Example sentences of "be [art] number [prep] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been a number of studies on isolated words which explore the trade-off between discriminability of lexical items , and the amount of phonemic information used in their representation . |
| 2 | Thank you erm I hardly ever comment on these but I just , I was n't sure what because quite often these things go under another guise , but there are a number of schemes on the drawing board for investigation as you all know and Mr will know some of those they 've been around for , for some years . |
| 3 | There are a number of underlays on the market , but probably the two best general types are those made from solid sponge rubber — which should not be confused with foam rubber or ripple rubber , neither of which is suitable — and those made from a combination of animal hair and jute with a coating of rubber on both sides . |
| 4 | I am sure that my hon. Friend recognises that there are a number of views on this subject . |
| 5 | There are a number of products on the market intended fro damp-proofing the interior of damp walls . |
| 6 | There are a number of texts on the nature of volcanic activity and the development of volcanic landforms . |
| 7 | As well as the casino , there are a number of bars on board . |
| 8 | There are a number of books on contemporary world politics and you 've got some recommended er for you to read . |
| 9 | There are a number of bodies on which both the trade and librarians are represented . |
| 10 | As the reduction in the strength of the Royal Air Force in terms of air frames proceeds , there will be a number of crews on whom we can call should it be necessary to reactivate those aircraft . |
| 11 | If so , how does he justify the fear that there may be a number of fingers on the disintegrating Soviet strategic deterrent , when at the same time he seeks to justify the proliferation of nuclear strategic deterrents in the hands of France , the United Kingdom and the United States ? |
| 12 | Erm , there 's going to be a number of questions on the ho of er selection and testing , including stuff on reliability and validity . |
| 13 | And er there 'll be a number of questions on stress and a number of questions on leadership . |
| 14 | There will also be a number of paintings on offer , including a number of still lifes and capricci . |
| 15 | He had reached Blakemere , which was only two miles further on , when he pondered if he should take another direction and make his way to the river , but the thought that even this far out there 'd be a number of people on the banks today , mostly youngsters , he guessed , swimming or playing the usual dangerous game of swinging out over the river on a rope attached to a tree branch , deterred him . |
| 16 | There were a number of reports on his desk , almost all of them negative , including one from the officer in charge of the search around Jordan 's farm . |
| 17 | In mid-1990 there were a number of attacks on foreigners and refugee centres . |
| 18 | During last year there were a number of occasions on which members made personal verbal attacks on other members . |
| 19 | In general , it can be shown that for a large sample of size , n , and where all the elements of the matrices and are unrestricted , the statistic : is distributed as a chi-square variate with g degrees of freedom where , once again , g is the number of restrictions on the model . |
| 20 | Say , if two definitions p1 and p2 describe nodes n1 and n2 in the tree , then the distance d ( p1 , p2 ) is the number of edges on a shortest path in the tree from n1 to n2 . |