Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Infant mortality rate is usually calculated as the number of infant deaths in a calendar year per 1,000 live births in the same year . |
| 2 | NEONATAL MORTALITY RATE — measures the chance of death during the first month of life ; it is calculated as the number of deaths under 28 days of age ( or under one month ) during a specified time period per 1,000 live births that occurred in the same period . |
| 3 | Incidences were calculated as the number of annual discharges in a population of 100000 in each age and sex groups . |
| 4 | Death rates were also calculated as the number of deaths per recorded discharge ( case mortality or fatal spell ratio ) . |
| 5 | The symptom index was calculated as the number of times the symptom occurred when the pH was below four , divided by the total number of times the symptom was reported ; this quotient was then multiplied by 100 to give the percentage of symptoms associated with reflux . |
| 6 | On the basis of the figures given for the number of infants requiring blood transfusion there is no significant difference between the two groups for either ventilated infants or all infants ( χ 2 test , two by two analysis ) . |
| 7 | When 0 is given as the number of parses , this indicates that the parser exited cleanly with no parses being found , a dash ( - ) indicates that the system crashed before a parse was obtained . |
| 8 | Assurances were given about the number of lesson visits on which judgments about teachers ' competence would be based , and an attempt to make the procedure more ‘ egalitarian ’ , or ‘ fraternal ’ was blocked . |
| 9 | The mass of the PFM is unknown and therefore the abundances are not to be regarded as the number of atoms per kilogramme of PFM , 20 Ne being arbitrarily placed at 10 22 atoms per kilogramme to facilitate comparison with the graphs for the planets . |
| 10 | A positive correlation has indeed been reported between the number of prescriptions for psychotropic drugs issued by general practitioners in England and Wales and the rate of deliberate self-poisoning , and it has been estimated that a reduction of 1000 psychotropic prescriptions would be associated with 3.8 fewer admissions as a result of deliberate self-poisoning ( Forster and Frost 1985 ) . |
| 11 | Should a question be included about the number of children in the unemployed person 's family ? |
| 12 | Advance booking is strongly recommended as the number of children visiting Santa may have to be limited . |
| 13 | We are frequently reminded by the media and by professionals of various kinds of the size of the increase which is to be expected in the number of those aged over 75 or 85 years by the end of the century . |
| 14 | Yet it is also stylized , very arty in its slow motion and repetitions , grotesquely exaggerated in the number of bullet hits scored on both bodies ( by the usual device of small charges and sachets of ‘ blood ’ ) and staged quite artificially . |
| 15 | Such an MNP will have to obtain separate indemnity cover for overseas branch offices ; only the gross fees of the MNP 's offices in England and Wales will be taken into account in calculating its indemnity contributions ; and those partners in the MNP who normally practise from overseas offices will not be included in the number of principals for the purpose of calculating the contributions . |
| 16 | In other words , if the destructive forces operating on the bone assemblages are so great as to destroy some of the mandibles and maxillae , but not great enough to destroy the teeth , the ensuing sample can be expected to contain an excess of isolated teeth over the numbers expected from the numbers of jaws . |
| 17 | The sale of council houses and flats , the soaring costs of capital projects in the 1980s , the loss of accommodation provided directly by employers ( for example , farmers and hoteliers ) , the increasing need for single-person or small-number occupancy dwellings for young people and small family units , have all added to the numbers of people without a home of their own . |
| 18 | My Lords , the , the point made by the Noble Lord is that it is an important one erm it is important that teachers do feel comfortable with this subject and to that end the erm grant for education support and training is making money available and religious education has been added to the number of subjects for which it can be made available to help with er improving specialisms in schools , but also pr improving co-ordination for religious education in schools . |
| 19 | He was appointed by a decree of the Russian government , by whose decision the Hermitage is now included among the number of especially important national cultural monuments . |
| 20 | Overwhelmed by the number of donors pushing their desire to lend , recipient governments were frequently unable to sort out their own priorities in a meaningful way . |
| 21 | Mr Philips further insisted : ‘ We were overwhelmed by the number of messages of support we received from across the North of Ireland , and we even got a phonecall from as far away as Greece . ’ |
| 22 | A spokesman said they had been overwhelmed by the number of applications when the new disability living benefit was announced and said it had taken longer than anticipated to sort out . |
| 23 | Well there is n't actually regrettably there is so much personal debt within the City , and the problem is rising to such an extent that all the bodies that provide money advice , including for example the Citizens ' Advice Bureau , which we also fund , are overwhelmed by the numbers of people coming to them . |
| 24 | Nor are details given of the number of Euramco shares that the respective investors purchased or subscribed for . |
| 25 | The proportional reduction in γ-interferon production appeared to be truly disease related as the numbers of γ-interferon positive intra epithelial lymphocytes and lamina propria lymphocytes returned towards normal on a gluten free diet , in parallel with the improvement in mucosal pathology and in other indices of immunopathology . |
| 26 | A decision might have to be made about the number of elderly people for which it is possible to take responsibility in any one family . |
| 27 | If the date is to be precise to the year of felling , the bark must also be present , otherwise an estimate must be made of the number of missing rings corresponding to likely wastage by the carpenter . |
| 28 | No estimates could be made of the number of systems or the number of applications involving personal data — guesses ranged from 50,000 to 350,000 . |
| 29 | A broad count was made of the number of individual programmes or courses , described or referred to , within all the information supplied by each authority , in order to impose a general framework on the data collected . |
| 30 | Orthographic content is estimated by a tedious but accurate procedure by which a count is made of the number of times each letter appears in each position in a word of specific length . |