Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun] of [noun] on " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Also provided , and not before time , are independent horizontal and vertical rules which means that keeping track of the number of lines of copy on a page is extremely easy , you simply set the vertical ruler scale to be the same as the leading .
2 A general impression was that the number of loans of theses on the physical sciences and technology was less than those on the Arts , Social Sciences , Theology , and other non-science subjects .
3 From the significant number of representations of bull-leaping on frescoes and sealstones , it is possible to reconstruct with some confidence the events that took place in the Bull Courts .
4 More recently , the potential of stylistics in language teaching has been underscored by the publication of a number of collections of articles on the subject ( Carter 1982 , Brumfit and Carter 1986 , Short 1989 , Carter and Simpson 1989 ) .
5 He granted a number of remissions of tolls on ships in the port of London — to the bishop of London ( S 1788 ) , for example , to the bishop of Rochester ( CS 152 : S 88 ) , to the abbess of Minster-in-Thanet ( CS 149 : S 86 ; CS 150 : S 87 ; CS 177 : S 91 ) and to the bishop of Worcester ( CS 171 : S 98 ) .
  Next page