Example sentences of "[vb past] a number of [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also contributed a number of papers to the Institute 's Transactions and to Loudon 's Architectural Magazine . |
| 2 | George Bush 's budget for fiscal 1992 proposed a number of changes to the EITC , such as credit for health-insurance premiums . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The congress approved a number of amendments to the party constitution [ see p. 35577 for amendments approved at 13th congress ] . |
| 6 | On Oct. 9 the Mozambique legislature approved a number of amendments to the Constitution which effectively incorporated the terms of Protocol Number 3 signed between the government and Renamo on March 12 and covering arrangements for the future electoral system [ see p. 38804 ] . |
| 7 | On Dec. 23 the Assembly approved a number of amendments to foreign investment legislation in order to attract more foreign companies . |
| 8 | This allowed a number of questions to be to be formulated from the activity lists ( Fig 11.15 ) for discussion with all those persons in the EPH dealing with financial matters , the answers being noted on a separate formatted sheet . |
| 9 | Councillor Ian MacDonald and former Councillor Spencer Rosie made a number of requests to officials for copies of the document . |
| 10 | My hon. Friend will know that at the end of November we made a number of requests to the Government of Libya . |
| 11 | The Director-General made a number of visits to regions , branches , practices and local government offices , and spoke at meetings , conferences and dinners to members , clients and representatives of the construction industry and the public . |
| 12 | Consequently , early in 1985 we made a number of visits to schools in order to interview non-respondents and to request them to fill in the questionnaire orally . |
| 13 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , in Scotland we made a number of changes to the linkages of weather stations with local areas . |
| 14 | ( In 1874 , whilst at her favourite residence at Osborne in the Isle of Wight , Queen Victoria made a number of trips to the post office at nearby Whippingham where she would stay for some hours comforting a dying deaf woman , Mrs. Elizabeth Tuffield , nee Groves . |
| 15 | As I have emphasised three times , the previous Select Committee on Health and Social Services made a number of pleas to the Government not to get us into the position that we are in now . |
| 16 | The Company did very well despite this attitude to its imports ; in the 1660s it made a number of loans to the government , amounting altogether to £130,000 , and in the 1680s it regularly paid 10,000 guineas a year , which came to about 1 per cent of the King 's total revenue . |
| 17 | This included a number of payments to men and women for various services rendered but who were not in every case employees as such . |
| 18 | He exhibited a number of specimens to the Royal Society in 1664 , and two years later published an account of another successful experiment in preserving ‘ Birds taken out of the Egge ’ , so as to observe ‘ the Process of Nature in the Formation of a Chick ’ . |
| 19 | At the end of a three-day meeting the ANC 's national executive committee ( NEC ) on Nov. 25 adopted a new strategic policy which offered a number of concessions to the government . |
| 20 | He attributed earlier failures to inadequate intelligence and sent a number of agents to England , including an engineer skilled in map-making , Captain Louis de la Rozière , who was installed , supposedly as a diplomat , in London . |
| 21 | Epstein had one of the most important collections of African and Oceanic sculpture ever assembled in this country and introduced a number of contemporaries to non-European art ; most recent scholarship puts the beginning of his collecting activity in 1912 when it is documented but Gardiner places it in 1904 , ( i.e. before Derain and Picasso ) when Epstein was a penniless student in Paris . |
| 22 | Over those years Eliot would visit him during what became regular trips to the United States ; he also wrote a number of letters to those in authority in order to ease his conditions : he talks about the time Pound should be allowed to spend alone , for example , and the condition of the buildings in which he was confined . |
| 23 | I wrote a number of letters to Labour 's spokesman on such matters , asking him to clarify Labour 's spending pledges . |
| 24 | Now I had a number of answers to this . |
| 25 | the Board has responded to the government with regard to the pensions issue , and suggested a number of improvements to the government 's proposals . |
| 26 | At the closure of the session he suggested a number of measures to be undertaken to " promulgate and propagate the essence of the new laws " , including the nationwide education of party cadres and the people through study classes , and increased media coverage . |