Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun] must be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of accounts must be set up in this database . |
| 2 | As discussed in this chapter , a number of challenges must be met any time a transformational change is attempted : |
| 3 | But if this is to prove more than gesture politics , a number of challenges must be faced . |
| 4 | Whatever the medium a number of questions must be decided about an organization 's advertising effort . |
| 5 | Hunter ended his description with a comment on Maria and a hint as to his charges to Martin Van Butchell : ‘ This body … yet promises exceedingly well , nor do I see any great improvement to be made ; a number of experiments must be made before I embalm any other body , such as finding the exact proportion of moisture Paris Plaister will take up etc. but at present I know of no other Process at all useful and considering the trouble you must have during all these Processes now laid down , you ought not to undertake it under 100 Guineas . ’ |
| 6 | To avoid downward pressure upon these conditions a number of issues must be addressed including the form of employment contracts ( e.g. temporary , seasonal , part-time ) and the organisation of working hours . |
| 7 | To calculate the Laspeyres price index for 1985 , a number of steps must be followed : |
| 8 | Of course , a number of measures must be taken while more long-term structural reform is implemented . |
| 9 | In order for C to acquire good title under these provisions , a number of requirements must be fulfilled . |
| 10 | A number of comments must be made upon this remarkable passage . |
| 11 | The size of such settlements can easily be overestimated as the number of buildings must be viewed as a factor of the length of time the site was occupied and the frequency with which buildings were replaced . |
| 12 | Just as a statistical sample ( Chapter 5 ) must be of a certain size before reliable inferences concerning the population can be drawn , so a number of simulations must be run before the average behaviour can be treated as being descriptive of the real system . |
| 13 | Assuming therefore that the number of foxes must be controlled — as with rabbits or rats for instance — as painless a method of control as possible must be found . |
| 14 | A final point that has to be borne in mind is that in order to make generalizations based on the type of quantitative analysis pioneered by Labov , a large number of tokens must be analysed ( usually thousands ) ; however , it happens that some variables that are quite salient in the community occur relatively rarely , and so we can not make reliable quantitative statements about these covering the range of speaker variables , even though they may be involved in linguistic change and may be important for historical projections on to earlier English . |