Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AMES has been involved in important educational work and has published a number of pamphlets on the social and working conditions of women , within a general analysis of their double oppression . |
| 2 | By 1983 almost all the major areas of the Polytechnic were represented in the modular programme , and the number of students on the modular programme was by now greater than the total numbers of students in some colleges . |
| 3 | The book edited by Davies and Runcom ( 1980 ) contains a number of papers on the various suggested mechanisms . |
| 4 | If so , how does he justify the fear that there may be a number of fingers on the disintegrating Soviet strategic deterrent , when at the same time he seeks to justify the proliferation of nuclear strategic deterrents in the hands of France , the United Kingdom and the United States ? |
| 5 | These standards can be established by weighing a sufficient number of coins on a modern balance ( although there are problems in establishing ancient standards from the weight of surviving specimens ) . |
| 6 | The new flexible licencing programme will also — for the first time — allow users to take a product licence for a given number of users on a local area network , irrespective of hardware platform or number of systems . |
| 7 | The reason for the increasing size of forecasts of the demand for HE into the 1990s has been the recognition of the offsetting effects of a number of factors on the falling numbers of eighteen-year-olds . |
| 8 | Most maintenance companies are able to provide a number of options on a wide range of originally installed equipment . |
| 9 | You can not judge a TV campaign 's weight by the number of crosses on a visual . |
| 10 | Since the 1985 unrest , and particularly after the 1987 General Election , the Government has announced a number of initiatives on the inner city , and it has presented these as part of an effort to rejuvenate depressed areas on a sound basis . |
| 11 | The number of temples on the only predominantly Hindu island in Indonesia is astonishing . |
| 12 | The number of Greek-speakers on the Slav side , equally hard to be precise about , is perhaps half that . |
| 13 | To some degree the decreasing number of workers on the typical farm makes this close personal contact inevitable . |
| 14 | The cost of incremental encoders depends on the number of slots on the rotating disc . |
| 15 | [ That would correspond to the ordered n-tuple unc I With a little care one can even have an infinite number of terms on the right hand side . |
| 16 | Following the destruction of the main mill , the company converted a number of buildings on the opposite side of the road and purchased a second site , previously used for the manufacture of incubators . |
| 17 | We will ensure that the total number of warheads on the four-boat Trident system is limited to no more than that currently deployed on the Polaris system , and our Defence Review will consider whether we can reduce this further without threatening security . |
| 18 | A speciality of his was the supply of chimney-pieces and other elements of interior decoration , and of funerary monuments ; and an album of his designs of this type , later acquired by the library of the American Institute of Architects in Washington , indicates that he employed a number of carvers on a regular basis — the two principal names are Alexander van der Hagen and John Nelson of Shrewsbury [ qq.v. ] — to execute them . |
| 19 | He went on to repeat his demands during a number of interviews on the British Broadcasting Corporation 's Vietnamese-language service . |
| 20 | Councillor , my Lord Mayor , in accordance with standing order A seven B and D , I propose to Council that the debate on agenda item eleven , percentage for out policy and agenda item sixteen , notice of motion number nine , people disabilities , be combined with separate votes at the end of the debate and that a provision of the order A eleven J and A fourteen K be amended to limit the number of speakers on the combined debate to three from the controlling group and three from notion parties . |
| 21 | A number of cells on the mucosal surface projected lamellipodia into the epithelial gaps ( Fig 5F ) , while some neck cells had mitosis ( Fig 4C ) . |