Example sentences of "[vb -s] a number of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This term covers a number of causes , ranging from acute infectious illness , mental illness , organic brain failure , or a combination of these ( Marshall , 1988 ; Gearing et al . , |
| 2 | It is an insurance contract which covers a number of items against mechanical failure . |
| 3 | The IASC has also issued an exposure draft of a proposed statement , Retirement Benefit Costs , which incorporates a number of changes agreed in the July 1990 Statement of Intent on the comparability of financial statements . |
| 4 | It incorporates a number of points which are critical to the analysis of the processes of political communication : |
| 5 | Grishman ( 1986 ) specifies a number of problems in reversing this procedure to use transformational grammars for the a recognition procedure : |
| 6 | This instruction specifies a number of words to be moved n , a source , and a destination address . |
| 7 | The book edited by Davies and Runcom ( 1980 ) contains a number of papers on the various suggested mechanisms . |
| 8 | The statutory definition of " sale " encapsulated in s2 of SGA 1979 contains a number of ingredients which distinguish sale from other transactions . |
| 9 | The text of the 1905 Convention is much fuller when compared with the terse formulation of its predecessor , and it contains a number of changes of principle . |
| 10 | A less formal supplement , Sing Alleluia , followed in 1988 and contains a number of psalm settings . |
| 11 | English law contains a number of offences which penalize the driving of a car on a road in a manner which may cause harm . |
| 12 | ( 1 ) The following passage , which is the closing section of an essay on the central issues raised by the play Hamlet , contains a number of spelling , punctuation and grammatical errors . |
| 13 | The LOB tagset contains a number of tags for closed class words ( e.g. personal pronouns , conjugations of to be and to have ) . |
| 14 | The chapter also contains a number of illustrations drawn from documents of all kinds and ages relevant to the study of local history . |
| 15 | It contains a number of processor storage registers , among them the accumulator , the program counter , and one or more index registers . |
| 16 | Crisp , Clear Writing in One Hour is of little use to me I fear , but Guide to Wordplay and Word Games I have kept , as it contains a number of gems . |
| 17 | This clause contains a number of matters of principal importance . |
| 18 | The report , Proposals for statutory water objectives , contains a number of proposals which include |
| 19 | If a book contains a number of chapters or sections , which may even have been written by different authors , of what value to us is the global population mean based on the average over all chapters ? |
| 20 | For example , this book contains a number of chapters : Studying , Passing Examinations , Speaking in Public and others . |
| 21 | The theory of arbitrage pricing contains a number of predictions about market behaviour . |
| 22 | It contains a number of impurities the sum of which are known as water hardness salts . |
| 23 | This disk contains a number of utilities for turning text into self displaying text files . |
| 24 | This disk contains a number of utilities which require decompression to the hard disk using StuffIt which is provided . |
| 25 | The lack of security of employment makes flexible working a kind of half-way house , and this half-way house contains a number of workers struggling to keep themselves from dropping into the abyss of the underclass . |
| 26 | Each week , my mail contains a number of theories that people have sent me . |
| 27 | Not only does it constitute the object of its own criticism , it also contains a number of theories of this criticism , and in a recursive move that can truly be termed deconstructive , it presents criticism of these theories and it narrativizes this criticism . |
| 28 | The Offences against the Person Act 1861 contains a number of crimes concerned with the administration of noxious or toxic substances . |
| 29 | Issued by Rich Software and distributed by Bores Signal Processing it contains a number of library functions which allow the DSP32(C) to access the bios of the hose PC . |
| 30 | The i.c. contains a number of amplifiers whose non-inverting ( + ) inputs are controlled from a resistor or potential divider chain , see Fig. 2 . |