Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regis said : ‘ I do n't blame Linford one little bit — appearing in the number of rounds that he has would have taxed the strength of a superman . |
| 2 | Under this type of system , each frame of video picture is ‘ labelled ’ with its own reference number relating to the number of hours , minutes , seconds and frames which have elapsed since the beginning of the recording . |
| 3 | To qualify for the award , the companies submit their previous year 's accident rate , which is based on a formula relating to the number of days lost through injuries and accidents at work to the total number of employees . |
| 4 | No , I guess checking on the number of balls left in the over I think . |
| 5 | Thereafter some workers analyse the results according to the numbers of pebbles falling into specific categories . |
| 6 | Each department will be assigned a factor describing the risk of being unfairly sanctioned , which varies according to the numbers of studentships , which it will then combine with a measure assessing the department 's performance against a target rate of 70% submissions within four years ( for full-time students ) . |
| 7 | These 20 buyers would be chosen from a representative cross section of firms , according to the numbers in each level of output category . |
| 8 | In the ‘ packed-pixel ’ method , the sequence of memory bits is divided into blocks according to the number of bits required per pixel . |
| 9 | ‘ What that means is that NHS hospitals will be resourced according to the number of patients they treat . |
| 10 | Britain 's 10 biggest tour operators , according to the number of holidays they are licensed to sell in the year ending March 1990 : 1 . |
| 11 | Even in Leningrad , hospitals are financed according to the number of patients they treat . |
| 12 | Opted-out schools are funded directly according to the number of pupils they attract . |
| 13 | The amount of money received under formula funding will vary according to the number of pupils coming to the school . |
| 14 | Support to the numerous types of group varies according to the number of members , their objectives and location ( there are supplements in the LFA ) . |
| 15 | Some parasites of insect eggs , for instance , can stop a small population of pests from increasing , so application of a pesticide has to he timed according to the number of the larvae of the pests rather than the number of their eggs . |
| 16 | British Rail and SNCF usage charges , comprising a fixed annual amount and a variable element according to the number of passengers and tonnes of freight carried , will form a major part of Eurotunnel 's revenue and will be not less than 9m per month ( at 1987 prices and exchange rates ) for the first 12 years of operation . |
| 17 | The World Cup Committee adhered strictly to the letter of their own rain-laws that ‘ in matches where play is interrupted or delayed the number of overs are to be rearranged so that both teams have the opportunity of batting for a minimum of 15 overs ( 25 overs in the semi-finals and finals ) according to the number of overs calculated on a basis of an average rate of 14 overs per hour . ’ |
| 18 | They are classified according to the number of openings in the skull . |
| 19 | BRITISH motorists face higher road taxes under an EC plan to make them pay according to the number of miles they drive . |
| 20 | The amount is calculated according to the number of years for which you have paid contributions . |
| 21 | Now Hewlett-Packard Co is following Digital Equipment Corp in — as an option — charging for all HP 3000 and HP 9000 software according to the number of users on the machine , regardless of the processor size , the idea being that customers get to pay for what they actually use . |
| 22 | For HP 3000s , this software is priced per system , according to the number of users licensed for the HP MPE/iX operating system . |
| 23 | These are listed in Table 11.15 according to the number of rooms they operate . |
| 24 | To look for a dose-response relation we grouped the patients according to the number of cigarettes they smoked a day : none , 1–10 , 11–20 , and >21 . |
| 25 | Typical lengths are between 100 and 200 metres whilst widths vary quite widely according to the number of racks and cranes in the system . |
| 26 | Widths vary according to the number of retrieval units used but could be of the order of 10 metres . |
| 27 | A surface pump consists of a cast body incorporating the motor , a suction tube with a strainer attached , and one or more delivery tubes according to the number of outlets being serviced . |
| 28 | 1 Bilingualism proper versus multilingualism — according to the number of languages spoken . |
| 29 | These were analysed and a count was made of each word according to the number of times the word occurred in the conversation of the speaker and how many times in the total corpus ; also an account was made of the varies words related to the profession or social class of the speaker . |
| 30 | Pictures are taken at several ( eight ) different exposure levels and each point is weighted according to the number of times that it is seen . |