Example sentences of "be [verb] [to-vb] a [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that , unless you are going to knit a vast number of buttonholes of the same size , it is much quicker to select the pushers by hand . |
| 2 | Viewers are invited to phone a free number for information on how to help the prisoners . |
| 3 | Such models can be designed to take a large number of factors into account at any one time . |
| 4 | They can only be used to compare a limited number of items and their impact is heightened when there are considerable differences between the items being compared . |
| 5 | In Britain where there has been a continuing decline in the birthrate this century , politicians who talk about the ‘ burden ’ of old age reveal their concern that a smaller working population will be forced to support a growing number of retired people . |
| 6 | Israel , he said , would be allowed to complete a pre-agreed number of houses which were in the process of construction in the occupied territories at the start of 1992 , in exchange for US$300 million in guarantees immediately and the remaining US$9,700 million staggered over six years . |
| 7 | During 1991 they had recruited 109 graduates and were expecting to recruit a similar number in 1992 . |
| 8 | Rough Trade helped KLF 's ‘ 3 AM Eternal ’ obtain a Number One placing the very week the company were forced to make a large number of employees redundant . |
| 9 | This testimonial was given by Edmund Halley [ q.v. ] in a letter written ‘ By the command of the Royal Society ’ in 1693 : ‘ I have , by Order of the Royal Society seen and examined the method used by Mr John Marshall , for grinding glasses , and find that he performs the said work with greater ease and certainty , than hitherto has been practised , by means of an invention , which I take to be his own , and new , and whereby he is enabled to make a great number of Optick-Glasses , at one time , and all exactly alike , which having been reported to the Royal Society , they were pleased to approve thereof , as an Invention of Great Use , and Highly to deserve Incouragement . ’ |
| 10 | However , HARPY 's acoustic-phonetic identification is still not perfect even with the top-down constraint provided by left context , and HARPY is forced to maintain a considerable number of paths through the search graph . |
| 11 | Under International Whale Commission rules , Norway is allowed to kill a limited number of whales " for scientific purposes " . |
| 12 | Oxford City council 's HIV liaison officer is working to combat a growing number of heterosexual infected people in the district , the best prevention she believes is still safe sex . |
| 13 | Er and we 're identifying that the clerical sections are required to do a certain number of things when the project arrives , like erm recording the project in the index book , creating a correspondence file , creating project admin wallets , and the like . |
| 14 | It was intended to provide a large number of alternative words and expressions for subjects , so that advice workers could look for information under terms which were familiar to them and still find the right information . |
| 15 | The wrapping machine was pre-set to wrap a given number of biscuits . |
| 16 | The only aspect of the lessons which I can really remember was having to learn a substantial number of Euclid 's theorems on geometry . |