Example sentences of "proportion to [art] number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A FUND standing at about £200,000 which was raised to give aid and comfort to homecoming British prisoners after the Second World War is alleged to be growing in direct proportion to the number of old soldiers dying without ever seeing a penny of it . |
| 2 | The money which is collected from PRS licences is distributed to the society 's members ( the writers and publishers ) in proportion to the number of times their works have been played . |
| 3 | If this book were written in proportion to the number of species in the group the rest of it would have to be devoted to the insects . |
| 4 | The general rule is that the efficiency of a country 's intelligence operations is in inverse proportion to the number of agencies it operates . |
| 5 | Schofield pointed out that failures to find are naturally in proportion to the number of successes — one man 's success being another 's failure . |
| 6 | Henry went on to point out the evils of sweated labour and the pay make-up system , how it fostered a disinclination to work and how it encouraged landless men to marry just so that their income would be augmented ‘ in proportion to the number of their children ’ , and how it led to degradation of the character : ‘ The weak , the indolent , and worthless worker is now secure of the maximum payment settled by the standards you have determined from parish funds , and the industrious , skilful and honest workman can expect no more … the pernicious and demoralising practice of paying wages out of rates … ought to be suppressed and prohibited . ’ |
| 7 | The following method was used : ( a ) a date of interview ( nominated date ) was randomly selected from all 1096 days in the study period , ( b ) the control was then randomly allocated an age at which to be interviewed , ( c ) the date of birth was calculated from age and date of interview , ( d ) an obstetric hospital was randomly chosen in proportion to the number of births in 1986 , and ( e ) random numbers were used to select a particular infant from those born on the date of birth in the nominated obstetric hospital . |
| 8 | Thirdly , the respect in which the courts are held gives their decisions an influence out of proportion to the number of cases they deal with . |
| 9 | A quota — 25% , 20% or 16.7% in constituencies of three , four or five members respectively — is in effect a barrier , more or less formidable in proportion to the number of votes ( not necessarily all of first preference ) that a party can attract . |
| 10 | The profitability of an organization is in inverse proportion to the number of filing cabinets it has |
| 11 | The level would be uniform for the whole country and the proceeds would be distributed to local authorities in proportion to the number of adults in their area . |
| 12 | The French writer V A Graicunas devised a formula to show how the number of possible relationships between members of an organisation increases geometrically in proportion to the number of members : where N is the total number of possible relationships and n is the number of members . |
| 13 | A uniform business rate set by government with the proceeds distributed to all local authorities in proportion to the number of adults in their areas ; |
| 14 | However , if droplets of helium form then the random collisions of atoms and molecules on the droplet largely cancel out whilst the tendency for gravitational separation rises in proportion to the number of atoms in the droplet . |
| 15 | Third , the less ‘ verbish ’ the verbs in the poem are , the greater their lexical power tends to be , lexical power being in inverse proportion to the number of different terms with which a given term is habitually associated ( ‘ the fewer the items with which a given item is likely to collocate … the more ‘ powerful ’ it is said to be ’ ) ; and the more powerful , and less ‘ verbish ’ , words are ‘ items of violence ’ , such as ‘ staggering ’ . |
| 16 | This restricts the amount payable under the ‘ Insurance for Fatal Accidents ’ section in proportion to the number of policyholders . |
| 17 | The supposed crisis resulted from rapidly growing numbers of elderly people in proportion to the number of wage earners in the population , low economic growth and taxpayer resentment at the " burdens " of welfare . |
| 18 | The theory also claims that while some languages ( e.g. Russian and Arabic ) have stress-timed rhythm similar to that of English , others ( such as French , Telugu and Yoruba ) have a different rhythmical structure called syllable-timed rhythm ; in these languages , all syllables , whether stressed or unstressed , tend to occur at regular time-intervals and the time between stressed syllables will be shorter or longer in proportion to the number of unstressed syllables . |