Example sentences of "[verb] the largest number " in BNC.
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| 1 | For those universities producing the largest numbers of theses , it was considered that personal visits to their libraries for examination of the consultation records was desirable , so as also to study storage conditions , ease of access , and to discuss regulations on access , loan , and copying with the relevant library staff . |
| 2 | Voters in these constituencies would choose between whichever two candidates had won the largest numbers of votes in the first round . |
| 3 | Chatichai Choonhaven [ see p. 39007 ] , drawing its support largely from Chart Thai ( Chatichai 's old party ) and from Sammakkhi Tham , the air force 's protégé party which had won the largest number of seats ( 79 ) in the March election , but disintegrated with the collapse of the Suchinda government . |
| 4 | The Polytechnic 's case for retaining teacher education was based on four main arguments : that it was the only public sector institution of higher education in the Principality which provided the full integration of teacher education with the remainder of the higher education system ; that the proposals would leave the largest education authority in Wales employing the largest number of teachers , without involvement in teacher education ; that the Polytechnic had already stopped recruiting for the Certificate of Education course , in line with the DES policy of seeking an all-graduate profession , and in September 1976 had attracted the largest number of teacher-training students with a minimum of two GCE A levels in the Principality ; and that the Polytechnic was being called upon to make a disproportionate sacrifice because it would have to drop its Dip.HE/BEd. programme which was a basic component of a newly developed integrated system of degree courses . |
| 5 | The Polytechnic 's case for retaining teacher education was based on four main arguments : that it was the only public sector institution of higher education in the Principality which provided the full integration of teacher education with the remainder of the higher education system ; that the proposals would leave the largest education authority in Wales employing the largest number of teachers , without involvement in teacher education ; that the Polytechnic had already stopped recruiting for the Certificate of Education course , in line with the DES policy of seeking an all-graduate profession , and in September 1976 had attracted the largest number of teacher-training students with a minimum of two GCE A levels in the Principality ; and that the Polytechnic was being called upon to make a disproportionate sacrifice because it would have to drop its Dip.HE/BEd. programme which was a basic component of a newly developed integrated system of degree courses . |
| 6 | Even if the Tories lose their overall majority , Mr Major is almost certain to seek to form a minority Government if he has the largest number of seats . |
| 7 | Of all British cities Glasgow has the largest number of council flats in high blocks : 33,600 in blocks of five or more storeys ( almost twice the total of its nearest challenger , Birmingham ) , the majority resulting from a compressed ‘ burst ’ of construction in the 1960s . |
| 8 | It also has the largest number of overseas companies listed . |
| 9 | Which country has the largest number of people employed in manufacturing ? |
| 10 | Write a program , using the instruction set given in Figure 1.5 , to find the largest number and put it in location 150 . |
| 11 | These were purchased on price and availability , to provide the largest number of users with a standard machine for basic word-processing , which had been identified as the major requirement for Garden users . |
| 12 | The block plans were thoroughly examined in the press , and although this part of the competition attracted the largest number of entrants , it had the least bearing on the final outcome . |
| 13 | Ayr , Irvine and Kilmarnock Academies could each lay claim to having had the largest number of scholars who went on to great things but , before these grander seats of learning were established , several small , seemingly totally inadequate schools had produced a succession of men of whom the county can be proud . |
| 14 | KPMG Peat Marwick audited the largest number of private limited companies ( 213 ) , followed by Coopers & Lybrand ( 164 ) , Touche Ross ( 141 ) and Ernst & Young ( 140 ) . |
| 15 | As stipulated in the Constitution , President Zhelyu Zhelev on Nov. 12 invited caretaker Prime Minister and UDF leader Filip Dimitrov , as leader of the grouping holding the largest number of seats in the National Assembly , to form a new government within seven days . |
| 16 | Earlier in the day , while looking for the swimming-pool , I had found myself in a park containing the largest number of fire-engines I had ever seen . |
| 17 | 3 They question the extent to which the system provides for representative governments noting not just the underrepresentation of third parties , but the fact that , in the elections of 1929 , 1951 , and February 1974 , the party which returned the largest number of MPs actually had a smaller share of the vote than the runner-up party in the Commons so that the electoral " winner " was , in fact , the governmental " loser " . |
| 18 | When they appeared in the dock they constituted the largest number of people ever to appear stark naked in a court room . |
| 19 | Whilst animal by-product and chemical plants were responsible for the most complaints , odours from manure spreading and intensive pig and poultry farms affected the largest number of local authorities as shown in Table 2 below . |
| 20 | It was suggested that the number of voting peers should be about 230 , that the Government of the day should always have the largest number of peers but not an absolute majority . |
| 21 | Benazir Bhutto , leader of the Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) which had gained the largest number of seats in elections to the National Assembly held on Nov. 16 , 1988 ( see pp. 36347-48 ) , was sworn in as Prime Minister on Dec. 2 , and a new federal Cabinet was appointed on Dec. 4 . |
| 22 | I think it 's special to have the largest number of bells of all churches in Oxford . |
| 23 | Finding the largest numbers of drug users in our largest cities and towns does not necessarily imply that they have proportionately more drug users than smaller communities . |
| 24 | Under him are five deputy prime ministers , representing the CVP , which won the largest number of seats , but no majority , the Francophone Socialist Party ( PS ) , the Flemish Socialist Party ( SP ) , the Francophone Christian Social Party ( PSC ) and the Flemish People 's Union ( VU ) . |
| 25 | British Airways , fielding the most competitors , won the largest number of medals with 138 , but E&Y won its division ( according to team size ) and Price Waterhouse came third in its division . |
| 26 | The Communist Party came third with 14 per cent of the vote , but won the largest number ( 24 per cent ) of mayorships . |
| 27 | On Dec. 2 Benazir Bhutto , leader of the Pakistan People 's Party which won the largest number of seats in the National Assembly , was appointed Prime Minister of a new civilian government . |
| 28 | He said the largest number of such cases were burglaries and car thefts , with the same group of people committing the same type of offence ‘ again and again . ’ |
| 29 | The party receiving the largest number of votes ( since 1947 the Colorado Party — Partido Colorado ) is allotted two-thirds of the seats in both Houses of Congress , the remaining seats being divided among the minority parties in proportion to their electoral strength . |
| 30 | The party receiving the largest number of votes is allotted two-thirds of the seats in both houses , with the remaining seats being divided among other parties according to their electoral strength . |