Example sentences of "great [art] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Great was the smiting and slaying in short time ; but by reason that the Moors were so great a number , they bore hard upon the Christians , and were in the hour of overcoming them . |
| 2 | Arguably , the greater the number , the greater the priority to be given to the service . |
| 3 | When practising or training , therefore , the greater the number of repetitions the better . |
| 4 | The greater the openness of the boundary , the greater the potential capacity to negotiate across it ; the greater the number of open boundaries , the greater the potential power available to the social actors to promote a dialectical relation with the outside world , to actively influence the processes , policies and events that touch their lives Conversely , the fewer open boundaries there are perceived to be and the more closed , the more powerlessness and passivity is likely to be manifest in relation to the outside world . |
| 5 | One of the laws of the jungle is that the greater the number of groups in the competitive struggle , for each to secure bigger increases than the others , the faster will wages rise . ’ |
| 6 | The greater the number of bits , the smaller the change in analogue input level that can be detected by the device . |
| 7 | And the longer the situation continues and the greater the number of vain attempts at dealing with it , the more stupid they feel . |
| 8 | The system in its most basic form costs around £900 per user — the greater the number of additional modules , the higher the price — and is available through Olivetti 's newly formed Document Management Division , based in Putney , south west London , as well as from some of its partners . |
| 9 | The more dominant the task leader the greater the number of actors who take up maintenance roles to produce social balance . |
| 10 | The other gallery might have an equally complex set of preferences , and the greater the number of works involved , the more complex the preference sets might become . |
| 11 | Man 's cultural development can arise only at the cost of a persisting lack of satisfaction of those sexual impulses which are seen as improper by men and women — the higher the degree of civilization and education , the greater the number of unsatisfied impulses . |
| 12 | He compared the OED with the OALD , CED and W7 and concluded that the OED was the most suitable due to its sheer size ( the greater the number of headwords , the more chance that a particular word will be included ) and because ’ a quick count of several dictionaries indicated that the OED surpassed all others in the number of useful content words in its definitions and quotations ’ . |
| 13 | In general however the greater the number of people entering an area the greater the risk of the introduction of an infection . |
| 14 | The larger the electorate and the greater the number of candidates on a list , the less likely voters are to have this knowledge , and the converse is obviously true . |
| 15 | The greater the number of committees in a company , the fewer the number of PROFITBOSSES . |
| 16 | The greater the number of observations forming the basis of an induction and the greater variety of conditions under which these observations are made , the greater the probability that the resulting generalizations are true . |
| 17 | The greater the number of conjectured theories that are confronted by the realities of the world , and the more speculative those conjectures are , the greater will be the chances of major advances in science . |
| 18 | Confirming instances are such if they give inductive support to a theory , and the greater the number of confirming instances established , the greater the support for the theory and the more likely it is to be true . |
| 19 | The greater the number of lectures you must attend , the tighter and more automatic must be your techniques , or else you will find after a week or two that you have only a mass of undigested scribbles as the poor product of the many lectures you have attended . |
| 20 | The longer a party has a majority in the Commons , the greater the number of local authorities likely to be captured by its opponents . |
| 21 | Measured in dots per inch , the greater the number of dots , the more smoother and cleaner appearance the character/image will have . |
| 22 | In the first case the more accurate diagnosis becomes , the greater the number of employees would be dismissed and this would be exceedingly bad for morale and for industrial relations . |
| 23 | The greater the number of preceding words making up the context , the more specific the syntactic and semantic constraints would be , and thus the greater the number of words that could be eliminated from the target word 's cohort . |
| 24 | The greater the number of preceding words making up the context , the more specific the syntactic and semantic constraints would be , and thus the greater the number of words that could be eliminated from the target word 's cohort . |
| 25 | This suggests that the smaller the mass the greater the number of impacting bodies . |
| 26 | The more general the meaning , the greater the number of contexts needed to cover it ; the more particular the meaning , the fewer the contexts needed . |
| 27 | Thus , the more documents that an indexing system is likely to embrace , the greater the number of index terms that are likely to be necessary for convenient retrieval ( given that the number of documents which constitute a scannable category does not vary ) . |
| 28 | If all input owners have a say in all decisions , decision-making is a costly process : the greater the number of decision-makers , the more resources are used up in sending out the information needed to make the decision ; and the more time is needed , in total , to give each person the opportunity to argue his preferred solution to any problem . |
| 29 | The larger the bureau , the greater the number of specialized tasks , and the greater the potential for conflict and need for co-ordination . |
| 30 | Although the age of the patients did not correlate with their ability to achieve continence after operation , the greater the number of stools , the more often were the patients incontinent . |