Example sentences of "[art] number [prep] way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so he went on through the calculator to get the number of ways for ten buttons — 3,628,800 . |
| 2 | This is a nice example of the ‘ combinatorial explosion ’ : the fact that the number of ways of arranging n things grows very rapidly with n and becomes essentially infinite even for quite moderate values of n . |
| 3 | I suggested that they might look at smaller numbers of buttons , and see if they could spot how the number of ways of pressing them was growing . |
| 4 | The number of ways of packing is reduced since the empty volume available becomes more and more correlated with the molecules . |
| 5 | The German mathematician Karl Jacobi found a beautiful connection between the number of ways in which a given positive integer can be written as a sum of at most four squares and the sum of the numbers that divide it . |
| 6 | Both young and old , people are punished in a number of ways for the failure to achieve . |
| 7 | There are a number of ways of solving this such as … . |
| 8 | The building regulations of the Department of the Environment suggest a number of ways of doing this . |
| 9 | In re-opening the agreement , the court had a number of ways of ‘ relieving the debtor or a surety from payment of any sum in excess of that fairly due and reasonable . ’ |
| 10 | There are a number of ways of cueing a sound tape , but the simplest way is to record a guide onto a spare track to show where each section of the music should start and end . |
| 11 | In fact there are a number of ways of obtaining structured CPE at only a fraction of the cost associated with courses , and with very much less disruption to the professional 's work-load . |
| 12 | We have a number of ways of dealing with the elderly in Western societies . |
| 13 | There are a number of ways of using the dialogue between parent and professional . |
| 14 | A THERE are a number of ways of propagating a Passiflora caerulea . |
| 15 | But by the middle of the following day , under the relentless desert sun , the temperature of the water can have reached 40 ° C. The spadefoot has a number of ways of helping the developing embryo to survive this particular ordeal . |
| 16 | A number of ways of seeking happiness are possible , and discussed by Freud , first of all in common-sense terms . |
| 17 | As Goodman ( 1976 ) and Smith ( 1978 ) have pointed out , information is richly available on the printed page , and there are a number of ways of determining the identity of a letter or word . |
| 18 | There are a number of ways of assessing specific criteria . |
| 19 | Here , it is sufficient to point out that there are a number of ways of researching a commercial . |
| 20 | There are a number of ways of overcoming this problem of deteriorating skills . |
| 21 | Now , there are a number of ways of responding to this ‘ fact ’ . |
| 22 | The nurseries experimented with a number of ways of inviting parents to contribute to the records of their own children and of the nursery . |
| 23 | There are a number of ways of structuring the deal . |
| 24 | There are a number of ways of dealing with these risks when they are unwanted as opposed to being deliberately chosen in the hope of making capital gains . |
| 25 | People have a number of ways of holding their wealth . |
| 26 | It is true that there are quite a number of ways of making a living — flying , swimming , swinging through the trees , and so on . |
| 27 | But because it is deictic it is context-sensitive , and there are a number of ways of using the utterance The sun shines brightly and a number of contexts in which it might occur . |
| 28 | ‘ We are studying a number of ways of dealing with the problem . |
| 29 | There are a number of ways of classifying banking activities . |
| 30 | These shopfloor pressures presented an important challenge to trade unions to which , as dynamic and changing institutions , they responded in a number of ways including attempts to decentralise wage negotiations ( as in certain industries in Britain , and to a more limited extent in West Germany ) . |