Example sentences of "out a number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working with the BRE and with TRADA , he carried out a number of pilot schemes and produced a manual of timber frame design and construction . |
| 2 | They landed agents from submarines and carried out a number of successful demolition raids along the Italian coast . |
| 3 | Warehouses were soon liberally festooned with bombs , and on the way out a number of parked fuel-tanker lorries were attended to . |
| 4 | Pleydell and his small group of medical orderlies carried out a number of quite complicated operations whilst crouching under bushes and being machine-gunned from the air . |
| 5 | In fairness , it must be said that the professions have worked out a number of checks and balances to this system , and a common alternative to a percentage fee , hourly rates , can work out as an even more expensive open cheque drawn on the public purse . |
| 6 | These developments hold great promise for severely disabled people who , although dependent on a machine , can have a feeling of relative independence ; their range of control in communicating and getting an appropriate response is increased and they are less dependent on people to carry out a number of everyday living activities . |
| 7 | A historical study may require documentary and statistical evidence to test out a number of hypotheses . |
| 8 | That is the key paragraph in a paper which logically argued the case for a better budgeting system , and set out a number of principles on which it should be based . |
| 9 | The Institute of Employment Research at Warwick University recently carried out a number of macroeconomic simulations to discover what would happen if Britain installed sufficient microelectronic technology to improve its rate of productivity growth by 1 per cent relative to its competitors . |
| 10 | If these were to be conceded , they would rule out a number of technical options . |
| 11 | It gave a clear hint that the threat could come from either the public or the private sectors , and it set out a number of principles for handling personal information which , as the Younger Principles , have become famous ; they survive in recognisable form in the Schedule of the Data Protection Act of 1984 , where they assume an unusual importance . |
| 12 | In an effort to combat the isolation and fear I felt at the time , I sought out a number of parents in similar situations to my own ; we had to create our own support systems . |
| 13 | The proposed Directive sets out a number of principles that the supervisory authorities are to use as guidelines when discharging their functions and especially when granting exemptions to the rules provided in the proposed Directive . |
| 14 | The organizer calls out a number . |
| 15 | A person is chosen , who spins a plate and calls out a number . |
| 16 | The entertainer calls out a number and one person from each side sits in a chair . |
| 17 | My partner then called out a number of articles and asked if they were the chosen one . |
| 18 | We carried out a number of 50% water changes . |
| 19 | I 'm still playing tricks on the rest of the band by shouting out a number on stage that we have n't rehearsed ! ’ |
| 20 | Agreement in July 1906 , this batch of ten cars was transferred to the new South Metropolitan Company , who over the years carried out a number of modifications on them . |
| 21 | Doyle went to the fireplace and picked out a number of burned pieces of paper . |
| 22 | A spokeswoman for Marks & Spencer said : ‘ We are carrying out a number of initiatives to improve the situation . ’ |
| 23 | He had let out a number of slow deep breaths as if he had got out of a tight corner , but no sooner had he entered the room again than Lizzie said , ‘ Does Maggie know of this ? ’ |
| 24 | Now they are checking out a number of other countries for a spring 1993 visit . |
| 25 | He picks out a number of similarly titled systems : Seeing Essential English ( SEE I ) , Signing Exact English ( SEE II ) , Signed English ( SE ) . |
| 26 | Project English encourages learning through project work : as the pupils work through the projects in the Student 's Book , they gradually build up similar projects of their own by carrying out a number of project tasks . |
| 27 | As students work through the projects in the Student 's Book , they carry out a number of tasks and activities which form the basis for similar projects of their own . |
| 28 | Detective Sergeant Mick Ornellus , of Clacton CID , said the two men either offered or already had carried out a number of jobs for her and tricked her into parting with the money . |
| 29 | Kinlen et al have carried out a number of analyses relating to areas in which there has been increased population mixing and have found an increased incidence of childhood leukaemia in some of these areas . |
| 30 | As illustrated in Figure 1.9 , we can make out a number of levels more basic than this ; the electronic circuits themselves , the logical functions ( such as gates and flipflops ) , and the functional units ( such as adders and registers ) . |