Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This exploding complexity of larger and larger units must impose some limitations on the capabilities of management , ie the span of control is limited by the number of inter-relationships that one person can manage . |
| 2 | Through theoretical inquiries into how cultural constructions are made , it became increasingly obvious to those working across a number of disciplines that historical events were no longer simply things that happened . |
| 3 | The subject of obsolescence has generated a considerable amount of literature , most of it based on citation studies — that is , studies showing the number of times that individual books or periodical articles are cited in the lists of references given at the end of a piece of research ( a method , it can be seen , which is distinct from studies of actual library use ) . |
| 4 | In industry the purpose of this process is to make work more interesting , through the restructuring of the components of a work role — either by increasing the number of operations that each worker has to perform or by making changes from one activity to another more frequent . |
| 5 | WHO would have thought , back in 1980 , that we would now be reading in the popular railway magazines a number of reports that British Rail 's Provincial sector possesses some routes which are promising to become profitable ? |
| 6 | Even your supporters are becoming alarmed by the destabilising effect of general practitioner fundholding , as you top slice cash from the central reserve and ensure that it can be spent only on the limited number of services that general practitioners are allowed to purchase directly . |
| 7 | This is the average number of hours that each worker is willing to supply over a given time period . |
| 8 | It was pointed out by a number of respondents that some lenders already include requirements of this kind in their instructions to solicitors . |
| 9 | In the first place , it is founded on a number of assumptions that many holists would reject . |
| 10 | There is no restriction on the number of applications that these people may attest . |
| 11 | There are a number of ways that Public Relations [ regional/national ] can follow up suggestions made in the report ; or that suggestions , if implemented , could offer good public relations . |
| 12 | Section head — the number of occasions that fraudulent claims are made , ie indicators of honesty or dishonesty . |