Example sentences of "number [prep] [adj] [noun pl] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a number of influential papers he has argued that people 's political alignments are closely connected to their relationships to the state . |
| 2 | Opinion polls show Labour back in the lead on course for a nine seat John Major unveils the Tories ’ 39 steps to education reform claiming they will achieve higher Roy Hattersley , on a visit to Darlington , pledged to give Durham 's Chief Constable the number of extra bobbies he Darlington Tory candidate Michael Fallon claimed a Newcastle-based regional assembly , as proposed by Labour , would harm the town . |
| 3 | Several years before inheriting he had been formulating his plans in which he brought together important features of a number of great buildings he had seen and admired . |
| 4 | Sonny has a number of different slides he uses for different occasions . |
| 5 | As an advocate of the STV has observed , if an MP is " forced by the system to spend his working hours worrying about the number of first-preference votes he will get at the next election , and many of his sleeping hours dreaming about them , he or she will work harder than ever for constituents ' " |
| 6 | After a number of juvenile jobs he began work in a local joiner 's shop and acquired the skills of a carpenter although he was never officially apprenticed . |
| 7 | He also built several handsome examples in masonry ; and , most important , at the Ouseburn and Willington Dene bridges ( 1836–9 , demolished ) on the Newcastle and North Shields Railway and in a number of subsequent examples he successfully employed a system of laminated timber arches , which , for a short time , was widely imitated in railway-bridge construction . |