Example sentences of "to [art] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no limit to the number of ways to raise money . |
| 2 | Just how great the change has been is perhaps best illustrated by reference to the number of daily commuters into London . |
| 3 | The time signature is merely a guide to the number of minims , crotchets and quavers there are in a bar . |
| 4 | Unlike serious pollsters , the brewer 's flaccid organ fails to report the size of the sample of Scousers interviewed but it is believed to be adjacent to the number of fans at a Tranmere Rovers away match . |
| 5 | In the ‘ packed-pixel ’ method , the sequence of memory bits is divided into blocks according to the number of bits required per pixel . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | DIPLOMATIC niceties have been exploited to the utmost during the continuing occupation by would-be East German emigrants of the West German embassy in Prague , where a West German diplomat yesterday intervened dramatically to add to the number of new arrivals inside . |
| 8 | Hogg 's tone changed dramatically when announcing official reaction to the number of dismissals — up from 18 to 32 , plus one match abandoned — in the first four weeks of the season . |
| 9 | ‘ What that means is that NHS hospitals will be resourced according to the number of patients they treat . |
| 10 | If anything , the rarity of such successes ( disproportionately few in relation to the number of writers and artists ) testifies to the crucial place of Arts Council grants for minorities in British society . |
| 11 | Britain 's 10 biggest tour operators , according to the number of holidays they are licensed to sell in the year ending March 1990 : 1 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The review abolished local authority representation in health service bodies , gave a greater role to the Audit Commission to ensure value for money , gave doctors budgets and linked a greater share of their salaries to the number of patients treated , and held out the possibility of hospitals ‘ opting out ’ and becoming self-governing . |
| 14 | But there is a limit to the number of profitable assets which can be sold . |
| 15 | In 1989 it was planned that doctors would have to work to new contracts , under which their pay would be more clearly related to the number of patients . |
| 16 | Table 11.1 gives a general guide to the number of time zones between the United Kingdom and other countries . |
| 17 | Like many others in the industry , Miles points to the number of fast food outlets opening every day as an indication of the continuing popularity of deep-fried foods and adds that unhealthy frying is caused principally by poor frying practices . |
| 18 | Furthermore , David McHarg , clerk of the course at Kelso and other Scottish tracks , said that when the transport allowances from the Levy Board were cut off it made no difference whatsoever to the number of runners . |
| 19 | Even in Leningrad , hospitals are financed according to the number of patients they treat . |
| 20 | The woman , seeing the number 430 crumpled in my fist , pointed to the number above her window . |
| 21 | Refer constantly to the number of dump-bins , shelf-wobblers and spinners you have persuaded W H Smith to take . |
| 22 | To be genuinely useful , it is essential to include some reference to the number of elements involved in any one ‘ object ’ described as a single item . |
| 23 | It has been estimated , however , that at no point in the century did membership of such Societies exceed 6,000 , a figure roughly comparable to the number of adherents of the New Jerusalem Church of the Swedenborgians . |
| 24 | Despite frequent references in the press to the number of Party functionaries in leading posts at the Front , such criticisms persisted . |
| 25 | There is , after all , a limit to the number of schools or hospitals in a town that you can go to without everyone getting bored or the whole business seeming increasingly contrived . |
| 26 | Her third single — SAW 's version of her old favourite , Little Eva 's ‘ The Loco-Motion ’ , — had soared to the number two slot maintaining her record of getting her releases in the top two . |
| 27 | In other words , careful grouping procedures must be applied to the number of lines and to the curves . |
| 28 | The distance between any two points would then he proportional to the number of neurones a message must traverse to get from one to the other ; it would also be roughly proportional to the time taken for a neural message to travel between them . |
| 29 | His threat reflected anger at the results of an internal party election that relegated him to the number four spot in the party leadership and his supporters to inferior slots on the party ticket . |
| 30 | Opted-out schools are funded directly according to the number of pupils they attract . |