Example sentences of "a number of [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have already mentioned Equity , and for a number of reasons the entire question of how to enter the actors ' union needs discussion at this point . |
| 2 | Mr Collin added : ‘ Obviously , if people have a number of creditors the poll tax could be a casualty . |
| 3 | In a number of instances the government has ‘ fixed the odds ’ in favour of private provision . |
| 4 | In a number of instances the Romans took over a Greek theatre ( for example at Taormina ) and adapted it to their requirements . |
| 5 | Further , in a number of cases the variant was transmitted accurately in its new form to younger recruits so that a recognizably coherent group of like singers developed . ’ |
| 6 | Though the onus of proving entitlement to the benefit claimed is normally on the claimant , in a number of cases the burden of proof is placed on the adjudication officer to satisfy the tribunal on the balance of probabilities of particular facts . |
| 7 | In a number of cases the courts have , as said , simply treated natural justice and fairness as synonymous ; the former is regarded as the latter writ large , the content of which will vary in different areas . |
| 8 | In a number of cases the jurisdictional facts will be expressed in terms of a subjective open textured discretion : the if X element will be ‘ if the Minister thinks fit , necessary , etc. , he may do … . ’ |
| 9 | However , in a number of cases the courts began to indicate that some control over subjective discretion might be attained . |
| 10 | Nevertheless the matter is not entirely theoretical , for in a number of cases the courts have been faced with the need to analyse the juridical nature of a shareholder 's interest in order to determine the principles on which it should be valued . |
| 11 | However , in a number of cases the variables on the right-hand side of equation ( 6.5 ) account for rather a small proportion of the variance of the left-hand side variable , suggesting that some important influences on have been omitted from the estimating equation . |
| 12 | In a number of cases the Revenue did seek to argue that the beneficial user was a taxable benefit for the purposes of Case I and Case II ( and indeed Schedule E before the specific legislation was introduced ) . |
| 13 | However , in a number of cases the courts have required special notice to be given to individual terms . |
| 14 | You 're summoned for a number of offences the first of which is that on the twenty first of June nineteen eighty eight you , on the public road namely Acrington Road Worley , used a mechanically propelled vehicle when there was no excise licence in force . |
| 15 | According to a number of reports the plan 's main objective was to restore the credibility of the PLO in the West in the aftermath of the Gulf war . |
| 16 | Vigorously opposed by a number of clubs the IRFU has stood firm but ironically the flow of foreigners has continued , albeit in a different direction . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , for a number of writers the essential point is not so much that these ideas on unemployment and social welfare were new , as that a broad political consensus developed around them which achieved its apotheosis in the triumph of Keynesianism in 1947 [ Booth , 1983 ; 1984 ] . |
| 18 | In a number of provisions the 1977 Protocols seek to restate the principles of the laws of war so as to make as clear as possible the unacceptability of ‘ total war ’ . |
| 19 | It contains a number of impurities the sum of which are known as water hardness salts . |
| 20 | But although long-nets have a number of uses the nets are exactly the same for each purpose . |
| 21 | It seems clear that in a number of places the word for professional soldier has been misunderstood as meaning " thousand " . |
| 22 | my Lord we have said in a number of places the claims are erm unlawful and we refer to the fact that the claims come out of the central fund bi-law |
| 23 | ( 2 ) The authorities show that in a number of situations the ex turpi causa defence will prima facie succeed . |
| 24 | In a number of situations the costs of the products will be a basis for setting prices , e.g. where the market price does not predominate over the pricing decision , as in the case of a monopoly or an oligopoly . |
| 25 | With a number of solids the interatomic forces are stronger and stiffer than they are in common liquids and so the surface energies are higher , often ten or twenty times the values for ordinary liquids . |
| 26 | Over a number of sessions the proportion of subjects showing a right-ear preference for verbal stimuli tends to increase due to the greater probability of change among subjects showing an initial left ear advantage ( Blumstein , Goodglass and Tartter , 1975 ; Shankweiler and Studdert-Kennedy , 1975 ) . |
| 27 | The danger of harming an interest to help an individual friend demanded the greatest caution in placing ministers in rural parishes , and after a number of mistakes the Duke of Montrose became very reluctant to present any candidate without a careful sounding of opinion together with an evaluation of the merits of the candidate himself . |
| 28 | On a number of occasions the soldiers of the garrison seized wool supplies in the town when their wages were in arrears ; in 1407 they sold the wool and in 1421 the Staplers had to pay £4,000 to recover it . |
| 29 | So , the other things that had erm we 've endeavoured to incorporate is to try and not divide the estate , one of the one of the aims of the master plan has been to seen to integrate bungalows and any new housing together and in a number of respects the demolition of the terraced blocks and the er er , putting back of more conventional two storey housing has allowed us to do this by rather than having a access road running the whole length of the estate and similarly the that are running past the length of the estate away from the houses we 've we 've put the houses where the road is and the road where the house , where the terraced blocks were , erm to form more of a conventional street scape so that people can look out on their cars and that we , you actually got the new houses facing the existing ones . |
| 30 | For a number of years the Broken Axe tribe wandered west and north , conquering the Orc and Goblin tribes of the southern Worlds Edge Mountains and the Badlands . |