Example sentences of "[verb] a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that , as Tracey and Morrison point out , her stance on sin would also involve condemning a number of heterosexual practices — her position was not simply something that was specifically ‘ anti-homosexual ’ . |
| 2 | Once we try to lift the imagination away from the idea of God as a person ( another unfortunate implication of the old man on a cloud motif ) into another form of personality , we encounter a number of interesting arguments . |
| 3 | Teaching my granny to suck eggs , I am sure , but did you see the last Scottish Business Insider which profiled a number of women ? |
| 4 | In effect the strategy of " privatising from within " was pushed even further , by giving additional powers and freedoms to managers , introducing a quasi-market , and tackling a number of other organisational rigidities . |
| 5 | Fully-organised rabbit shoots involve a number of people . |
| 6 | Write unc Then unc as may be checked by evaluating unc It is to be noted that , although these formulae involve a number of multiplications , only two reciprocations , B-1 ( of order m ) and unc ( of order n — m ) are involved . |
| 7 | The events of the novel involve a number of key characters who are related to one another in a variety of ways . |
| 8 | relationships between agencies will in practice involve a number of different issues , and the symmetry that it is possible to draw in an abstract model will not be the same for each issue . |
| 9 | Later research seems to show that Malinowski mis-understood a number of key features of the system he described , but it is certainly the case that the participants in the Kula conceive of it as a circulating system of exchange . |
| 10 | As with the 2D the manufacturer has designed a number of fittings for it . |
| 11 | In the meantime he had designed a number of small Episcopal churches . |
| 12 | England had lost fewer players than most countries to World Series Cricket and had won a number of rubbers as a result but , when the armistice was signed , England 's limitations were soon exposed . |
| 13 | AXA has recently won a number of awards for its unit trust performance . |
| 14 | They have organized a powerful and disciplined committee which has won a number of major concessions from the prison authorities and which , with the help of the Committee of Mothers and other human rights organizations , has kept the existence of political prisoners in the public eye , to the discomfort of the government . |
| 15 | Northern Ireland Office Civil servants have approached a number of community and church groups to act as go-betweens with loyalist paramilitaries . |
| 16 | ‘ Do you like rhubarb ? ’ asked Mrs Cartwright , depositing a number of baking tins in the sink . |
| 17 | He worked very hard , even in the holidays : he threw himself into all the activities of the school and contributed a number of well-received papers to conferences on education . |
| 18 | He also contributed a number of papers to the Institute 's Transactions and to Loudon 's Architectural Magazine . |
| 19 | He was an original member of the Philobiblon Society , founded in 1853 by his friend Richard Monckton Milnes ( later first Baron Houghton , q.v. ) , and for whose publications , the Miscellanies , he contributed a number of articles about original documents connected with Venetian painters of the sixteenth century . |
| 20 | During the next voyage of the Beagle , Bynoe contributed a number of new finds for the ornithologist 's work on the Birds of Australia . |
| 21 | The expansion of Brighton provided a number of new churches but they depended for the clergy 's livelihood on rented pews and the poor were virtually excluded . |
| 22 | The permanent military garrisons in Scotland provided a number of minor posts which featured prominently in burgh politics , particularly in Stirling , where the Christie family influence in council over an extended period ensured that much of the small change of military patronage came their way . |
| 23 | ‘ In the future , we hope to try a number of relatively simple manoeuvres to see if we can slow that destructive process to prevent diabetes , ’ says Eisenbarth . |
| 24 | The plan aimed to upgrade existing industries and to attract a number of new ones , such as financial services . |
| 25 | Together with Scottish Innovation , which has co-ordinated the attendance of Scottish companies at the previous seven events , they aim to attract a number of Scottish companies interested in forging links with European partners at Lille . |
| 26 | British-born Rachel , who now lives in LA , has decorated her California home in English country style ( but more cottage than grand manor ) , at the same time as launching a number of furniture stores which reflect her personal taste . |
| 27 | The building regulations of the Department of the Environment suggest a number of ways of doing this . |
| 28 | They suggest a number of reasons for this . |
| 29 | Lederer & Mendelow ( 1989 ) suggest a number of guide-lines which should be considered when planning : |
| 30 | Johnes and Taylor provide estimates of non-completion rates for the 1979 and 1980 entry cohorts into each university and suggest a number of reasons which may have contributed to these inter-university differences . |