Example sentences of "number of [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other authors list a larger number of viewpoints but they seem to be relatively minor variants on these three . |
| 2 | In this article , I want to acknowledge openly a number of tensions that I experience , and which I suspect others may recognise . |
| 3 | The number of pages as they are |
| 4 | Thank you Chairman erm I do n't I need to say a great deal because the comments that have been made I think are very thoroughly and expertly covered most of the ground in terms of the the issues that are being raised and can I say that although er a number of Chief Officers , a number of departments and I suspect a number of committees will be looking at what has happened and er seeking in both to find out why it has happened and what might be done in the future erm I certainly recognize that it 's er a role responsibility of this committee and of er me and the Planning Department to consider the implications for strategic planning and for the related functions and that erm it wo n't be a , a , a happy task because er purely it 's something that all of us would have hoped had n't happened at all but I will er very er thoroughly er explore the issues and report it back . |
| 5 | Heclo points to the rapid expansion of the number of groups and their representatives in Washington in the 1970s . |
| 6 | The limbs of different vertebrates such as human , dog , bat , and horse , are variations on a basic theme of an increasing number of elements as one proceeds from shoulder to hand , from the single humerus to the five fingers of the hand . |
| 7 | Now if you do walk around you 'll see that there are quite a number of pallets that you could argue are not well not well packaged on the on the pallet . |
| 8 | I make no apology for the number of committees that we have and I make no apology for the numbers on the committee . |
| 9 | ‘ Ward councillors have received a number of complaints and we will be contacting the Association , asking them to make the builders behave in a responsible manner . ’ |
| 10 | But this premise was there at that time and by oh I had to go to a great extent on a number of visits and they er granted it me on compassionate grounds and there 's er I was only looking in the back of there the other day and there 's one there now . |
| 11 | However , so long as we remain in the Community , Parliament has effectively handed over a number of functions that it has traditionally fulfilled . |
| 12 | Other additions , we did earlier Chair , and that is we have received a mental illness specific grant , erm , on a number of schemes but they have been time limited , and they are due to cease , some of them are due to cease in the coming year . |
| 13 | it 's just the number of boxes that you 're gon na change ! |
| 14 | The world is so full of a number of things that it would be hopeless to try to study every kind of animal or plant . |
| 15 | The difficulty is that the world is so full of a number of things that there are many difficult names to be learnt ; chemistry seems necessarily to involve a rebarbative vocabulary . |
| 16 | The software can load and save the results for a sample , characterised by the number of phrases and their depth and type , set up a continuous dialogue with the operator and update the database for tests in progress . |
| 17 | This appeared to offer a real chance of a final agreement on the most difficult point , until on 18 November Adolf Berle proposed all five freedoms , with an escalator clause allowing an airline to increase its agreed number of flights if its planes were more than 65 per cent full . |
| 18 | This observation is based on the high number of copies that there are of certain fabliaux and the number of variants that there are of others . |
| 19 | Bulb-life is also related to the number of times that they are switched on and off . |
| 20 | Also , the z-axis is invariant under the flow , so any periodic orbits in the system can be partially described by an integer n specifying the number of times that they wind around the z-axis . |
| 21 | For example the number of times that one or other proton has a and the other then has A would be a number that I shall call unc Numbers unc are similarly defined . |
| 22 | Pictures are taken at several ( eight ) different exposure levels and each point is weighted according to the number of times that it is seen . |
| 23 | She did not immediately reply ; her eyes narrowed and her eyelids blinked a number of times before she said , ‘ Yes , I suppose you 're right … and no suppose about it , you are right . |
| 24 | The police had shot the man in the head after he had fired on Police a number of times as they chased him . |
| 25 | I 've heard this film , seen this film quite a number of times and it really is good . |
| 26 | When the DUP was being planned in late 1971 , Desmond Boal kept pushing Unionists such as Austin Ardill to join the new party and received assurances from him and a number of others that they would join . |
| 27 | I can count the number of trout that I have taken from this lovely loch on the fingers of one hand and blank days are the rule , but I keep going back for more . |
| 28 | This is a strip fixed with points on to which you can attach any number of bulbs that you like . |
| 29 | Do too little and no one takes any notice ; do a vast number of papers and you may be accused of superficiality or lack of care . |
| 30 | On the other hand it has to be said that the er publicity for that does not seem to have penetrated very far amongst foreign visitors and there is n't very much evidence that foreign visitors have been put off coming here in spite of the considerable number of incidents that there have been in this country , particularly in London of course in the last year or so . |