Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] the number " in BNC.
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| 1 | At most , five people per thousand contract leprosy , so hundreds of thousands must be vaccinated to reduce significantly the number of cases . |
| 2 | The computer can be programmed to display immediately the number of nuclei that are abnormally stained . |
| 3 | Nor can it be used to quantify fully the number of temporary jobs in the economy . |
| 4 | Murrie suggested Attlee should be encouraged to scrutinize carefully the number of committees being created and to circulate a memorandum discouraging ministers from raising questions unnecessarily . |
| 5 | Students may by now feel competent to generalise , and they should be encouraged to write down the number of patterns in a 4 × 2 grid , and test their answer by drawing . |