 ; CS 150 : S 87 ; CS 177 : S 91 ) and to the bishop of Worcester ( CS 171 : S 98 ) . |
| 30 | One might expect that being a chant leader afforded a number of privileges within the group , but this in fact was not the case . |