Example sentences of "number of [noun] [conj] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Archdeacon had said , ‘ Oh dear ’ a number of times and driven off , refusing Miss Tilley 's offer of a bite of hot-pot . |
| 2 | Police in the Wear Valley are looking for thieves who have struck in a number of gardens and stolen ornamental garden furniture . |
| 3 | It was a highly successful chevauchée : Lancaster relieved Pont Audemer , captured Verneuil , took a large number of prisoners and carried off much booty . |
| 4 | This " minimum standards " approach leads to a number of problems when applied to a complex and rapidly changing area of technology . |
| 5 | But surprising the people that you do n't realise , you know , it troubles the parents and as I say they took them to a number of specialists and given different things |
| 6 | This cultural context which affected attitudes towards the city and how it might be planned was built up from a number of sources and expressed in the literature of the day ( Timms and Kelley. 1985 ) . |
| 7 | Between them they reduced the number of officers and assigned specific duties to those that remained . |
| 8 | Each shot causes a variable number of hits as described below . |
| 9 | The thematic maps were computer generated , using information brought together from a number of databases and processed through a Geographic Information System with methods that were specially developed during the project . |
| 10 | However , tests showed that a faster schedule could be operated with a train of Gresley 's comfortable coaches seating double the number of passengers and hauled by one of his steam ‘ Pacific ’ type locomotives . |
| 11 | He specifically targeted criminal gangs , saying that since May police had successfully " destroyed " a number of gangs and dealt with 796,000 crimes . |
| 12 | Knit the same number of rows as knitted on the ribber , increasing stitch size by two dots on each row . |
| 13 | About three-quarters of pupils in the lowest third knew how many days there are in certain months , although a number of pupils when interviewed said they had not been taught by their parents or at school any way of remembering the number of days in the months . |
| 14 | Figure 2 shows the blood film of the patient with the highest number of pits when viewed under differential interference contrast microscopy . |
| 15 | I have visited Mexico on a number of occasions and seen both major cities and rural areas . |
| 16 | During his last year in Fontanellato Don Cattahianchi had been woken up in the night on a number of occasions and beaten by the secret police . |