Example sentences of "[art] number [prep] [noun] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean you could start by saying , ‘ Canborough has , has been well known for the number of grants it gives , you know , as , as the means of saying , ‘ Up to now we 've been the good people . ’ |
| 2 | The general rule is that the efficiency of a country 's intelligence operations is in inverse proportion to the number of agencies it operates . |
| 3 | The number of boxes it shifted also increased 59% to 40,000 , accounting for 80% of total group turnover . |
| 4 | It specialises in motor insurance and has doubled the number of policies it sells each year as well as moving into household insurance . |
| 5 | Many phonologists have claimed that one should prefer the analysis which is the most ‘ economical ’ in the number of phonemes it results in . |
| 6 | Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey were among the first to import them into England , and the painter Hans Holbein has since had a particular type of design named after him because of the number of times it featured in his portraits of Henry and the English Court , Similarly , the Flemish painter Hans Memlinc provides ample pictorial evidence of the passion for oriental rugs in the Netherlands and the Northern Europe . |
| 7 | When determining the frequency of a particular feature or category , we work out the number of times it occurs per X , where X is some standard measure . |
| 8 | The odds of an outcome are given by dividing the number of times the outcome occurred by the number of times it did not occur . |
| 9 | Many of you will be familiar with his correlation between the age of a hedge and the number of species it contains . |
| 10 | Its range , strength value and the number of wounds it causes reflect this . |
| 11 | They have reported for example that fear of strangers may peak anywhere between 6 and 12 months ; that it varies in onset and intensity according to the child 's sex , its rank in the family , the number of people it meets regularly , its attachment to its mother and her responsiveness , and the age , size and sex of the stranger ; that it is different in the laboratory from at home . |
| 12 | I repeat that what is important is how a school deploys its teaching staff , not the number of people it happens to have on its books . |
| 13 | They are crippled by the number of people it takes to get something on the air , whereas in print , I mean it 's still a lot of people if you 're doing a daily paper , but one reporter can write a story and get it on the air , or get it in print . |
| 14 | Thus , between the mid-'50s and the mid-'60s , while manufacturing was declining relatively within the economy , the number of people it employed was still increasing . |
| 15 | Rosyth 's managing director , Allan Smith , said the job cuts were needed because the Ministry of Defence had reduced its workload and London Underground had cut the number of trains it wanted refurbished . |
| 16 | Should Japan be restricted in the number of cars it sells in the UK ? |
| 17 | As the company wants to increase the number of cars it sells in the UK rather than maximise profits , that is likely to mean price cuts . |
| 18 | However unfavourable the unemployment situation may be , most people would agree that a degree in any subject is a worthwhile investment in terms of the number of careers it opens up . |
| 19 | The association has avoided naming the number of councils it considers to be feasible . |
| 20 | The Government is yet to announce the number of councils it intends to introduce though present thinking favours about 30 . |
| 21 | The group doubled the number of passengers it carried last year to 1.65m and should perform even better this year following the purchase in September of Pickfords Travel from NFC for more than £16m . |
| 22 | It doubled the number of passengers it carries to 1.65m . |
| 23 | The government in turn accused the FMLN of compiling a dishonest inventory of the number of weapons it held and of having staged illegal land occupations after the signing of the peace treaty in order to boost its land tenure claims . |
| 24 | So for the meanwhile I continued with my ritualised observances , obsessively counting the number of steps it took me to walk to any given location , carefully avoiding the cracks in the pavement for fear that the bears of the id might get me , and attending to my bodily functions with the pure metrical devotion of a sadhu . |
| 25 | Each pack must also show the number of servings it contains . |
| 26 | In the 1983 election , the party won less than half the number of seats it had won in the larger cities in 1959 , the last election when it was returned with a three-figure majority . |
| 27 | PR 's sole concern is with the relationship between the number of votes each party has received and the number of seats it has been awarded . |
| 28 | Nature seems quite profligate in the number of ways it has arranged for embryos to construct organisms . |
| 29 | The relation LECTURER-MODULE gives the module number ( each compulsory unit and option is termed a module ) the name of the lecturer presenting the module and the number of weeks it lasts . |
| 30 | Stock would have been excluded from coppiced areas but the importance in the medieval scene of wood-pastures for stock-feed ca n't be over emphasised ; nearly every entry in Domesday quotes the area of woodland and the number of pigs it supports . |