Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] a number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he raised his standard at Nottingham he was joined by a number of Members of Parliament who had previously criticised him but now felt that the Parliamentary cause was in the hands of extremists . |
| 2 | His main challenger , Justice Minister Claudio Martelli ( PSI former deputy secretary-general ) , was joined by a number of senior party colleagues including Rino Formica , the former Finance Minister , and 22 PSI deputies . |
| 3 | It was witnessed by a number of people , so I know it 's true . |
| 4 | It was formed by a number of volcanic eruptions , the last of which was around the 18th century BC , and its hot-headed volcanic formations warm the local waters to delicious bathing temperatures . |
| 5 | The British ambassador in Washington was consulted on a number of occasions by Kennedy , and sat in on top-level sessions of the US National Security Council . |
| 6 | Enthusiasm was sustained over a number of weeks , read out in instalments to the class and eventually produced as a book . |
| 7 | As described in Chapter 2 , the greater part of the funding in any year was given to a number of Major Project schools ( usually £6,000 to each of eight schools ) , and at the time of writing 36 schools have received such a grant and another five have been proposed for the current financial year . |
| 8 | Practical support , too , was given in a number of ways — for example , the drawing office helped produce Mujadid 's maps and charts , while Roger Tucker 's exploration team in LASMO North Sea helped out with data logs , a base map and technical guidance for a project he was preparing on the Inner Moray firth . |
| 9 | However , the government was criticized by a number of political parties and organizations . |
| 10 | The vote was criticized by a number of Arab states ; an official Syrian statement on Nov. 13 said that it was an " open defiance of the principles and objectives " of the Madrid conference . |
| 11 | Limited investigative mathematics with pupils was undertaken by a number of liaison group teachers assisted by advisory teachers . |
| 12 | I was referred to a number of other Acts in which the word ‘ maladministration ’ is used in that sense , namely the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 , Local Government Act 1974 , National Health Service Act 1977 and Social Security Act 1990 . |
| 13 | His arm was broken in a number of places . |
| 14 | He was courted by a number of them when he returned to South Africa this Christmas , his first visit home since he was exiled along with his parents as a youngster . |
| 15 | was even more true to form , with Bernard Cribbins cementing the debut he made in Carry On Jack , but with the addition of Eric Barker , Charles Hawtrey and Jim Dale ( who was to appear in a number of the series ) . |
| 16 | He also agreed to hand over to the US government $7,300,000 which was frozen in a number of Swiss bank accounts . |
| 17 | Brackley was surrounded by a number of smaller villages , such as Hinton with a population of approximately 175 [ Baker , 1 , 635 ] , the hamlet of Steane with only 15 [ Baker , 1 , 686 ] or , somewhat further , the village where Leapor was born , Marston St. Lawrence , where about 370 people lived [ Baker , 1 , 642 ] . |
| 18 | The nineteenth-century railway history of the United States was dominated by a number of themes which were dramatically reflected in the railway stations . |
| 19 | Before a youth was apprenticed to the Sechem he was committed to a number of years of study of the Yasa , memorising the codex in its entirety so that he was capable of relating his knowledge of the law to science . |
| 20 | It was attended by a number of Cabinet ministers — Chris Patten , Norman Lamont , William Waldegrave , Malcolm Rifkind , Tony Newton — and other ministers — including Richard Ryder , John Patten and Alan Clark ( a particularly vehement Thatcher loyalist ) — a group drawn , significantly , from both the wet and dry wings of the party . |
| 21 | To arrive at this viewpoint Miliband argued that society was stratified by a number of elites — social , economy ( including managers and not just owners ) , bureaucratic and political — each of which had its own basis of power . |
| 22 | The programme was evaluated in a number of different ways , in order to produce a triangulation effect and thereby obtain as full a picture as possible of the functioning of the courses . |
| 23 | Over a period of time she was seen by a number of psychotherapists and psychologists who adopted differing approaches to her varied problems . |
| 24 | The repayment of the advances was secured by a number of security documents . |
| 25 | In the UK , progress was made on a number of transport projects including the Heston and ‘ Birmingham Box ’ schemes with further contract successes seen for 1993 . |
| 26 | The attempt to construct such a right was built upon a number of different grounds , perhaps the most important being the analogy with the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution which protects people from unreasonable search and seizure , the analogy being drawn presumably because the Fourth Amendment is based upon English common law , particularly Entick v. Carrington , where it was held that as a general rule search warrants may only be issued under the authority of a statute . |
| 27 | The kind of service devised was shaped by a number of different beliefs about community care , about the services available , and about the needs of dementia sufferers . |
| 28 | The main value of ‘ Heshang ’ , I was told by a number of commentators , was that it did ‘ wake people up ’ and shake them out of their apathy . |
| 29 | The call for the profession to be better educated on the issue of undertakings was reiterated by a number of local law societies . |
| 30 | The aircraft , which had a removable photographic panel in the base , was used for a number of our photographic assignments and had travelled throughout the United Kingdom and France for the magazine . |