Example sentences of "[adj -er] number [prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( ii ) It must be a matter for policy and operational decision by the police as to how they reconcile and balance the need on the one hand to bring an individual offender swiftly to book and deter crime , and on the other , the desirability of apprehending a larger number of offenders and recovering property ( post , p. 238A–B ) . |
| 2 | Clearly , it must be a matter for policy and operational decision by the police as to how they reconcile and balance the need on the one hand to bring an individual offender swiftly to book and deter crime , and on the other , the desirability of apprehending a larger number of offenders and recovering property . |
| 3 | In Western societies , men ( even those in process work ) still tend to be taught to seek relationships with a larger number of people and to control the amount of emotion they invest in these relationships . |
| 4 | A common law country will usually interpret the phrase to include almost anything which is not a criminal matter , but civil lawyers use a larger number of categories and take differing views on the relationship of administrative or public law matters , fiscal cases , or those including questions of personal status , to the categories of ‘ civil ’ and ‘ commercial ’ . |
| 5 | Because of the uncertainty surrounding this important issue we undertook this study , looking at a much larger number of patients and measuring several indices of oesophageal function . |
| 6 | More experienced observers tended to note a greater number of aspects and produced related clusters and sub-groups indicative of sensed assonances . |