Example sentences of "a number [prep] [noun] and [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A working group made up of clinicians , consultants , GPs and other health professionals has looked at a number of options and has recommended that services be consolidated , and accommodation improvements made , at the Chest Hospital . |
| 2 | This month 's is going to be a very practical lesson featuring a number of phrases and riffs from various musical situations that use 4th intervals . |
| 3 | The potential pathogenicity of free radicals has been emphasised by recent work which suggests that reactive oxygen metabolities are not just one of a number of mediators and cytokines involved in the inflammatory process in inflammatory bowel disease but may have a pivotal role by initiating the expression of genes controlling may other aspects of the inflammatory , immune , and acute phase response , by activation of the transcription factor NF-kΒ . |
| 4 | Work in the field is scattered between a number of approaches and takes as its subject differing historical periods and geographical areas . |
| 5 | This has taken a number of forms and has not spread as widely as some of its supporters might have hoped . |
| 6 | In fairness , it must be said that the professions have worked out a number of checks and balances to this system , and a common alternative to a percentage fee , hourly rates , can work out as an even more expensive open cheque drawn on the public purse . |
| 7 | Practitioners have identified a number of skills and attributes necessary to be successful including : |
| 8 | The standard molar entropies for a number of elements and compounds at 25°C are given in table 5.12 . |
| 9 | A 13-page report lists a catalogue of concerns from a number of agencies and reveals that 1,772 individuals have submitted objections . |
| 10 | The action starts with a number of implausibilities and works its way towards a world-class coincidence . |
| 11 | He has sought treatment on a number of occasions and has come to the conclusion that he can not break the habit and that what he needs and wants is a maintenance regime , preferably on heroin — something that the medical profession in Wirral does not want to give him . |
| 12 | The measure of life events used was one which had been developed by Brown over a number of years and represents a major methodological improvement over previous approaches . |
| 13 | There is no virtue in several injections of insulin if the patient is well controlled on a single injection each day , but this state of affairs is unlikely to be the case in a patient who has had diabetes for a number of years and has little residual β-cell function . |
| 14 | The local authority now appeals from the making of those prohibitive steps orders on a number of grounds and seeks an order from this court by allowing the appeal and granting an interim care order under which the local authority would intend to keep the mother and children together and have them placed , as indeed they are now , at a mother and baby home . |
| 15 | Fashanu has carried the injury for a number of weeks and has had to endure two hours of daily stretching on a rack to ease the pain . |