Example sentences of "a number of [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although essentially separate and independent , they share a number of resources including the central criminal record department , the police national computer and the national reporting centre . |
| 2 | The process of normalisation is the application of a number of rules to the relational model which will simplify the relations . |
| 3 | There can be a number of reasons for a slow response . |
| 4 | There were a number of reasons for the lack of success . |
| 5 | 7.4 There are a number of reasons for the decision to use Personal Interviews as an Instrument of Assessment in PSD : |
| 6 | It has acquired this position for a number of reasons including the fact that historically it was essentially the creation of the people of Wales themselves and has made a major contribution to the educational needs of the nation . |
| 7 | There are a number of products on the market intended fro damp-proofing the interior of damp walls . |
| 8 | Evidently , there are a number of limitations to the collocation analysis technique . |
| 9 | In its Memorandum , circulated at the start of the revision process , the United States Government argued that ‘ Letters rogatory are a useful but scarcely perfect technique for securing evidence from persons abroad ’ and listed a number of limitations of the technique , limitations which were especially important where the two legal systems involved differed in their practice . |
| 10 | There have been a number of evaluations of the Task Force ( Parkinson and Duffy , 1984 ; Morison , 1987 ) . |
| 11 | During the week there had been a number of calls to the flat . |
| 12 | My right hon. Friend the Chancellor has had a number of discussions with the Council of Mortgage Lenders and others , and he will be announcing a package of measures later this afternoon . |
| 13 | While a number of discussions of the roots of urban unrest in the United States have noted the salience of political marginality in determining participation in violent protests ( Skolnick , 1969 ; Fogelson , 1971 ; Edelman , 1971 ; Knopf , 1975 ) , this issue has received relatively little attention in Britain . |
| 14 | I personally do believe that it would have been much better if ministers had had a number of discussions about the Falkland Islands in the period preceding the invasion of the Falklands by the Argentinians . |
| 15 | There have been a number of discussions about the implementation of the RENAVAL programme between Scottish Office officials , representatives of the local partnerships , which include district councils , and officials of the European Commission . |
| 16 | There were a number of preconditions for the advent of mass owner occupation , which first characterized the inter-war years ( Ball , 1983 ) . |
| 17 | Situated on the edge of the attractive village of Tiffield , Ark Farm has evolved from a number of farms over the last 30 years . |
| 18 | These included meetings with Saadi Mahdi Saleh ( President of the Iraqi Parliament ) ; Taha Yasseen Ramadan ( Vice Prime Minister of Iraq ) ; Latif Nasseef Gassem ( Minister of Information ) ; Ghanem Aziz ( Vice President of the Parliament ) ; a number of deputies in the parliament , both men and women ; Nawal El Ghazaui ( Vice Chairwoman of the Iraqi Women 's Federation ) ; Haifa Abdel Rahman ; Ilham El Zoubedi ; Azza Kobba and other women in the Federation . |
| 19 | Currently available speech recognition systems typically impose a number of constraints on the user , such as a limited vocabulary ( possibly only a few hundred words ) , speaker dependence ( new users require individual training ) and the use of disconnected speech ( rather than the more natural continuous speech ) . |
| 20 | That makes use in a number of sections of the concept of administrative receiver . |
| 21 | This ‘ Type 996 ’ will replace the 1950s-vintage Type 992 , which suffered from a number of deficiencies in the Falklands . |
| 22 | The hon. Gentleman might be referring to the fact that on receipt of the Southern board 's investment appraisal for the refurbishment of Banbridge hospital it became clear that there were a number of deficiencies in the document , as certain issues had not been properly addressed . |
| 23 | An internal government report recently pointed out a number of deficiencies in the existing safety procedures . |
| 24 | Such promotions are usually linked with the necessity to collect labels or cut out tokens , etc. , from a number of purchases of the same , or same range of , products . |
| 25 | The Bibliography contains references to a number of texts on the subject . |
| 26 | There are a number of texts on the nature of volcanic activity and the development of volcanic landforms . |
| 27 | There are a number of problems with the above analysis , based , as it is , on Freud 's assumption that there is a basic element of latent mutual hostility existing between people . |
| 28 | There are a number of problems with the system however . |
| 29 | There are a number of problems with the PPP theory . |
| 30 | The secretive nature of crime raises a number of problems for the study of crime . |