Example sentences of "the number of [noun pl] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of responses is in itself a clear indication of the interest the Green Paper has aroused and the importance of the issues it has raised . |
| 2 | But I think that has now been tightened up and indeed the log of which I speak , and the audit manual has indeed increased the awareness of officers , increased their care in the handling of personal data , and the number of complaints is in fact reducing . |
| 3 | Firms within enterprise zones were also exempt from industrial training-board levies — hardly a massive concession , since the number of boards was to be substantially reduced throughout the 1980s . |
| 4 | Narcotics agents believe a conservative estimate of the number of laboratories is between 200 and 300 . |
| 5 | The number of foresters was to be limited under the supervision of the regarders : no warden or local Forest officer was to hold pleas of the forest , which were reserved for the Forest Eyre . |
| 6 | The curator 's nightmare is somewhere like the Smithsonian Institution in Washington , where the number of items is like grains of sand on the sea shore . |
| 7 | The World Cup Committee adhered strictly to the letter of their own rain-laws that ‘ in matches where play is interrupted or delayed the number of overs are to be rearranged so that both teams have the opportunity of batting for a minimum of 15 overs ( 25 overs in the semi-finals and finals ) according to the number of overs calculated on a basis of an average rate of 14 overs per hour . ’ |
| 8 | Ensure that the number of synonyms is at a minimum . |
| 9 | Even if the number of households were to be suddenly increased , if , for example , all households consisting of more than one family were to split into single-family households , there would apparently still be a crude surplus of dwellings . |