Example sentences of "a number of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although essentially separate and independent , they share a number of resources including the central criminal record department , the police national computer and the national reporting centre . |
| 2 | When dealing with the violent and destructive there seem to be a number of rules to be followed : |
| 3 | The process of normalisation is the application of a number of rules to the relational model which will simplify the relations . |
| 4 | The point is of some importance since a number of rules of procedure are growing to be applicable to Cabinet Committees and we ought to know where there is a real , useful distinction or whether it is merely the pragmatical difference that some are serviced by the Cabinet Office and some are not . |
| 5 | There are a number of rules for calculating oxidation numbers . |
| 6 | Sheila Payne suggests a number of reasons for this : the side effects of the drugs become more distressing ; patients are aware that they will have to go through further courses of similar treatment and feel gloomy at the prospect ; and they receive less support from health professionals than at the start . |
| 7 | There are a number of reasons for these differences although not all can be fully explained . |
| 8 | There are a number of reasons for this . |
| 9 | There are a number of reasons for this which could take all day to expound , but the main reason and the one I shall elaborate is that industrialised agriculture nearly always consumes more energy than it produces and is living off capital in the form of fossil fuels . |
| 10 | There may be a number of reasons for this . |
| 11 | There may be a number of reasons for keeping a personal diary . |
| 12 | There are a number of reasons for this : |
| 13 | There are a number of reasons for incontinence , and these come under two broad headings , physical and environmental . |
| 14 | There are a number of reasons for breaking the existing cycle , and replacing it with a system in which people would work for so many hours a month , not necessarily as many as at present . |
| 15 | There are a number of reasons for this failure . |
| 16 | There are a number of reasons for this advice . |
| 17 | They suggest a number of reasons for this . |
| 18 | There are a number of reasons for this and Malina is aware of how such phenomena as poverty , crowded home conditions and poor diet can affect physical performances . |
| 19 | There may be a number of reasons for this , but a very likely one relates to the whole question of our treatment of people within the community who are different . |
| 20 | There were a number of reasons for this subtle change . |
| 21 | There are a number of reasons for this optimism . |
| 22 | It is possible to suggest a number of reasons for this . |
| 23 | There were a number of reasons for this , some of which have been uncovered earlier in the book : |
| 24 | There are a number of reasons for tutors ' apparent retreat to the classroom , among which may be increasing administrative demands on their time and/or lack of opportunities for recent clinical experience . |
| 25 | That 's a very good question , there 's a number of reasons for it happening , erm it might be that the groove , the , the socket bit is very shallow , like a shallow tea cup and the hip , the leg bone does n't stay in it properly , does that make sense to you ? |
| 26 | There are a number of reasons for this , not the least of which is that the statement is protected by professional privilege . ’ |
| 27 | There are a number of reasons for thinking that such information transmission may be easier to manage if it occurs within firms than if it is subject to market transactions , and this means that there is a case for thinking that R&D activities ( particularly the D ) may have to be part of a vertically related structure that extends back into important input markets , and forward into downstream consumer markets ( see Teece , 1986 , Geroski , 1992 , and Jorde and Teece , 1990 , who apply these arguments to the antitrust treatment of co-operative R&D ventures ) . |
| 28 | There are a number of reasons for expecting the prices of index futures to adjust faster than the spot price , i.e. the market index . |
| 29 | There were a number of reasons for this . |
| 30 | There are a number of reasons for this . |