Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [prep] the number of " in BNC.
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| 1 | NEONATAL MORTALITY RATE — measures the chance of death during the first month of life ; it is calculated as the number of deaths under 28 days of age ( or under one month ) during a specified time period per 1,000 live births that occurred in the same period . |
| 2 | The log interpretation lithological model reflects the core information as much as possible with the restriction that the number of unknowns ( minerals ) is limited by the number of logs recorded in order to maintain the stability of the computation model . |
| 3 | In contrast , a female 's reproductive potential is limited by the number of eggs she can produce . |
| 4 | The resolution of animals with large eyes is limited by the number of light receptors they have , and how closely these are packed together . |
| 5 | This exploding complexity of larger and larger units must impose some limitations on the capabilities of management , ie the span of control is limited by the number of inter-relationships that one person can manage . |
| 6 | When 0 is given as the number of parses , this indicates that the parser exited cleanly with no parses being found , a dash ( - ) indicates that the system crashed before a parse was obtained . |
| 7 | Orthographic content is estimated by a tedious but accurate procedure by which a count is made of the number of times each letter appears in each position in a word of specific length . |
| 8 | The character of an element is decided by the number of protons in its nucleus . |
| 9 | Spatial frequency is less intuitively obvious but is related to the number of times the display cycles from light to dark to light again as you go a fixed distance in a single direction across the display . |
| 10 | For example , government expenditure on unemployment benefits is related to the number of people out of work ; state pensions are related to the number of people over retirement age ; and taxation receipts are influenced by the incomes of the community ( via direct taxes ) and by prices ( via indirect taxes ) . |
| 11 | ( b ) The weight gain of the birds per day is related to the number of flowers on its territory ( territories change size between days ) . |
| 12 | The council tax is related to the number of people in a house , but it offers more generous treatment for people such as students , who will not add to the household bill . |
| 13 | For a system in a given state , the entropy is related to the number of distinguishable arrangements the components in that state can adopt , and can be calculated from the Boltzmann law , where W is the number of statistical microstates available to the system . |
| 14 | The most important of the new parameters is the so-called ‘ structural effect ’ which is related to the number of degrees of freedom ‘ 3 c ’ which a molecule possesses , divided by the number of external contacts q . |
| 15 | The team secretary , Paul Williams , said : ‘ We have had phenomenal numbers on the hills this winter and obviously the number up there is related to the number of accidents . ’ |
| 16 | Where the number of shares is exceeded by the number of options written , the position is known as a partially covered hedge . |
| 17 | But the inefficiency of this system is reflected in the number of contaminated foodstuffs reaching supermarket shelves in the Philippines , Sri Lanka , Malaysia , Singapore , Aotearoa and Australasia . |
| 18 | Ms Davidson suggests that PR is now valued more than ever before and this is reflected in the number of highly qualified people coming into the industry . |
| 19 | But that is measured by the number of workers — which has declined sharply . |
| 20 | The effect of these EDMs is measured by the number of signatures they attract when they are printed on the daily Order paper . |
| 21 | The width of the game 's popularity throughout the world is shown by the number of countries to which Kay & Company have sold stones . |
| 22 | The strength of coupling between two papers is shown by the number of shared citations in the reference lists of these papers ( Smith ) . |
| 23 | The teacher in charge is flustered over the number of boys who sloped off to buy food . ’ |
| 24 | As for pricing on the new DB2/6000 , this is tied to the number of concurrent use connections , and starts at $2,000 for up to two users on a baby RS/6000 to $57,600 for over 256 users on a top-end machine . |
| 25 | Under it , the cost of software is tied to the number of users who actually use the software rather than an arbitrary number of perceived users . |
| 26 | This is based on the number of rooms in the hotel , not its tariff . |
| 27 | One type of classification of reptiles is based on the number of holes in the skull . |
| 28 | A regulatory penalty can also be imposed where an ESL is late , and that is based on the number of days late . |
| 29 | Its success is not necessarily based on the number of convictions ; often , it is based on the number of assaults and atrocities that are prevented by the questioning of certain people . |
| 30 | During acceleration the number of steps to the target ( COUNT ) is compared to the number of deceleration values ( DECVAL ) . |