Example sentences of "number [prep] [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disparity in numbers between the BWG and the LGWG meant different tactics . |
| 2 | The local youth centre raised the money for us to have a phone installed and we got a FreeFone number for the Exeter and Devon area . |
| 3 | These include 36 pianos ( 1770–1840 ) , nine harpsichords ( 1707–98 ) , an English virginal ( 1671 ) , a clavichord ( n.d. ) and information from a late 17th-century German manuscript relating notes , string materials and gauge numbers for a clavichord and an ‘ instrument ’ . |
| 4 | Examples include : the automatic generation of weather forecasts by a computer communicating with satellites , the selection of lists of random numbers for a competition or for the Premium Bond draw , programs which produce artistic designs or music automatically , being based upon a set of rules built into the program , a program designed to simulate some particular environment , such as climate , monetary systems , battle scenarios , etc . |
| 5 | He knew somehow that I was dealing with this section and gave me the serial number of a wagon and told me not to go anywhere near it . |
| 6 | the national insurance number of the individual or , if a company , the registration number |
| 7 | Tamworth , yeah , he works in Tamworth and she has to fetch him cos he does n't drive , sometimes she fetches him a rather that him get the bus home and so she was going along the main she said the name of the road , but I ca n't , th , the number of the road but I ca n't remember she says she saw rats just trotting down the side of the road , you know ! |
| 8 | She 'll have the number of the psychiatrist when I get back . ’ |
| 9 | There are also excellent tours from York into the surrounding area , where you can walk a number of the dales and moors , and see ancient abbeys , castles and fine stately homes . |
| 10 | Carella had taken the number of the taxi and we discovered that it had dropped the suspect outside the San Gallicano hospital in Trastevere . |
| 11 | Early the next morning , two coaches set-off from the County Hall on a six hour trip to visit a number of the sites that were connected with the Tirpitz raids . |
| 12 | or a target to be aimed at because when I saw the sixty seven I remembered it 's the number of the song that begins lord bless and pity us . |
| 13 | the name , address and telephone number of the school and the names of the headteacher and chair of governors ; |
| 14 | All work must be written by pupils and marked with names , ages , and the name , address and telephone number of the school and a teacher contact . |
| 15 | I think er a number of the things that are , are meant to be provocative this morning , for example how we get a clinical er evaluation er of patients selected for a T U R P or earlier treatment B P H , but also now |
| 16 | In the end I was burgled , and they got away with a large number of the works that I kept stored . |
| 17 | At least in what other poorer women were telling me , when it came to after work and weekends the men were quite the women were prepared to look after the children and felt it was their role to look after the children while the man was at work ; when the man came back he continued to feel that the woman should look after the children erm for the rest of the time , and the idea of a shared child care arrangement did not operate in at least a number of the families that I talked to and had been one of the causes of the breakdown of the marriage and one of the precipitating factors in the man physically abusing the woman . |
| 18 | Four samples of typing had subsequently been brought to Wickham , each identified by the registration number of the machine and the name of the person whose desk it normally stood on . |
| 19 | Glass sides are first marked with the specimen number of the sample and any ‘ way up ’ indications which have been preserved , using a diamond scribe near one edge of the obverse glass face . |
| 20 | Right N is the number of the sample and K is the number of parameters that you 've estimated in your model . |
| 21 | At 7 o'clock the office bearers , a number of the brethren and their lady friends sat down to a sumptuous repast in a granary tastefully decorated with evergreen and flags and after a long toast list the tables were removed for dancing . |
| 22 | If an incoming call is not convenient , explain why and take the name and number of the caller and offer to phone back . |
| 23 | the Number of the Cottages and Encroachments in the Forest … is nearly doubled since he had known it . |
| 24 | The policeman noted the registration number of the vehicle and passed it to the Kos police dealing with the investigation . |
| 25 | Now , could argue that Greater York could be bigger or smaller , the local government commission , erm er there report is a very interesting read , I mean a number of the options that they 've looked at would be a gra er a city of York going out to the ring road , erm that might be one option , there 's a there there idea of of Greater York , they did harden , they did see some merit in in a Greater York unitary authority based on the Greater York planning study I think , erm whether that is going to come to pass only Mr Gummer presumably er knows , so my idea of Greater York is that it 's an area which is tied socially and economically to the city , you could argue as mobility increases , as the A ni nineteen is improved up through the County that really Northallerton now is perhaps more within the sphere of influence of York than it was ten years ago , erm e it was probably to a degree influenced by York even twenty years ago , erm I do n't think er there is much to be gained by debating where Greater York ought to be , the Secretary of State previously has n't been bothered about er amending it er it seems to us to be the reasonable area , and it 's a combination of five districts , erm erm erm who who who hopefully should be working together towards sorting out the er other problems of Greater York . |
| 26 | Once closed , the Home Office will fall back on the well-worn refrain that legislation is required to make a surprisingly large number of the proposals that are put forward , and that no Parliamentary time is available . |
| 27 | As already suggested , it was paid participation in war which saved a large number of the nobility and , in certain cases , helped them improve their social status . |
| 28 | On 4 December he took his leave of the observers from other Churches in a prayer service which scandalized a number of the bishops because it breached the old rules against communicatio in sacris . |
| 29 | Although some children may be capable of finding there are the same number of things in two sets ( by matching ) , they may not be at all sure there are still the same number of the objects if one of the sets is differently arranged . |
| 30 | Some of the clergy were less fortunate , becoming victims of persecution by Puritan divines with few wider sympathies ; predominant among the latter was Francis Cheynell , a man instrumental in depriving a number of the cathedral and rural clergy . |