Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] [prep] [art] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has the advantage of being expressed as a number and is thus amenable to statistical analysis , but it does not recognise different types of colonic pressure waves . |
| 2 | Throughout any individual 's life , relationships and feelings of being attached to a number of significant people are important for our good emotional health . |
| 3 | These were to be based on a number of polytechnics and other further education establishments which already possessed strong departments of management and in some cases the designation related to a single establishment and in others to a grouping of two or more colleges . |
| 4 | Adult speech which contains a relatively high proportion of statements or declaratives has been associated with accelerated language development in young children , while studies of pre-schoolers have indicated that conversations are more likely to be maintained over a number of turns if adults make positive contributions by adding new information ( Wood et al . |
| 5 | The behaviour of privatised industries will have to be studied over a number of years before it is possible to conclude whether the ownership of the company ( ie private or public ) or the market structure ( ie competitive or monopolistic ) is the major determinant of corporate behaviour . |
| 6 | An historical event was seen to be constructed from a number of different ‘ happenings ’ perceived as having specific meanings . |
| 7 | A region 's competitiveness is likely to be influenced by a number of factors . |
| 8 | His consolation has to be that although she is , as an ideal , constantly changing , ‘ yet she dies only when the race of men is dead — then to be gathered to the number of the Gods . ’ |
| 9 | LIFESPAN allows modules which are no longer required to be maintained in the on-line storage areas to be archived across a number of offline storage media types via the Offline System , and provides automatic control of the offlining and recovery of modules . |
| 10 | A decision might have to be made about the number of elderly people for which it is possible to take responsibility in any one family . |
| 11 | This needs to be incremented by the number of unused pages you are lacking , so in this example we need to add to our total global pages count , giving us a new required total of 4050 . |
| 12 | The mass of the PFM is unknown and therefore the abundances are not to be regarded as the number of atoms per kilogramme of PFM , 20 Ne being arbitrarily placed at 10 22 atoms per kilogramme to facilitate comparison with the graphs for the planets . |
| 13 | It 's typical of the states I get in here I suddenly told myself that the digging would have to be done over a number of days , the only stupid thing was to expect to do it all in one . |
| 14 | During the next two years , although Anglo-papal relations continued to be strained by a number of minor irritations , further serious disturbance was avoided . |
| 15 | Part of the point of an exercise such as this is that it can be supplemented with a variety of additional linguistic models which enable the analysis to be developed in a number of different directions . |
| 16 | The graphing feature is particularly impressive and allows tables of data to be converted into a number of different graph types . |
| 17 | The numbers of animals were supposed to be limited to the number their farms could support in winter . |
| 18 | This tendency has to be limited by a number of mechanisms which the course has evolved . |
| 19 | The results , which they have dubbed ‘ LIFE ’ ( lung-imaging fluorescent endoscope ) machines , are about to be tested in a number of American hospitals . |
| 20 | ‘ It seems certain that even the small change in the balance of power between professionals and parents brought about by the Act have yet to be realized in a number of Authorities ’ ( Goacher et al . |
| 21 | The amount each local authority receives is likely to be calculated on the number of people in each area who are on the Poll Tax Register . |
| 22 | He looked at the crime figures reported by the Merseyside police , where the increase in clear-up rates could be shown to be related to the number of prison visits by police officers . |
| 23 | The implementation of these and other objectives is to be achieved by a number of courses of action , including keeping under constant review forms from subject areas informing the library of current topics and themes for research , ensuring " that staff queries received prompt response from the management committee " and training staff in the use of the microfiche reader . |
| 24 | Gene analysis also means that conditions such as cleft palate and cancer which are known to be caused by a number of social and environmental factors are being looked at for their ’ genetic component ’ . |
| 25 | Indeed , a quota was said to be imposed on the number of warrants which the Home Office would permit the police at any one time in order to ensure that the need for existing warrants was carefully scrutinized . |
| 26 | Part of the explanation for this is that government spending tends to be planned over a number of years ( e.g. hospitals , schools , and other capital expenditures take several years to complete , and governments are reluctant to dismiss teachers , policemen , and other employees for short-term economic reasons ) ; consequently such expenditure tends to be fairly inflexible , especially downwards , in the short run . |
| 27 | Microprogramming was first used on a large scale in the IBM System/360 range of computers , where a common architecture and instruction set had to be implemented on a number of different models the range with widely-varying basic hardware . |
| 28 | Article 11 of the Vienna Convention allows for consent to be bound by a treaty to be expressed in a number of ways including acceptance , approval , and accession . |
| 29 | However , this picture needs to be qualified in a number of ways . |
| 30 | Artificial lift is also expected to be required on a number of producing Gyda wells which are under-performing because of low reservoir pressure . |