Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun pl] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of Germans registering their official exit from the church — the only way to avoid the charge — surged to a record last year as people sought to offset the one-off ‘ solidarity surcharge ’ imposed to meet the astronomical costs of unification . |
| 2 | The second has been the sheer number of institutions calling themselves tribunals . |
| 3 | From mid-September the security situation worsened , with a number of students burning themselves to death in protest . |
| 4 | When the Boundary Commission looks at these matters over every 10 years or so , demography and demographic conditions have to be considered , and it is less easy than it appears on paper simply to provide consistency in terms of the demographic relationship of the people living in the country and the number of Members representing them in the House . |
| 5 | But , although these two set precedents , there was no conspicuous increase in the number of slaves gaining their freedom . |
| 6 | The assumption that politics is not a place for women persists and must itself reduce the number of women putting themselves forward . |
| 7 | At this point mail may be sent to a number of users requesting they assess the module . |
| 8 | The number of parents sending their children to private schools has risen for the eighth year running , despite a downturn in the economy and an upturn in school fees , the Independent Schools Information Service revealed . |
| 9 | The reason it is a truly creative process is that finding any particular creature is extremely difficult , simply and purely because Biomorph Land is very very large , and the total number of creatures sitting there is all but infinite . |
| 10 | The number of listed companies rose by 428 during the four years , but the number of firms auditing them fell by 39 . |
| 11 | In other words , in a given time , the number of particles leaving the liquid equals the number of particles entering it . |
| 12 | But it is not likely that the Court of Appeal 's new power to review excessively lenient sentences ( see the Introduction ) , will greatly alter this state of affairs as there are a number of restrictions surrounding its exercise . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In the neighbourhood of a given probe , X , the most distant neighbour can be defined either as that probe whose own neighbourhood shares the smallest number of probes with X , or/and as that probe with the smallest number of clones connecting it with X . |
| 15 | This figure is known as the ‘ unit cost ’ , and is arrived at simply by dividing the total amount spent on a service ( e.g. nursery schools ) by the number of children using it ( expressed as ‘ full-time equivalents ’ , so that two part-time children would count as one full-time equivalent ) . |
| 16 | Do these words refer to the actual expense incurred by the school in providing the benefit or do they refer to the hypothetical expense incurred by the school arrived at by the formula of dividing the total cost of running the school by the number of pupils attending it or to put it more shortly do they refer to the additional or the average cost of the provision of the benefit . |
| 17 | I AM walking over hot coals , supended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs . |
| 18 | ‘ I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs , ’ he said of the fight against anti-Europeans in his own party . |
| 19 | In the breaking-down process we find a number of ideas suggesting themselves . |
| 20 | Stalin 's account also misrepresented the Austro-Marxist case , and he made a number of mistakes indicating his unfamiliarity with the subject . |
| 21 | Dubois actually wrote a number of poems arguing her claims against her father . |
| 22 | LIBERALDemocrat candidate Ian Cameron asked the police to intervene after a number of boards promoting his campaign were removed from land in the outlying village of Elwick . |