Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [art] number of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He holds a number of directorships , is a member of learned institutes , an author , is a recipient of many awards and honours and hold many offices , including some as chairman in a wide range of organisations , including some in the voluntary sector and many concerned with education and training . |
| 2 | Once an advertiser knows the ACORN types he wants to aim at , he has a number of options . |
| 3 | He 's done extremely well , and he has a number of reports and examined every possible area . |
| 4 | Once an associate of criminals such as the Krays and Richardsons , he has a number of convictions for violent crime . |
| 5 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 6 | He bequeathes a number of books : a ‘ little booke of praiers ’ and service books belonging to his chapel , ‘ my saulter clasped with silver ’ , and ‘ my grete booke called saint Grall ’ ( British Library Royal MS 14 . |
| 7 | At the outset he reviews a number of definitions , the main two economic ones being to associate taxes with ‘ shifting ’ and with ‘ tailor-making ’ . |
| 8 | He quotes a number of examples in illustration , which include the administration of cannabis by teenage babysitters ( Schwartz et al . , |
| 9 | For as he increases the number of categories in terms of which phenomena are to be explained , he at the same time multiplies the number of relations between them ; and since each factor is in some way dependent on a large number of others , the resulting range of possible variations is immense . |
| 10 | As evidence of the difficulty of eschewing individualism he criticises a number of attempts to elaborate a conception of the state as the tool of the ruling class which are individualist . |
| 11 | Arriving at the third floor , he finds a number of students in the corridor , and wounds three of them . |
| 12 | Instead he explores a number of aspects that all inhere in a state of contemplative awareness of a reality beyond time . |
| 13 | For example , he gives a number of cases of brotherly rivalry in patrilineal , patrilocal , and patriarchal Kabylia . |
| 14 | In the Life , he makes a number of references — to Johnson 's high regard for a man he knew to be in hiding in London on account of having borne arms in the ‘ 45 ; to the curious fact that Johnson wrote almost not at all during the year 1745 — though Boswell , a windblown reed at best where politics were concerned , attributes this to preparation for the great Dictionary , rather than to any politically-induced melancholia . |
| 15 | In describing his principles for applying schema to the understanding of events he makes a number of points of relevance here . |
| 16 | The Potter whose grandmother employed the second and third kitchenmaids in question was , M. André Simon tells me , Major Matthew Connolly ( father of Mr Cyril Connolly ) ; and with his felicitous evocation of a mid-Victorian country breakfast table and those second and third kitchenmaids pounding away at the ham and tongue for potting he makes a number of points , most relevant of which concerns the kitchenmaids . |