Example sentences of "a number of [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When dealing with the violent and destructive there seem to be a number of rules to be followed : |
| 2 | The process of normalisation is the application of a number of rules to the relational model which will simplify the relations . |
| 3 | Evidently , there are a number of limitations to the collocation analysis technique . |
| 4 | During the week there had been a number of calls to the flat . |
| 5 | However , he was a writer with a number of plays to his credit , none of them great successes but all worthy of note . |
| 6 | One submission to BACS can initiate a number of payments to beneficiaries who then receive value two working days later , the same day that the company account is debited . |
| 7 | This included a number of payments to men and women for various services rendered but who were not in every case employees as such . |
| 8 | Five years under Deng Xiaoping appears to have started the mighty machine rolling in the right direction again but , in energy terms there are a number of problems to be overcome which are mainly to do with lack of adequate capital investment and resources management . |
| 9 | There are a number of problems to be found in the attempts to explain the low level of female crime as being due to physical or mental maladjustment . |
| 10 | Although there are still a number of problems to be solved , in contrast to the difficulties of comparing data reported for different spatial units , these aspects of data integration are fairly well developed and understood . |
| 11 | There are a number of answers to these questions . |
| 12 | Now I had a number of answers to this . |
| 13 | A number of barriers to good communication also exist . |
| 14 | Councillor Ian MacDonald and former Councillor Spencer Rosie made a number of requests to officials for copies of the document . |
| 15 | My hon. Friend will know that at the end of November we made a number of requests to the Government of Libya . |
| 16 | There are , however , a number of disadvantages to cold cathode systems . |
| 17 | Now there 's a number of disadvantages to this traditional approach . |
| 18 | The strategy finally agreed consisted of a number of actions to be taken progressively , ie : |
| 19 | I thought that was a particularly er constructive day session , a lot of ideas came from it and I am sure that there will be a number of actions to be warranted from it . |
| 20 | Epstein had one of the most important collections of African and Oceanic sculpture ever assembled in this country and introduced a number of contemporaries to non-European art ; most recent scholarship puts the beginning of his collecting activity in 1912 when it is documented but Gardiner places it in 1904 , ( i.e. before Derain and Picasso ) when Epstein was a penniless student in Paris . |
| 21 | He exhibited a number of specimens to the Royal Society in 1664 , and two years later published an account of another successful experiment in preserving ‘ Birds taken out of the Egge ’ , so as to observe ‘ the Process of Nature in the Formation of a Chick ’ . |
| 22 | The statement suggests a number of reforms to US tort law , several of which were first put forward by Arthur Andersen managing partner Lawrence Weinbach in a heartfelt speech to the New York Financial Writers Association in May ( see ACCOUNTANCY , June , p 12 ) . |
| 23 | By bending the rules which restricted travel to a few miles around Moscow , he had managed to undertake a number of journeys to such places as Samarkand , wonderfully described in his book , Eastern Approaches . |
| 24 | The most important and spectacular case , however , came in London when , in September 1708 , A.A. Matveev , the Russian minister , was arrested on the complaint of a number of tradesmen to whom he owed money . |
| 25 | The health care issue is one of a number of complaints to the Home Office about the running of the Wolds — the first prison in Britain to be run privately by Group 4 Remand Services . |
| 26 | The Director-General made a number of visits to regions , branches , practices and local government offices , and spoke at meetings , conferences and dinners to members , clients and representatives of the construction industry and the public . |
| 27 | I am aware , from a number of visits to Scotland , of the fine museums and galleries in both Edinburgh and Glasgow . |
| 28 | This award , under the Franco-British ( ESRC/CNRS ) exchange scheme , funded a number of visits to France to carry out collaborative research with colleagues of the Institut National de la Sante et Recherche Medicale , France . |
| 29 | Consequently , early in 1985 we made a number of visits to schools in order to interview non-respondents and to request them to fill in the questionnaire orally . |
| 30 | Some interesting manufacturing articles coupled with a number of visits to blue chip companies helped considerably : we were not alone ! |