Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never married , though he is understood to have received a number of proposals . |
| 2 | Alcester appears to have contained a number of buildings of quality , both inside and outside the fortifications . |
| 3 | ( Marco Polo is known to have carried a number of goldfish with him in case his lodestone ever broke down . |
| 4 | ( i ) Reselection is every five years for a further five year period : ( a ) If panel members are with the same firm they would be expected to supply details of relevant experience over the previous five years , and to have attended a number of updating courses , accumulating at least 20 continuing education points ( or hours ) from courses related to personal injury work . |
| 5 | ( i ) Reselection is every five years for a further five-year period : ( a ) If panel members are with the same firm they would be expected to demonstrate at least the same level of competence covering their experience , skills and knowledge as when they initially joined the panel , and to have attended a number of updating courses , accumulating at least 20 continuing education points ( or hours ) from courses related to medical negligence work . |
| 6 | A parallel audit of the company 's technical record , carried out internally , is believed to have revealed a number of shortcomings , focusing on the low level of use of recycled materials in computer manufacture . |
| 7 | In the meantime IBM is already said to have sold a number of Sparc-based models , and may have its own version ready by year-end . |
| 8 | The research on owls seems to have convinced a number of oil palm companies . |
| 9 | Both people entering unemployment as a result of losing a temporary job and people taking temporary jobs as a way out of unemployment seemed more likely to have taken a number of jobs , to have experienced a number of spells of unemployment , to have had less time in work and more time in unemployment than people becoming unemployed for other reasons , or managing to obtain a permanent job on leaving unemployment . |
| 10 | Fairley is especially concerned with the difference between " literal " readers , who do not go beyond the surface meaning of the text , and " figurative " readers , who seem to have internalised a number of conventions of reading which enable them to reach less obvious and more satisfactory interpretative results . |
| 11 | A group needs time for the processes to develop to turn a number of individuals into a group , no matter how well they know each other . |
| 12 | The DTI was found not to have heeded a number of warnings from authoritative sources about the dubious status of the Clowes em pire : witness the Bank of England , the Stock Exchange and the regula tory bodies . |
| 13 | Both people entering unemployment as a result of losing a temporary job and people taking temporary jobs as a way out of unemployment seemed more likely to have taken a number of jobs , to have experienced a number of spells of unemployment , to have had less time in work and more time in unemployment than people becoming unemployed for other reasons , or managing to obtain a permanent job on leaving unemployment . |
| 14 | The team clearly adopted a far too low key approach , with insufficient trawling for support among backbenchers which was reported to have offended a number who felt that their support was being taken for granted . |
| 15 | According to Ibn Hajar , Molla Fenari seems to have ignored a number of invitations to audiences with the sultan , but was finally present at an audience to celebrate the Prophet 's birthday , held , according to al-Makrizi , on Friday 7 Rabi " I. Molla Fenari , who was seated below the shaykh of the Mu'ayyadiyya , Ibn al-Dayri , took no part in the learned debate which occurred at that audience but was later present at a private audience with the sultan , when the two conversed . |
| 16 | Although not a Marxist , Schumpeter 's analysis of the ability of capitalism to survive had a number of common characteristics shared by the Marxists . |