Example sentences of "[art] number of other [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 By the War Powers Act , the Hughes — Ryan Act , the Case Act and a number of other bills in the 1970s , Congress made strenuous efforts to reclaim ground lost to the president in the realm of foreign policy .
2 In addition to the methods of control used by the central bank , there are a number of other sources of changes in the money supply .
3 Clive Evers of the Alzheimer 's Disease Society points to a number of other reasons for the lack of registration and voting among residents .
4 The stylistic evidence of drawings and documented buildings , supported by patronage links and geographical proximity , enable a number of other houses to be attributed to him , including Barlborough Hall , Derbyshire ; Doddington Hall , Lincolnshire ; Worksop Manor Lodge , Nottinghamshire ; Fountains Hall , Yorkshire ; and Wootton Lodge , Staffordshire .
5 There were a number of other members of the family on the board .
6 The trouble was that Louise , like a number of other members of the garrison , was suffering from scurvy ; there had been several cases of partial blindness and of swollen heads , but the most common symptom , and the one which was troubling Louise , was the loosening of teeth .
7 You will find that there are a number of other problems in this question that test your knowledge and understanding of standard accounting practice in a group context .
8 This treaty was deliberately linked with a number of other areas of mutual co-operation : notably increased trade , joint programmes in space , exchanges in scientific information , and cultural relations .
9 A number of other areas of the curriculum — art and craft , PE , music , CDT , computers , dance and so on — were given comparatively little time , amounting to the same number of teacher-days between them as were spent on science alone .
10 For this he paid ten pence a year at Michaelmas and performed a number of other duties on the lord 's land and paid tithes to the church .
11 Three UK members of parliament from the opposition Labour Party had visited Iraq the previous month in one of a number of other attempts by prominent Westerners , generally acting in an unofficial capacity , to persuade Iraq to release foreign nationals .
12 The Institute now has its first two corporate members in China and has a number of other students in that country sitting its examinations .
13 There is , of course , a number of other questions to be asked .
14 Finally , the evaluation has thrown up a number of other questions to which we wish to draw attention .
15 There are a number of other circumstances in which your employer may argue , if it suits him , that you have not been dismissed .
16 Yet there are a number of other landforms in the formation of which the relative importance of past and present processes is difficult to assess .
17 There were , for example , two old wooden boxes containing torn up paper and many stamps from Penny Blacks to Edwardian ; also a number of other relics from his brother 's model-making activities . ’
18 This has been most clearly shown for lung tissue but smoking related adducts have also been described in a number of other tissues for which smoking has been implicated as a cancer risk factor .
19 Under the last Labour Government was not a subsidy of more than £1 million a day given to British Steel and to a number of other companies through regional development grant ?
20 Elections were held for a number of other posts on Sept. 23-24 .
21 The authority is seeking damages from building contractor Wiltshier Northern and a number of other defendants including Stockton engineering consultants Simpson , Coulson and Partners and a roofing firm , Broderick Structures .
22 There were also a number of other differences between the studies .
23 Now they are checking out a number of other countries for a spring 1993 visit .
24 It is very possible there were a number of other instances of this sort which I have now forgotten .
25 There have been a number of other articles in this magazine showing you how to move and change motherboards so I wo n't go into too much detail about how to do this .
26 The ‘ crossword ’ on page 6/584 weaves together voices from a number of other texts in a ‘ hysterical ’ imitation of male story-telling .
27 And they will outline on the course a a number of other things of course that they 'll blow you out for .
28 However , although that enumeration may appear exhaustive , the ingenuity of the legislative institutions is such that they have adopted a number of other Acts outside those categories such as , for example , action programmes , codes of conduct , resolutions .
29 I was referred to a number of other Acts in which the word ‘ maladministration ’ is used in that sense , namely the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 , Local Government Act 1974 , National Health Service Act 1977 and Social Security Act 1990 .
30 Negotiations are under way to meet a number of other requests from academic staff .
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