Example sentences of "be the number " in BNC.
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| 1 | An equally explicit consequence of the emphasis on the role of the state has been the number of prestige projects associated with the promotion of the individual personality of the head of state . |
| 2 | He ended his presentation of forty-five minutes precisely , with the words , ‘ We have been the number one in the United States for many years , now we aim to be the number one in Europe , in South America , the Middle East … . ’ |
| 3 | One of the features of the haulage industry in the 1980s has been the number of firms using subcontract hauliers who are owner-drivers . |
| 4 | She had been so young and ignorant then ; the most important thing in life had been the number of young men who were anxious to dance the opening quadrille with her . |
| 5 | One complaint against step aerobics has been the number of unqualified people taking the classes . |
| 6 | More significant are the numbers of votes actually cast , since these enter into the calculation of the quota normally required for a candidate 's election . |
| 7 | Counting numbers those are the numbers you use for counting things with like three or six or most people call them the normal numbers . |
| 8 | The numbers beside rows are the numbers of free positions . |
| 9 | Obvious indicators of this are the numbers with occupational pensions : in 1973 only 60 per cent of men over 55 in full-time employment belonged to a pension scheme run by their current employer . |
| 10 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what are the numbers of people employed by Derbyshire county council ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 11 | These are the numbers by which the file is known in RMS . |
| 12 | Now those that those are the numbers that we guarantee to print . |
| 13 | The axes of the graph are the number of specimens and the number of dies . |
| 14 | The delay time is governed by two factors , which are the number of stages in the circuit , and the speed at which the samples are passed from one stage to the next . |
| 15 | If you are the number one in the market and have the strongest brands it could be argued that you do not necessarily need to have the strongest people ! |
| 16 | That is , if one were to attempt to visualize the three personae involved in terms of a novel or play one would need pages to describe the kinds of interchange that Shakespeare renders in a quatrain : ‘ Trice threefold ’ , too , are the number of lines taken up by editors trying to pin down the multiple shifts of identity which take place in these four lines . |
| 17 | Also the subject of discussion and refinement during the first term are the number of offers to be made for each field to reach the target ( the offer ratio ) and the A level grades normally required for entry . |
| 18 | The main differences are the number of oral papillae : up to 6 or 7 in O. oxycraspedon and only 4 perhaps 5 oral papillae in the Biogas specimen . |
| 19 | The conditions for equilibrium in the intermediate good market are that where n m , n r are the number of manufacturing and retailing firms , respectively . |
| 20 | The first criteria are the number , positions and intensities of bands ; these may be compared with calculated parameters or semi-empirical predictions , and with the spectra of related species for which assignments are firmly established . |
| 21 | ‘ We are the number one chain of ‘ American ’ restaurants in Europe . |
| 22 | The main ones are the number of parses that are produced and the limited extent of the grammatical coverage . |
| 23 | In the first case , the maturity value of the deposit at the end of two months is where is the current l-month rate , is the 1-month rate beginning in one month 's time , and N 1 and N 2 are the number of days in the months of January and February . |
| 24 | The first 2 digits ( most significant 2 bytes ) are the number of files handles still available for use by the filing system ( & 5a =90 ) . |
| 25 | the first 2 digits ( most significant 2 bytes ) are the number of files handles still available for use by the filing system ( & 5a =90 ) . |
| 26 | The Daily Telegraph Young Jazz All Stars ' teamed up with Paul Young , from Mike and the Mechanics , to perform 'You are the number one' , soccer 's European Championship anthem . |
| 27 | Yeah , the number of your hands are the number of your hands to mine . |
| 28 | But it 's unlikely you 'll have heard of ’ Awatinas ’ … as they 're the number one group in Bolivia . |
| 29 | Well we 're travel retailers and primarily dealing with overseas holidays and erm with five hundred shops round the country we 're the number one retailer . |
| 30 | I continued to chair the inquiry into pensions and later took over family policy when the much liked Minister of State for Social Security , Rhodes Boyson , went off to be the number two in Northern Ireland . |