Example sentences of "be a number of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rip there 're a number of problems with feature analysis and you can read books on them . |
| 2 | In the past there have been a number of problems with spin recoveries with light aircraft . |
| 3 | However , there had been a number of complaints from parents about the increasingly firm discipline in the school . |
| 4 | In the past , there have been a number of stories about illegal use of police computer information . |
| 5 | There have been a number of attempts at detailed classification , some very involved and certainly not avoiding a great deal of overlapping of the categories . |
| 6 | There have been a number of attempts by central government to intervene in the region to stem the loss of population , dating from the 1886 Crofters Act ( Turnock 1969 ) . |
| 7 | There have been a number of trends in the sources of company finance since 1970 : |
| 8 | There have been a number of studies on isolated words which explore the trade-off between discriminability of lexical items , and the amount of phonemic information used in their representation . |
| 9 | During the post war period there have been a number of studies of the transition from school to work . |
| 10 | There have been a number of studies of poverty in the UK that have been made over the past twenty-five years that have consistently indicated that a substantial minority of people may experience serious relative deprivation . |
| 11 | There have been a number of studies of the development of estates attached to monasteries which persisted through to the sixteenth century . |
| 12 | There have been a number of studies into the importance of investment as a generator of growth , though the results have not been conclusive . |
| 13 | During the week there had been a number of calls to the flat . |
| 14 | There have been a number of analyses of this nature put forward . |
| 15 | In the United States there have been a number of challenges to the Presidential power to conclude international agreements that allegedly interfere with constitutionally guaranteed rights . |
| 16 | But there 've been a number of changes over the years , certainly prior to nineteen seventy four that would be the case , water boards supplying water , local councils treating treating the sewage , and the rivers authorities looking after the river pollution aspects . |
| 17 | Additionally , over the years , there have been a number of changes with regard to the Business Expansion Scheme ( BES ) . |
| 18 | There have been a number of changes of mind since May 1991 on the part not only of the local authority . |
| 19 | Although these functions have remained essentially unchanged since the early 1970s , there have been a number of changes in the way they have been carried out , which are best examined by looking at the balance sheet of the discount market ( Table 17.8 ) : |
| 20 | She had lived in the flat for about six months and , according to neighbours , there had been a number of disturbances to which police had been called . |
| 21 | There have been a number of burglaries at the Springtown and Pennyburn industrial estates . |
| 22 | There have been a number of evaluations of the Task Force ( Parkinson and Duffy , 1984 ; Morison , 1987 ) . |
| 23 | Recently there have been a number of mergers between these companies which have increased this financial pressure . |
| 24 | Best practice is always a moving target , and in the six years since the directive was issued there have been a number of developments in domestic and international financial reporting that needed to be reflected by credit institutions . |
| 25 | Earlier in March there had been a number of developments in the on-going extradition dispute . |
| 26 | There have been a number of discussions about the implementation of the RENAVAL programme between Scottish Office officials , representatives of the local partnerships , which include district councils , and officials of the European Commission . |
| 27 | Already there have been a number of reports of developments of this kind . |
| 28 | I know there have been a number of accidents in that area but I would hope with all these other traffic calming measures we could have kept that speed up to forty miles an hour . |
| 29 | By this period he was seriously addicted to the tranquillizer , nembutal , and there seem to have been a number of objects to which he attached his fears — lifts and large animals among them . |
| 30 | I am sorry to say this , but there would appear to have been a number of houses in recent times , some of the highest pedigree , which have tended to take a competitive attitude towards each other and have not been above ‘ showing off ’ to guests a butler 's mastery of such trivial accomplishments . |