Example sentences of "[art] number of [det] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , before offering in 1985 to put health warnings on shop facias and canopies , the industry expanded hugely the number of such signs without warnings . |
| 2 | The apparent excess of fathers monitored for radiation among children with leukaemia does not seem to be because the number of such fathers in the control group was unusually low by chance . |
| 3 | The 30MW sets were extremely conservative ( the first set with the standard conditions had been commissioned as long ago as 1929 ) , but Pask , the chief engineer , resisted pressure to reduce the number of such sets in the early years and concentrate more on the 60MW design . |
| 4 | Furthermore , though the number of persons suffering from a mental disorder who can not be helped on a voluntary basis is relatively small , the number of such persons in the community is likely to increase . |
| 5 | We have seen ( pp. 30–1 , above ) that the vast expansion in the number of such fires in the postwar years had provided consumers with a way of avoiding the consequences of coal rationing , but the effects on the electricity supply system were devastating . |
| 6 | Thus it can be concluded that the LTP , and in contrast to Bliss 's group , other labs reported that there was an increase in the number of these receptors in hippocampal neurons following induction of LTP , thus moving the focus of interest about mechanism from the pre-to the postsynaptic side . |
| 7 | However , the number of these cases in the local weekly , Middlesex Chronicle , shows that there are likely to be large variations among local newspapers in the amount of coverage of these residual sexual offences . |
| 8 | The local council in Yokohama hopes to increase the number of these trucks to 30 in the near future . |
| 9 | Towards the end of the century pornographic magazines , which extensively used the sexual content of cases with accompanying obscene prints , began to emerge and the number of these kinds of magazines increased appreciably after 1800 . |
| 10 | SAVE itself has prepared a number of such schemes for Billingsgate Market , the No 1 poultry site opposite the Bank of England and for Spitalfields Market , all in the City of London . |
| 11 | The issue had come to light following a break-in at the office of his solicitor ( one of a number of such incidents in recent months at premises connected with political parties or with individual politicians ) and the theft of a document on the affair . |
| 12 | Both I and my officials have had a number of such discussions with a variety of people . |
| 13 | Wyld also cites a number of such spellings in nasal environments that recapitulate Patterson 's Jenuary , exemine : they are Jenewary , axemyne ( 'examine' ) , exemynyde , Crenmer , Frencis . |
| 14 | Fortunately there are a number of such schools in London including American , Canadian , French , German , Dutch , Swedish , Spanish , Norwegian and Greek schools . |
| 15 | It is likely that general SVQs will be developed in a number of these areas for implementation in 1993 . |
| 16 | A number of these articles of scientific interest were produced by L. Ashwell Wood . |
| 17 | I intend to keep the fry in a number of these nets for the first few weeks of their lives and feed them on newly hatched brine shrimp . |
| 18 | Despite the process of democratization , the government continued to pursue a number of these dissidents through the courts . |
| 19 | It may package a number of these restraints as a business format franchise , and charge a fee or a royalty , or some combination . |
| 20 | The difficulty is I want to try and be helpful erm er er my Right Honourable Friend has , has made a number of conceptions and we have er put down in my name a number of these amendments to the Bill in order to try and meet those very concessions and those the anxieties which your Lordships have have expressed . |
| 21 | The closing part of this chapter will raise a number of these issues with a view to alerting us all to the realities against which aspirations have to be aligned , if not reconciled . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , it is possible to combine the most feasible aspects of a number of these theories into a reasonably coherent explanation of football hooliganism . |
| 23 | Given that the Labour party has pledged to abolish the UBR , will not the consequence inevitably be higher business rates for many businesses , which Labour says it is concerned about , leading a number of those businesses to the very edge of bankruptcy and liquidation and increasing unemployment as a consequence ? |