Example sentences of "[art] number [prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possible methods of speeding up collection include increasing the numbers of bailiffs and contacting non-payers by telephone . |
| 2 | In the table at the right of Figure 1 I have given rough figures for the numbers of neurons and synapses in the human neocortex . |
| 3 | This damage to the training infrastructure may take years to repair The current Government funding regimes for both ET and YT are reducing the numbers of providers and offer insufficient incentives to encourage new organisations to enter the market . ’ |
| 4 | In planning for development , principally to increase the numbers of participants and to improve standards of performance in their sports , bodies need to take account of a number of factors . |
| 5 | The numbers of patients and mean random haemoglobin A 1 values with standard deviations are given in table III for those patient , general practitioner , and practice variables significantly associated with differences in glycaemic control . |
| 6 | Possible complications and side-effects are ignored or minimised in a target-oriented programme because it is more important to add to the numbers of acceptors than to help women make an informed choice about contraception . |
| 7 | This twofold crisis of resources has generated an imperative to limit the numbers in prison and to deal with more offenders outside the prison ‘ in the community ’ , but without overloading the probation service . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Although my household and ARP duties did not allow of a visit to the Western hospital some folk came to see us at the main post , and laugh at the fact that the Steward of the hospital had had to send the last of his well-trained clerks to Egypt to help count the number of prisoners and try to get the provision for them in some sort of order . |
| 10 | As hydrogen bonds are thermally labile a rise in T reduces the number of bonds and causes eventual phase separation . |
| 11 | First , Suenens proposed a plan d'ensemble , an overall plan , to reduce the number of topics and give some direction to their work . |
| 12 | Branson had drawn up what was to become known as the ‘ Million List ’ — the number of things that had to be taken care of in the next three months before the airline could fly . |
| 13 | It is also helpful to record past trends eg growth in membership , the number of coaches or standing in Commonwealth , European or World rankings . |
| 14 | Although the number of genes that encode intracellular protein tyrosine-kinases in the human genome may be quite large , relatively few have been isolated , and the protein products of even fewer have been analysed . |
| 15 | Concentration of updates in a particular area — case 3 above — reduces the number of blocks that have to be read and in the most extreme case , where all or none of the records in a block require updating , the percentage of records that need to be read would not change due to blocking . |
| 16 | We tried to keep track of the number of taps and translate them into words . |
| 17 | Well er in the early days , erm there were occasions where erm if I may say so , that , that just to divert for a moment , the scheme had to have supervision , and there was an increase in the staff , the number of foremen and chargehands increased . |
| 18 | If the Government wanted to reduce the number of obstacles that prevent prosecution of offenders , thereby making convictions more certain , they would alter the mens rea principle under section 12(1) of the 1988 Act and import the term ’ knowing or believing ’ from section 22 of that Act . |
| 19 | Such was the number of committees that writing itself had to be suspended . |
| 20 | For example , the school day and week were changed to increase the number of periods but reduce the amount of time pupils spent moving around the school between lessons . |
| 21 | But I mean it 's it er it was great I mean the fact that I was I mean in in Aberdeen I was away from home , I mean you did n't even notice it , because of the number of Orcadians that popped in by the hospital and as I said sent cards and letters , it was great . |
| 22 | Increasing the number of letters and decreasing the orthographic redundancy both served to make nonwords harder to pronounce , but this effect was less noticeable with true words . |
| 23 | These subjective factors open up the number of variations that need to be considered and hence leads to an underconstrained design situation that can stimulate major changes in product concepts . |
| 24 | This gives a rough idea of the number of choices that have to be carried forward in order to produce word graphs of this size . |
| 25 | She 'd started with a small ad in a contact magazine , and a box number to keep the entire business at arm 's length ; she could n't believe the number of replies that came in . |
| 26 | These fabrics come in various gauges , referred to by the number of holes or threads to 2.5 cm ( 1 ″ ) . |
| 27 | Given the number of mergers that have happened over recent years , it 's becoming a rare event when a firm can celebrate its centenary with the same name it started out with . |
| 28 | As a result , there has been a steady growth in the number of companies that have an audit committee — around two-thirds of the top 150 UK listed industrial companies and the great majority of UK listed financial institutions now have audit committees , and in more than half these cases , the committees were established within the past five years . |
| 29 | ‘ The number of companies that do n't have the right picture is amazing , ’ Mr Desoutter says . |
| 30 | I mean , I think , there is something there that needs pursuing , I 'm not accusing all judges of being , inherently , you know , nutty , or , whatever , but , the number of cases that have come to light in the last few years , whether it 's because the press have just decided to home in on them , |