Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun pl] [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Engine failures cost Mario a number of races that he was leading and at Silverstone he had an unpleasant run-in with Hunt , putting Hunt off the track , which caused a lot of bad blood in the hugely provincial and chauvinistic British press , which backs a Brit no matter what . |
| 2 | As usual , the Minister makes a lot of statements but gives no real facts , It would be useful if he followed the Prime Minister 's example and supported the concept of targets for the number of women that he expects to see in grades 1 to 5 of the civil service in one , two and five years ' time . |
| 3 | Most patients reacted to injections of a number of substances and he made them up custom made ‘ vaccines ’ of supposed antidotes . |
| 4 | A male benefits from having a number of females because he fathers all their chicks . |
| 5 | The Orkney Christian Fellowship was set up in the mid-1980s by a former Church of Scotland Minister , Alan Cowieson , who had caused division amongst a number of families while he was still Minister of the Evie , Rendall and Firth Parish . |
| 6 | Regis said : ‘ I do n't blame Linford one little bit — appearing in the number of rounds that he has would have taxed the strength of a superman . |
| 7 | In fact , he was telling me only the other week , about the the number of criminals that he knows , they 're serving their they 're serving sentences , and they 're only one thing they 're longing and hoping for , it is get out , so they can knock another old lady down , |
| 8 | ‘ Or did he want a couple with the same number of children as he had ? |
| 9 | At the beginning of his reign , James issued a number of assurances that he would " preserve this Government , both in Church and State , as it is now by Law established " . |
| 10 | Each subscriber to the memorandum of a limited company with a share capital is required to take at least one share and against the name of each must be shown the number of shares that he takes . |
| 11 | Mr. Gardiner argued that Walton J. erred in a number of respects although he may have reached the right answer by the wrong route . |
| 12 | Boswell had by now made it plain over a number of years that he wished to write Johnson 's Life . |
| 13 | For a number of years after he ascended the throne he remained highly deferential to gentry concerns . |