Example sentences of "number [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There are any number of young girls you can marry if you wanted to — I mean properly , not as a farrago of the real thing . ’ |
| 2 | There are a number of practical things they can do , however : for a few hundred pounds , they can act as facilitators , helping their employees sort out their child-care problems . ’ |
| 3 | On the other hand , if you have had a number of unsuccessful taxations it may be that your draftsman is being too optimistic , especially if payment is on the basis of a percentage of the costs as drawn — If you want to test out your costs draftsman , having received a bill back , send the file off to someone else and see how they draw it . |
| 4 | A firm going it alone will be restricted in the number of other firms it can approach without the news that it is looking to merge leaking out . |
| 5 | There are a large number of other methods we could examine . |
| 6 | The development officers felt that 50 would be about the maximum number of new cases they could take on over a 12 month period . |
| 7 | Tenderness and a tingling sensation may be one of the first signs of pregnancy and there will be an increase in the number of superficial veins you can see . |
| 8 | P.S. There 's no limit to the number of free films you can receive . |
| 9 | I 've got a feeling for the number of empty sites they must have hammered the rents or the rates or something . |
| 10 | Mention the word ‘ reincarnation ’ to any group of people and you will probably be astounded at the number of different reactions you will get . |
| 11 | Thus , when it is intended to export a product to a number of different countries it may , and often will be , necessary to carry out separate tests at several different conditions of temperature and humidity . |
| 12 | When Izzie came out , hearing voices , she found them drawing tally marks in the dust , counting up the number of different roles they could play between them . |
| 13 | As an advocate of the STV has observed , if an MP is " forced by the system to spend his working hours worrying about the number of first-preference votes he will get at the next election , and many of his sleeping hours dreaming about them , he or she will work harder than ever for constituents ' " |
| 14 | Right from the very start it will help if you can decide at least on the number of main meals you will have each day and on the number of snacks , if any . |
| 15 | For example , the number of unconnected words we can hold in immediate memory is about the same as the number of unrelated digits , even though a word contains much more information than a digit . |
| 16 | They ‘ vastly under-estimated ’ the number of pre-sentence reports they would have to write , but although busy , they are coping , she says . |
| 17 | You can score points for the number of ceramic divisions you can move the butt over ( with extra for actually getting it down the hole and extra for doing it from the far end of the gutter from the hole ) , for the amount of destruction caused — apparently it 's very hard to get the little black cone at the burned end to disintegrate — and , over the course of the evening , the number of fag-ends so dispatched . |
| 18 | When you have analysed a number of completed questionnaires you will probably discover that the most influential factor in introducing people to your church is the personal invitation of a friend . |
| 19 | The number of these creatures you can keep together will depend on the size of your aquarium . |