Example sentences of "a number of [noun pl] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of effects help the vermiculite to protect the glass fibre from the effects of heat . |
| 2 | Whilst not retracting anything that has been said about the inappropriateness of either a corporeal God or a God who is a person , it has to be said that interpreting certain historical events as the actions of God is the primary way in which a number of religions understand the divine nature . |
| 3 | A number of developments followed the collapse of the Taylor trial . |
| 4 | In a number of wells studied the Micro SFL and Formation Density Log were influenced by hole break-out . |
| 5 | Put a number of dashes to represent the number of letters in the word . |
| 6 | He said that a number of vice-chancellors see the fees scheme as a way of getting the Government off the universities ' backs , giving them freedom from detailed control . |
| 7 | We have now a number of equations describing the same thing . |
| 8 | The computer salesperson will have a number of systems to suit the needs and resources of different customers . |
| 9 | We , in our observations so far of a number of teachers using the same program teaching units , have been more impressed by the disparity of the lessons than by their similarity . |
| 10 | The simple premise ( 1 ) of the previous example is here replaced by a number of laws governing the behaviour of light , namely the laws of reflection and refraction of light and assertions about the dependence of the degree of refraction on colour . |
| 11 | The MSC Committee for Wales , under the chairmanship of Sir Melvyn Rosser , has also promoted a number of surveys to review the working out of some of its services , including a study of manpower services in mid-Wales as part of a wider examination of manpower problems in rural areas . |
| 12 | As part of the campaign to increase the efficiency of the civil division of the Court of Appeal , the Master of the Rolls , Sir John Donaldson ( as he then was ) , has introduced a number of innovations following the recommendations of Lord Scarman 's Working Party ( Practice Note , [ 1982 ] 1 WLR 1312 , as amended by Practice Note , [ 1983 ] 1 WLR 598 ) . |
| 13 | A number of newspapers claimed the Princess was forced by the Queen to go on the tour against her will , as a way of demonstrating there was no rift between her and the Prince . |
| 14 | We are closely monitoring the development of the virus , its current and likely future impact on mortality rates and have produced a number of bulletins summarising the results of our work . |
| 15 | This remarkable study has provided the stimulus for a number of investigations employing the ‘ candidate gene ’ strategy , to search for genes involved in a predisposition to alcohol induced liver injury . |
| 16 | There were cited to your Lordships a number of cases involving the abstraction of moneys from a limited company by a person who was in a position to give the consent of the company to the abstraction . |
| 17 | Indeed , where it has found that the statement of reasons fails to fulfil the requirements of Article 190 , the Court has in a number of cases annulled the measure in question . |
| 18 | There were therefore a number of attempts to avoid the conclusion that there had been a big bang . |
| 19 | There have been a number of attempts to understand the social-psychological dynamics of the belief in a world conspiracy . |
| 20 | In 1936 the National Executive Committee rejected a number of proposals to change the party Constitution , most of them inspired by the Constituency Party Association.25 After the Edinburgh Conference , in November 1936 , a Constituency Party Association conference was held in London at which representatives of local Labour parties supported the demand that they should be free to elect the Constituency representatives on the National Executive without the unions being involved . |
| 21 | We 've also held a conference of a more general kind on the situation of refugees in the United Kingdom , in which a report was produced , that particularly highlighted the legal situation of the refugees , that had quite an impact among international organizations like United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , which has served as basis for a number of proposals to change the present legal regime of refugees in the UK . |
| 22 | A number of anecdotes relate the corruption , greed and ignorance of the ulema and the discontent felt at the introduction of the administrative practices of high Islam and especially its fiscal policy . |
| 23 | Article Five set out a number of principles governing the two states ' foreign policies . |
| 24 | A number of moves to liberalize the economy were announced in the wake of Mengistu 's March speech on the introduction of a mixed economy . |
| 25 | A number of settlements require the formal approval of the court . |
| 26 | Over the past couple of years , Waverley Borough Council have been considering a number of plans to redevelop the area and it was recently decided that because of the state of the building it should be demolished . |
| 27 | William Dement conducted a number of experiments to establish the extent to which subjects lost track of time during REM sleep , in association with Nathaniel Kleitman and Edward Wolpert . |
| 28 | Recently , a number of firms changed the way they charge . |
| 29 | In recent years there have been a number of studies reporting the isolation of mycobacteria from patients with Crohn 's disease , but it has been reports of the isolation of M paratuberculosis , which have generated the greatest interest . |
| 30 | A number of studies support the need for case managers to possess and to exercise ‘ human relations skills ’ ( Challis , 1992 ; Cooney , 1992 ; Davies , 1992 ) . |