Example sentences of "number of [noun pl] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cast on the usual number of stitches to form a test piece and work a few rows of stocking stitch ending with the carriage at the right . |
| 2 | Put a number of dashes to represent the number of letters in the word . |
| 3 | All courses offer the possibility for a number of students to undertake a year 's supervised work experience between the second and final year of the undergraduate programmes . |
| 4 | But [ laakin ] I made the decision of taking the risk , against the advice of a large number of friends to avoid the dangers involved . |
| 5 | As evidence of the difficulty of eschewing individualism he criticises a number of attempts to elaborate a conception of the state as the tool of the ruling class which are individualist . |
| 6 | The year also saw a fair number of attempts to stimulate the UK market — introductory offers of 50% discount ( OUP ) , money-off vouchers ( LTP ) and extra discount ( CUP ) . |
| 7 | There were therefore a number of attempts to avoid the conclusion that there had been a big bang . |
| 8 | Over the past couple of years , Waverley Borough Council have been considering a number of plans to redevelop the area and it was recently decided that because of the state of the building it should be demolished . |
| 9 | Well , unless people have specific to Katherine , as I say it 's presented in such a way , this report , that essentially we 're asked to agree the number of permits to match the number of applications . |
| 10 | In 1936 the National Executive Committee rejected a number of proposals to change the party Constitution , most of them inspired by the Constituency Party Association.25 After the Edinburgh Conference , in November 1936 , a Constituency Party Association conference was held in London at which representatives of local Labour parties supported the demand that they should be free to elect the Constituency representatives on the National Executive without the unions being involved . |
| 11 | A number of moves to liberalize the economy were announced in the wake of Mengistu 's March speech on the introduction of a mixed economy . |
| 12 | There are just about the right number of ladies to infuriate the right-thinking and to make effective use of primary colours as highlight and contrast ; Kate Hoey in lime , Gillian Shephard in vivid egg custard , Alice Mahon in a fetching cerise , Glenda Jackson in a decent , sombre , high-necked red , Margaret Beckett , that oldtime leftist , even had a floor-cross royal blue . |
| 13 | You can work out the column width by multiplying the point size you want to use by two or the lowercase alphabet length by 1.5 to give the number of picas to set the text across . |
| 14 | The computer salesperson will have a number of systems to suit the needs and resources of different customers . |
| 15 | In her private life material from conference lectures is combined with the pop-culture mythology of advertisements , phrase-book dialogues , and other public texts in a number of languages to generate a network of images that is in turn linked to semi-conscious obsessions and childhood memories . |
| 16 | The attraction of connectionism for the present problem is that understanding is based upon continuously checking what is read against background knowledge , using a large number of constraints to guide the process . |
| 17 | William Dement conducted a number of experiments to establish the extent to which subjects lost track of time during REM sleep , in association with Nathaniel Kleitman and Edward Wolpert . |
| 18 | A spokeswoman for Marks & Spencer said : ‘ We are carrying out a number of initiatives to improve the situation . ’ |
| 19 | The Government have taken a number of steps to promote the provision of affordable homes for exactly the people whom the hon. Gentleman mentions . |
| 20 | 1 Although the politics of patronage lingered on , it was no longer possible for a small number of landowners to control the composition of the House of Commons , and the new independence this gave the Commons also reduced the controlling power of the King . |
| 21 | Churchill said he was planning to bring together a large number of organisations to form a delegation to press the DSS to review the restriction . |
| 22 | Recent economic pressures have forced an increasing number of organisations to reassess the way they work , simplifying complex business processes to reduce costs and improve efficiency and quality . |
| 23 | Workers in a place like Spiralynx can only be organised if there is an explosion of anger and discontent inside the factory strong enough for a large number of workers to take a stand , at the risk of losing their own jobs . |
| 24 | There are a number of ways to leave a program loop which do not conflict with the need to write tidy program structures . |
| 25 | There are a number of ways to get a game abandoned , although streaking across the pitch in only your underpants , as I did at Lake Town last season , is perhaps not the best . |
| 26 | At Snape Maltings Concert Hall , they have a ‘ Celebration of Schools Music ’ week , when they ask a number of schools to produce a band or orchestra , or anything musical for their concerts . |
| 27 | The poll early next year would elect a coalition government made up of all the parties winning more than a minimum number of seats to lead the country to majority rule in the year 2000 . |
| 28 | I relate this because some ten years after the conflict , that is to say when the wounds of bereavement had only superficially healed , my father was called into Mr John Silvers 's study to be told that this very same personage — I will call him simply ‘ the General ’ — was due to visit for a number of days to attend a house party , during which my father 's employer hoped to lay the foundations of a lucrative business transaction . |
| 29 | On the taxation of relocation expenses , a statutory formula will now convert any of the new £8,000 exemption of removal expenses and benefits from tax that is unused into a number of days to reduce the period for which the tax charge on low or no-interest bridging loans is made . |
| 30 | Allowing for the fact that not every man would hear the call , and that the laird would wish to leave a number of men to guard the place , he then bumped up the arithmetic to suppose nine hundred inhabitants . |