Example sentences of "a number [prep] [noun] [conj] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By September 1982 the school could witness what was in effect the opening of a new library , staffed from a number of sources and constituting a pleasant and accessible learning environment . |
| 2 | There are a number of options when setting up the financial structures for a project a trust |
| 3 | This is the creation of high quality artwork using material that may already exist in a number of forms and modifying it to suit the current need . |
| 4 | It is now likely that a student will experience ballooning a number of times while learning and will have learned to avoid moving forwards on the stick automatically . |
| 5 | This was taken by a number of experts as showing that earlier estimates had been purposely conservative and that ultimately there will turn out to be far more oil in the North Sea than currently estimated . |
| 6 | The drafter may be tempted to adopt a 'scissors and paste " approach , drawing individual clauses from a number of precedents and putting them together to form a finished product . |
| 7 | He was Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean for only five years , between 1984 and 1989 , but besides organising a number of exhibitions and doing all the other things that Keepers do , he managed — quite extraordinarily — to produce this massive three-volume catalogue of the 785 later sculptures then under his care . |
| 8 | Nine or ten motar bombs exploded in the street outside killing a number of children and injuring others . |
| 9 | The whole House will want to congratulate the British miners on doing everything that has been asked of them over a number of years and achieving that massive increase in productivity . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've had a number of opportunities and taking them , particularly in the oil industry , has sometimes been a desperate gamble . ’ |
| 11 | It 's a service which only Rentokil could offer and supply , with our broad range of experience and skills across a number of hygiene and cleaning activities . ’ |