Example sentences of "[verb] to the number of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Lords , the , the point made by the Noble Lord is that it is an important one erm it is important that teachers do feel comfortable with this subject and to that end the erm grant for education support and training is making money available and religious education has been added to the number of subjects for which it can be made available to help with er improving specialisms in schools , but also pr improving co-ordination for religious education in schools . |
| 2 | Under this type of system , each frame of video picture is ‘ labelled ’ with its own reference number relating to the number of hours , minutes , seconds and frames which have elapsed since the beginning of the recording . |
| 3 | To qualify for the award , the companies submit their previous year 's accident rate , which is based on a formula relating to the number of days lost through injuries and accidents at work to the total number of employees . |
| 4 | A BLIND eye is being turned to the number of children who are working illegally or are seriously underpaid , according to a report which is published today . |
| 5 | In other words , careful grouping procedures must be applied to the number of lines and to the curves . |
| 6 | The number of visits was strongly related to the number of visitors : of those with less than five visitors , a quarter had a hundred or more visits , but this proportion was three-quarters for those with five or more visitors . |
| 7 | Bulb-life is also related to the number of times that they are switched on and off . |
| 8 | Spatial frequency is less intuitively obvious but is related to the number of times the display cycles from light to dark to light again as you go a fixed distance in a single direction across the display . |
| 9 | The team secretary , Paul Williams , said : ‘ We have had phenomenal numbers on the hills this winter and obviously the number up there is related to the number of accidents . ’ |
| 10 | If groups of records are to be stored in buckets , it will be related to the number of buckets required . |
| 11 | The sophistication of a thesaurus and the specificity of its index terms are usually related to the number of documents to be covered by the indexing system for which the indexing language is being planned . |
| 12 | With the company having invested heavily in plant-specific training for a particular worker , and output from the plant not being directly related to the number of workers in the plant , firms operating these technologies will be reluctant to hire and fire such highly trained workers in line with fluctuations in product demand . |
| 13 | Cigarette smoking is associated with a decrease in particular cells — Langerhans ' cells — which form an important part of the body 's immune system , the cell count being related to the number of cigarettes smoked daily [ 8 ] . |
| 14 | Cigarette smoking is associated with a decrease in particular cells — Langerhans ' cells — which form an important part of the body 's immune system , the cell count being related to the number of cigarettes smoked daily [ 5 ] . |
| 15 | It was planned that from April 1993 the colleges would receive a basic annual budget plus an amount related to the number of pupils enroled . |
| 16 | An inadequate list may include reduction in infant and child mortality better employment prospects for educated children making investment in education worthwhile and therefore a cost related to the number of children ; women 's status in the household and extent of emancipation in making decisions ; education of parents and enrolment rates in education for children , and women 's participation in the formal labour force ( where pregnancy implies unavoidable loss of earnings ) . |
| 17 | Ideally the calculations for increased prices should be broken down into different categories of material and related to the number of volumes purchased by the library in each of these categories . |
| 18 | Other changes related to the number of trees due to be felled at Redworth Woods . |
| 19 | With other constants which define array sizes , such as maxExp , minExp and the various constants related to the number of rows and columns in the picture it is possible that an increase will lead to a memory overflow or long waits for some actions to terminate . |
| 20 | The estimated income from the new product is , again to a first approximation , linearly related to the number of units invoiced . |
| 21 | ( b ) The weight gain of the birds per day is related to the number of flowers on its territory ( territories change size between days ) . |
| 22 | For example , Everett ( 1978 ) used multiple regression analysis to analyse 2,816 questionnaires concerning people 's wildlife preferences , and found that these were positively related to the number of colours and brightness of different species . |
| 23 | In 1989 it was planned that doctors would have to work to new contracts , under which their pay would be more clearly related to the number of patients . |
| 24 | ( d ) The surveyor makes stage payments based on approximate quantities or related to the number of men employed , and accurately measures and values the work either on completion of relevant sections of the work or at regular monthly intervals . |
| 25 | The most important of the new parameters is the so-called ‘ structural effect ’ which is related to the number of degrees of freedom ‘ 3 c ’ which a molecule possesses , divided by the number of external contacts q . |
| 26 | Typical lengths are between 100 and 200 metres whilst widths vary quite widely according to the number of racks and cranes in the system . |
| 27 | Now Hewlett-Packard Co is following Digital Equipment Corp in — as an option — charging for all HP 3000 and HP 9000 software according to the number of users on the machine , regardless of the processor size , the idea being that customers get to pay for what they actually use . |
| 28 | For HP 3000s , this software is priced per system , according to the number of users licensed for the HP MPE/iX operating system . |
| 29 | Support to the numerous types of group varies according to the number of members , their objectives and location ( there are supplements in the LFA ) . |
| 30 | These were analysed and a count was made of each word according to the number of times the word occurred in the conversation of the speaker and how many times in the total corpus ; also an account was made of the varies words related to the profession or social class of the speaker . |