Example sentences of "[vb past] a number of [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | WHEN Laszlo Polgar , a Hungarian vocational school teacher , married his Ukrainian wife , Klara , in 1965 he carefully studied a number of books on ‘ fathering ’ . |
| 5 | In the run-up to the final , played a number of games on a knock-out basis , culminating in an area final followed by the County semi-final , before winning the County overall on at the Otley Bowls Club near Ipswich . |
| 6 | My hon. Friend the Member for Clackmannan asked a number of questions on Tuesday regarding the reserves , and perhaps the Minister could provide some of the answers this evening . |
| 7 | FoE made a number of recommendations on taxes , incentives and greater spending on research ( including the government 's Energy Efficiency Office , which , remarkably , given the nature of the times , saw its budget restricted to £15 million a year for two years in succession — a loss in real terms ) . |
| 8 | We agreed a number of statements on foreign policy issues . |
| 9 | By the close of the 1830s Port Mill was leased from the Lewis family by a Mr J. George , who operated a number of boats on the canal . |
| 10 | In the '70s , the family enjoyed a number of hits on Stax and , while Pop retains a firm belief in the efficacy of prayer , he continues to wrap his social and spiritual concerns in the funkiest of backbeats . |
| 11 | Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania undertook a number of commitments on Baltic co-operation in late March and April . |
| 12 | A speciality of his was the supply of chimney-pieces and other elements of interior decoration , and of funerary monuments ; and an album of his designs of this type , later acquired by the library of the American Institute of Architects in Washington , indicates that he employed a number of carvers on a regular basis — the two principal names are Alexander van der Hagen and John Nelson of Shrewsbury [ qq.v. ] — to execute them . |
| 13 | The 1980s saw a number of reports on community care that cited low funding and poor planning and coordination of projects as being responsible for the lack of a developed community care initiative to support all people , including the elderly , in the community in their own homes . |
| 14 | Following the destruction of the main mill , the company converted a number of buildings on the opposite side of the road and purchased a second site , previously used for the manufacture of incubators . |
| 15 | The DES ran a number of conferences on Language in Colleges of Education , starting at Lady Spencer Churchill College in September 1971 , and at Coloma College in July 1973 . |
| 16 | She wrote a number of articles on historic textiles and her book Decorative Needlework ( 1893 ) , shows that , like her father , her ideas developed from an interest in traditional techniques . |
| 17 | He edited two series of periodicals directed towards Scottish Episcopalians , wrote a number of works on liturgical theology , contributed articles to the Encyclopaedia Britannica ( 1874–5 ) , and produced editions of several medieval missals . |
| 18 | He now wrote a number of books on it intended for the general reader , including History of Astronomy ( 1909 ) and The Wonder and the Glory of the Stars ( 1926 ) . |
| 19 | Thirdly , he was a politician and in the last 20 years of his life , he gave 3 political speeches a week in different parts of the country and wrote a number of books on the train going from one speaking engagement to another to avoid wasting time . |
| 20 | In the display the Godfather 's desk had a number of books on it ; the waxworks owner reached for them one by one . |
| 21 | He published a number of articles on optics , petrology , and palaeontology , largely in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal ; and , although his many innovations did not receive the recognition they deserved , his eponymous prism ensured that his name was not forgotten . |
| 22 | ( And why should n't the kind of holism that I am espousing not help to make processes such as mental imagery more intelligible to us — Piaget published a number of experiments on the development of imagery . ) |
| 23 | She published a number of books on Ethiopia . |
| 24 | The Podensac , who held a number of strong-points on the Garonne , had married into the bourgeois family of Caillau at Bordeaux in 1293 and thus brought much of their fortune into the Albret inheritance . |