Example sentences of "number of [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Northern Ireland Electricity has a number of schemes to help you pay for your electricity more easily . |
| 2 | In 1983 , when a much smaller number of students completed IT Advanced Courses , 14 per cent were unemployed at the end of their courses ( 1 ) , a figure which halved in the following six months ( 2 ) . |
| 3 | The reports given can be in a number of formats to help you decide which directory must go . |
| 4 | This was the first time I 'd been into a prison and a number of things struck me during the day . |
| 5 | A large number of sections makes it easier to locate paperwork only if it is correctly filed . |
| 6 | From the number of resonances observed we conclude that d ( TG 4 T ) associates as a tetraplex with fourfold symmetry . |
| 7 | In view of the large number of requests made we are unable to advise you pre-departure if they can not be met . |
| 8 | Now , centuries later , it had decided to invite a number of experts to advise it on cosmology . |
| 9 | Hindu teachings allow abortion only where a pregnancy constitutes a danger to the mother 's life , Islamic law allows abortion up to as late as 120 days and under Jewish law the foetus is regarded as a subsidiary of the mother and abortion is permitted as long as a number of doctors recommend it . |
| 10 | The interim committee , which was established by a resolution of the board of governors in 1974 , has been given more of the responsibilities of the full board since its smaller number of members allows it to work more effectively . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | GP Sandy Jordan , 63 , blasted the hearing as ‘ victimisation ’ after being asked to explain the number of night calls he makes . |
| 13 | Erm that was a bad time er a critical time , they did n't know if he were gon na live or die then erm he 's had a number of transfusions to keep him alive but er he 's stable at the moment . |
| 14 | The nearest whole number of hours Do you take it by that number ? |
| 15 | At this point mail may be sent to a number of users requesting they assess the module . |
| 16 | A number of factors make it a complex task to estimate the degree of success in twenty-five years . |
| 17 | The number of listed companies rose by 428 during the four years , but the number of firms auditing them fell by 39 . |
| 18 | Instead of the usual stonings and demonstrations , a number of Arabs took it upon themselves to launch unprovoked knife attacks on Israeli civilians . |
| 19 | In other words , in a given time , the number of particles leaving the liquid equals the number of particles entering it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Although it was T U C policy for member unions to refuse government money for ballots , a number of unions defied it . |
| 22 | Only a small number of men accompanied him into the forest . |
| 23 | He asked a number of men to tell me what they had seen and found the night before . |
| 24 | Same number of overheads to keep me happy , but you 've got ta write less to keep you happy , there you go . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | Return I do n't quite unders can somebody tell me what each indiv I mean basically I would have expected to see the money earned divided by the , the number of staff telling me how much |
| 27 | A number of staff pressed me to make a second , and longer visit in the future , and this I would certainly like to do . |
| 28 | A number of MPs said they would continue to support Mr Clarke because they were strongly opposed to possible successors from the right wing of the party . |
| 29 | You know we always invite a number of passengers to join us ? ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |