Example sentences of "a number [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A function which converts a character string representing a number into numeric form . |
| 2 | This table reveals a number of striking features . |
| 3 | After end of the strike a number of striking teachers were not reinstated and many of these were said to have left the country to seek work in Botswana . |
| 4 | In a number of continental countries , Germany included , the limited company is a common form of organisation for an accounting firm . |
| 5 | That has now changed Eastern arts no longer support the gallery now one obvious reason for that is the gallery started so well because of the enthusiasm from a number of professional people who came along and gave their advice and much of their time and such a body of people has not been called upon for a number of years now and once again a request to discuss this with Mr was refused . |
| 6 | In addition to these three , there are a number of professional bodies concerned with maintaining standards of professional training , such as the English National Board for nursing , and the Royal College of Psychiatrists for doctors . |
| 7 | The comm-link details for reaching us are available in a number of professional directory data banks . |
| 8 | It was a fairly general branch , holding accounts for various businesses , and a number of professional firms — solicitors , architects and accountants . |
| 9 | We employ a number of professional producers and this time Peter — he 's a very experienced drama teacher — and he is working with Julian Elloway , who is a local musician . |
| 10 | The final chapter of this book , written by John Channon , comprises both a brief survey of the course of the Revolution and Civil War in Siberia , and , drawing on the work of a number of Soviet historians and also western experts such as Evan Mawdsley , Norman Pereira and Jon Smele , an analysis of the horrendously complex , bloody and confused antagonisms with which the entire territory was racked . |
| 11 | The reason for excluding the Schutzkorps from repatriation must have been that , although it included a number of Soviet citizens who had joined during the war , a large majority of its members had lived outside Russia since the Civil War and had become passport holders of other countries , mainly Yugoslavia . |
| 12 | The delegation met a number of Soviet officials and leaders , including President Gorbachev . |
| 13 | The atmosphere was not improved when in 1984 Iran outlawed the pro-Moscow Tudeh Party and expelled a number of Soviet diplomats . |
| 14 | SEEN RECENTLY at the old Riga Airport , which was closed some 15 years ago to commercial traffic and relegated to military helicopter use , were a number of Soviet aircraft , old and not so old . |
| 15 | A number of Soviet nuclear submarines were scuttled in the Baltic over the years . |
| 16 | If he or she does n't act for a number of successful bands , he or she is unlikely to have a thorough understanding of accounting in the music business . |
| 17 | They landed agents from submarines and carried out a number of successful demolition raids along the Italian coast . |
| 18 | Its closest competitors are not only other members of the Big Four , but a number of successful home-grown British firms . |
| 19 | The Mujahideen had lately mounted a number of successful attacks inside Iran ( though not , they insist , from their bases in Iraq ) . |
| 20 | Against the opposition of respectable male co-operators the women set up a number of successful shops of this kind . |
| 21 | Although there have been a number of successful experiments in providing advice to farmers at the ‘ grass roots ’ — most notably the Upland Management Scheme in the Lake District — farmers still remain suspicious of environmentalists however sympathetic they may be to environmentalism . |
| 22 | A number of successful prosecutions have been brought against car dealers who have had cars for sale on which the odometers ( mileometers ) showed mileages different from those which the car had actually travelled . |
| 23 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that , since it was established in 1988 , the Serious Fraud Office , under the direction of Barbara Mills , has done an outstandingly good job and has brought a number of successful prosecutions for fraud ? |
| 24 | A number of successful applications of expert systems in medicine , oil exploration and in computer engineering underline this trend . |
| 25 | We know that the job has sharpened some of our talents and even given us other , quite new ones ; we experience a number of pleasurable sensations at work — labouring successfully under pressure , completing the job on time , the anticipation of the moment when we can stop . |
| 26 | This latest development is another blow for Flashman , who has received a number of crushing setbacks recently . |
| 27 | There were a number of skilled adults at Hambury operating the machines . |
| 28 | To avoid the 1803 rates , employers hired a number of skilled men to do the most expensive work ( known in the trade as the " fat " ) and paid them by time or stab ( establishment ) rates . |
| 29 | Werner Reichert , of Egremont Road , Whitehaven , joined the Company in 1950 when a number of skilled German weavers were recruited and is now only one of two left . |
| 30 | As Klama has recently observed in a penetrating critique of the literature on ‘ aggression ’ , there is a close correspondence between certain popular conceptions of human nature in our society and a number of influential scientific theories to do with the ‘ biological basis of human behaviour ’ ( Klama 1988 : 52 ) . |