Example sentences of "of a number of [noun] on " in BNC.

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1 Some of it , notably parts of the two reports from the ACPS chimed with , although were not attributable to , the political beliefs of a number of Conservatives on the back benches in the House of Commons .
2 Of a number of works on twentieth century literature , including books on Camus and other people .
3 The reason for the increasing size of forecasts of the demand for HE into the 1990s has been the recognition of the offsetting effects of a number of factors on the falling numbers of eighteen-year-olds .
4 Many of these prices are established in organised markets ( such as the stock exchange ) which , in recent years , have been freed of a number of restrictions on their activities .
5 The legislation followed the 1987 world stock market crash which had led to a controversial four-day closure of the Hong Kong stock exchange and the subsequent arrest of a number of officials on corruption charges [ see pp. 35742 ; 36764 ; and below ] .
6 Six to ten temporary exhibitions are presented every year , and other more wide-ranging projects undertaken by the Foundation include a critical history of Vatican II in collaboration with the University of Bologna 's Institute for Religious Studies , and the publication of a number of books on the image of the black in Western art .
7 Written by the University Distinguished Professor of History at Michigan State University author of a number of books on East-West relations it is delivered in a grindingly dull style : ‘ From painting , drawing , engraving , and imagery on china-ware , Americans were left with no doubt that the Chinese were culturally as well as physically different from Europeans . ’
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