Example sentences of "the number of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While in particular contexts some readings may well be much more likely than others ( if this were not the case , many utterances would be harder to understand than they are ) , the number of possible readings is clearly limited only by imagination . |
| 2 | In the evolution game , whether the computer version or the real thing , the player ( or observer ) obtains the same feeling of wandering metaphorically through a labyrinth of branching passages , but the number of possible pathways is all but infinite , and the monsters that one encounters are undesigned and unpredictable . |
| 3 | This Darwinian recipe for solving the Travelling Salesman Problem has proved incredibly effective , rapidly finding the shortest routes between scores of towns , where the number of possible routes is so large it could never be written down . |
| 4 | Indeed , the number of possible routes increases exponentially as one explores them . ’ |
| 5 | Thus this choice reaction time can be described by RT = 377 * log2N where N is the number of possible values from which we are required to choose . |
| 6 | Where the task involves a number of choices , i.e. there is a choice reaction time , it has long been recognised that reaction time rose progressively with the number of possible choices , but why and to what extent where not understood . |
| 7 | The first results from the physical exclusion of one polymer segment by another from a hypothetical lattice site which reduces the number of possible conformations available to the chain . |
| 8 | So the number of possible breakdowns between L and P are infinite . |
| 9 | Thus , we have reduced the number of possible breaks in this text to three , so that we can suggest that there are four paragraphs , beginning at sentences 1 , 4 , 10 and 19 . |
| 10 | The researchers warn that they will have to treat many more patients before they can report a cure , and that the expense and difficulty of obtaining bone marrow are likely to limit the number of possible treatments . |
| 11 | This follows from Cantor 's proof showing that the number of possible selections from a given set of objects necessarily exceeds the number of the actual members of that set , irrespective of how many members the set happens to have . |
| 12 | The number of possible elements in a matrix is given by : |
| 13 | If the mutational jump we are considering is a very large one , the number of possible destinations of that jump is astronomically large . |
| 14 | This contrasts the number of possible transitions of each order with the actual number found in the million word LOB corpus . |
| 15 | It is easy to see from this drivechart that the number of possible modes of operation is large , but that the choice facing the teacher at any given moment is among only a few possibilities . |
| 16 | The French writer V A Graicunas devised a formula to show how the number of possible relationships between members of an organisation increases geometrically in proportion to the number of members : where N is the total number of possible relationships and n is the number of members . |
| 17 | By permutations of these various incidents the number of possible classes is limited only by the total number of shares . |
| 18 | If these white units are now connected to other white units , and black to black ( b ) , to form five equal chains of each colour with , then the number of possible arrangements of these chains decreases to about 10 3 . |
| 19 | Knowing word length and word shape is effective in reducing the number of possible words ( Sinha , 1990 ) ; we need to know how useful information about them is when it is only approximate and uncertain . |
| 20 | Such individuals , who would be described as good readers , are able to use the preceding context to reduce the number of possible words which could occur at the end of the sentence , making use of many sources of information and not relying exclusively upon any one source . |
| 21 | As we saw , experiments by Marslen-Wilson and Tyler ( 1980 ) on auditory word recognition showed that a word can be identified more rapidly if it is predictable , that is , if there are syntactic and/or semantic constraints on the number of possible words which might occupy that particular position in a sentence . |
| 22 | In bibliographic applications the number of possible attributes may be many thousands . |
| 23 | In the case of spoken words , context is used to speed up recognition by reducing the number of possible candidates in the cohort . |
| 24 | The context of a bus timetable does increase the number of possible ways the question might be done ; on one occasion when a member of the research team gave the test informally to a class , one pupil said he had found his answer ( several hours ) by adding up the intervals between all of the stops . |
| 25 | The number of possible ways of arranging 20 kinds of thing in chains 146 links long is an inconceivably large number , which Asimov calls the " haemoglobin number " . |
| 26 | The greatest scope for study exists with cremation pottery for , being decorated , it presents a greater number of variables for study , thereby reducing the number of possible interpretations of the patterns produced by analysis . |
| 27 | Since there is a large number of nerves the number of possible combinations and sequences of stimuli is enormous so it is possible for a system like that , in principle , to produce a very large number of possible reactions . |
| 28 | This limits the number of possible combinations such that only a few examples exist in this category . |
| 29 | Thus , very roughly , the cost in both space and time of parsing a sentence containing m independent n -fold syntactic ambiguities is more nearly proportional to m times n than to n m , the number of possible parses . |
| 30 | While little data is presented here it is clear from the few examples given that the ANLT has problems with ‘ real ’ language — the number of possible parses produced and the failure to parse — which would not be solved by additional computational power . |