Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] [prep] a number " in BNC.

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1 Generic substitution could be achieved in a number of ways .
2 This could be achieved in a number of ways , for example by establishing a business centre or by nominating one person as head of business services , at the discretion of individual establishments .
3 This could be justified on a number of grounds .
4 ‘ But the same could be said for a number of less actively traded companies on the full list .
5 The second point is that the potential of visits to project schools could be realised in a number of ways .
6 The history requirements could be delivered in a number of ways , as the topics or prescribed elements within a unit of study could be introduced in any order and not all topics need be covered in the same depth .
7 Sleep could be divided into a number of different phases which recurred at regular intervals throughout the night .
8 He could be depicted in a number of animal forms including the hippopotamus and the crocodile .
9 That is , each event could be labeled by a number called " time " in a unique way , and all good clocks would agree on the time interval between two events .
10 These alternative phoneme labels could support a large number of word hypotheses , depending on the number and phonetic closeness of items in the lexicon , and these in turn could be combined into a number of different word strings , depending on the constraints of the grammar .
11 It was an attitude of mind which had existed long before the sixteenth century ; the great change was that an attitude which could be found in a number of separate societies was suddenly turned by the expansion of Europe into a force that altered the way that the whole world ran its affairs .
12 A SUPPLIER can supply many PRODUCTS ; and one PRODUCT could be supplied by a number of SUPPLIERS ( SUPPLIER supplies PRODUCT ; PRODUCT is supplied by SUPPLIER ) .
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