Example sentences of "[art] number [prep] [noun pl] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Education authorities are required to produce guidelines which describe how children are to be allocated to schools and which outline procedures for deciding between competing claims when the number of requests for a particular school exceeds the number of places available , and to publish information about particular schools . |
| 2 | Such an MNP will have to obtain separate indemnity cover for overseas branch offices ; only the gross fees of the MNP 's offices in England and Wales will be taken into account in calculating its indemnity contributions ; and those partners in the MNP who normally practise from overseas offices will not be included in the number of principals for the purpose of calculating the contributions . |
| 3 | How can a group be taken seriously , or be considered concerned , when it openly rejects co-operation with this two hundred and thirty million pound scheme which will very substantially increase the number of opportunities for the unemployed in Britain as a whole and in in particular . |
| 4 | The July 29 elections were preceded by a number of primary elections held on July 22 , reducing to 800 ( from over 2,400 ) the number of candidates for the People 's Great Hural . |
| 5 | Under the terms of Belau 's new electoral system the number of candidates for the presidency and vice-presidency had been narrowed to two through the holding of a first round elections on Sept. 22 , when incumbent President Ngiratkel Etpison was eliminated after finishing third with 24.8 per cent , behind Nakamura with 37.2 per cent and Toribiong with 37.9 per cent . |
| 6 | We are hoping to increase the number of classes for the elderly . |
| 7 | Yet , although the number of officials for every 2,000 head of population rose from one in the 1750s to about four in the 1850s , the proportion was still incomparably lower than that prevailing in the West . |
| 8 | His tabulator worked successfully , reducing the number of man-hours for the task by two-thirds . |
| 9 | His own analysis of government figures suggested that the number of prescriptions for the treatment of asthma had more than doubled to 27 million a year over the last decade . |
| 10 | The Iraqi newspaper Al-Iraq reported on Aug. 23 that the number of volunteers for the Popular Army had reached almost 5,000,000 . |
| 11 | In my local hospital in Withington , the number of beds for the elderly has decreased in the past few years from 140 beds to barely 20 . |
| 12 | There can be a number of reasons for a slow response . |
| 13 | There were a number of reasons for the lack of success . |
| 14 | 7.4 There are a number of reasons for the decision to use Personal Interviews as an Instrument of Assessment in PSD : |
| 15 | There were a number of preconditions for the advent of mass owner occupation , which first characterized the inter-war years ( Ball , 1983 ) . |
| 16 | The secretive nature of crime raises a number of problems for the study of crime . |
| 17 | Geographers are familiar with the concept of the central place — a locally or regionally important centre fulfilling a number of functions for the settlements around . |
| 18 | Charles Wesley ( 1868 ) wrote a number of hymns for the use of parents ; he himself lost his first two children . |
| 19 | The claimant employed a number of persons for the purpose of preparing and serving meals to other employees of its business . |
| 20 | Caterers , hoteliers , innkeepers and restaurateurs may have recourse to any one of a number of courts for a multiplicity of reasons ; the following are those which they are most likely to use . |
| 21 | In this regard it should be pointed out that although article 5 makes provision in a number of cases for a special jurisdiction which the plaintiff may choose , this is because of the existence , in certain clearly-defined situations , of a particularly close connecting factor between a dispute and the court which may be called upon to hear it , with a view to the efficacious conduct of the proceedings . |
| 22 | Mounting criticism of the inadequacy of the 1959 Act led to a number of proposals for a tax on betterment , by way either of a capital gains tax or of a betterment levy . |
| 23 | The period following the parliamentary victory saw a number of proposals for the demolition or conversion to secular use of the English cathedrals . |
| 24 | The student may consider a number of strategies for the investigation and select those which are considered appropriate eg in investigating the phasing of traffic lights at a road junction , the student may consider using trial and improvement , graphical techniques , algebraic analysis , calculus etc as strategies . |
| 25 | Mr Curran revealed the council was advancing a number of projects for the district including a major new tourist facility in Newcastle and a marina for Killough . |
| 26 | There are a number of accessories for the sander , including a sanding frame to allow even sanding of large areas , and a frame to hold the tool upside down for stationary use . |
| 27 | Miss Wise was a strong supporter of the B.D.D.A. and wrote a number of articles for the British Deaf Times , mostly about travel in France . |
| 28 | This gives rise to a number of advantages for the teacher or therapist . |
| 29 | The contract army had a number of advantages for the crown . |
| 30 | The water maze offers a number of advantages for the study of spatial learning in that within the tank the animal is quite unconstrained as to the direction it may take , though this must be balanced against the fact that the swimming task is somewhat stressful and the animal is learning how to reach a relatively precarious goal . |