Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] a [adj] number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These ideas could either be expressed by four simple sentences ( each containing one piece of information ) , or by a smaller number of complex sentences ( each containing two , three or four pieces of information ) . |
| 2 | Pictures are obvious examples of iconic signs ; individual words , on the other hand , are generally symbolic signs , except for a limited number of cases such as those of onomatopoeia . |
| 3 | We are one of about three hundred Amnesty groups in the country , probably about this size , perhaps , well were , were , I mean this , this group is probably about an average for the , you know , the groups in the country , some are smaller , some are much larger , but er , usually it 's about a dozen or so people meeting once a month or , or that often in a room , erm , but apart from groups there are a l there are a great many more people who are called individual members of Amnesty about eighty thousand I think now who are , who just joined by writing to headquarters and many of those have no contact with the groups at all , we 've had list of the people in this area and they run into hundred and fifty , two hundred people who live in this area who er , who belong , who , who belong to Amnesty but do n't actually come to a group except for a small number of us . |
| 4 | The patterns of referral to our laboratory were similar to those experienced elsewhere , except for a significant number of rheumatology patients , with 11.2% of all patients referred for assessment of suspected connective tissue disease . |
| 5 | What is increasingly clear is that for a large number of headhunters in the major eight firms — and many of the more profitable smaller ones — this functional or industry specialisation is a key to success . |
| 6 | The aim was that as a greater number of the population became eligible for national insurance benefits , fewer people would be dependent on the safety net of national assistance to provide them with a minimum income . |
| 7 | It follows that after a moderate number of trials the amount of latent inhibition accruing to S1 when presented as part of the serial compound S1-S2 is likely to be less than that produced by training with S1 alone . |
| 8 | Under the criminal law , he argues , a victim can not , except in a limited number of quite specific circumstances , consent to the commission of an offence against themselves . |
| 9 | Yet the data described by the survey of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute mentioned above show that in a significant number of cases such patterns of personal development are no longer occurring . |
| 10 | There was , however , disturbing evidence that in a large number of cases — almost half — the teaching of a foreign language was not included in the programme open to all . |
| 11 | It is accepted that in a large number of cases , we are involved with a seriously ill or injured claimant , where an urgent decision is required . |
| 12 | It is accepted that in a large number of cases , we are involved with a seriously ill or injured claimant , where an urgent decision is required . |
| 13 | And although my initial work was with the individual child , I found that in a large number of cases , the parental interest was of a high order and , and the children 's willingness to involve parents in their behavioural difficulties was also of a high order , so I found myself working not just within the school , not just with the child , but in a parent-child situation . |
| 14 | Also coupled with the censure of excommunication was the imposing of an interdict , a sentence that forbade the celebration of the sacraments except to a limited number of religious communities . |
| 15 | He also promised to continue his programme of political and economic restructuring , which included the streamlining of the public service and the sale of government assets and of a selected number of state-owned companies . |
| 16 | In this paper we trace the main contributions to the debate and then present the results from a first attempt , with one client group ( the elderly ) and with a small number of teams ( four ) , to pin-point differential outcomes amongst the most prominent models of area team organization . |
| 17 | Although not randomised and with a small number of histopathologically confirmed cases , we believe , that the large number of patients in our study successfully managed by injection treatment alone favours a primary encoscopic approach towards Dieulafoy 's disease . |
| 18 | The difficulty , then , with all the cases I have discussed — and with a large number of other disputes of a like kind — is that each side argues past the other by assuming the truth of what has to be proved . |
| 19 | Four albums later and with a growing number of awards to her daughter 's credit , mother Safiqua is reconciled to Najma 's career . |
| 20 | Many thousands , both soldiers and civilians hopelessly intermingled , and including a large number of women and children , began to move down the road carrying with them all their personal belongings on horses , carts and cycles . |
| 21 | Sterile equipment is available from needle exchange schemes and from a growing number of high street pharmacies ( these exchange schemes are supported by the Government ) . |
| 22 | The central problem is that it is only ever possible to sample a child 's language over a fixed period of time and within a finite number of situations . |
| 23 | A second point to be noted in this , and in a large number of other conversational fragments , is that personal topics are frequently introduced through first person reference in one form or another . |
| 24 | In fact , only a minority of the children were returned to their parents and in a large number of cases suspected abuse was subsequently confirmed . |
| 25 | However , in the major publicly quoted firms and in a growing number of the smaller firms , there is a high level of understanding and increased professionalism . |
| 26 | Thus for much of the period after 1760 , canals were important in some areas and over a small number of major routes . |
| 27 | Resources were limited , and any conclusions must be tentative , but there was evidence of cyclical variations in the energies being monitored and on a significant number of occasions the values detected inside and outside the circle differed dramatically . |
| 28 | The Bank also acts as banker to overseas central banks , as well as to international organizations and to a small number of other institutions , companies and private individuals . |
| 29 | In his key he differentiates them on the number of arm spines and suggested that A. grandis could be separated from A. otteri by its ridged proximal ventral arm plates and by a lower number of arm spines . |
| 30 | A LC TV picture is made up , not of scan lines as on present TV pictures , but of a large number of picture elements or pixels . |