Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier , the paper 's money-spinning 0898 phone number for callers to eavesdrop on the ‘ Dianagate ’ tape was banned . |
| 2 | When knitting a garment in all over pattern , the two facts i always take into account when positioning the N1 cam are firstly , the number of stitches in the pattern and secondly , the number of stitches required for the garment piece . |
| 3 | ‘ He has had a great number of stitches inserted in the eyelid and underneath the eye in an effort to keep it closed and avoid further damage . |
| 4 | Some feel that there is no need to double mark all modules as a large number of examinations contribute to the student 's final award . |
| 5 | Indeed , by April 15 the number of mines affected by the strike nationwide had actually risen to 163 , and at the end of April the strike was still holding in most of those mines . |
| 6 | After the secure unit order was made , there was a brief youth court hearing concerning an unspecified number of offences alleged against the boy . |
| 7 | After the secure unit order was made , there was a youth court hearing concerning a number of offences alleged against the boy . |
| 8 | He 's also been charged with a number of offences relating to the non-payment of taxi-bills . |
| 9 | Alan Milburn blames the record number of offences committed in the town and falling detection rates on the Conservative failure to draft more officers into County Durham and on general Tory policy . |
| 10 | In the country towns the gradual decline in status undergone by the guilds also saw a reduction in the number of trappings provided for the funeral . |
| 11 | Notwithstanding the low number of calls resulting from the campaign I would agree that individual taxpayers appreciated the information point which they could contact to deal with enquiries . |
| 12 | A group of men standing at a bus turn-about opened fire on the patrol and a number of bullets passed through the rear window , narrowly missing a soldier . |
| 13 | The paper dated 15 February 1983 before the works committee which resolved on that date to grant permission , contains a reference to the number of lorries anticipated at the Gillingham Gate daily and under the same heading ‘ Traffic-Safety and Freeflow ’ has a different entry from the one I have referred to . |
| 14 | The presence of the intercalator has also caused a larger number of blockages compared with the more discrete damage caused by the simple complexes . |
| 15 | Stephen O'Neill from Belfast was asked by Munster Simms Engineering in Bangor to reduce the number of cartons used by the company in its 700-strong product range . |
| 16 | Compensation claims amounting to US$400,000,000 for property destroyed and looted during the invasion [ see p. 37706 ] were outstanding against the US government ; estimates of the number of civilians killed during the fighting varied from the official US figure of 220 civilian dead [ see p. 37181 ] through that of 320 ( with 3,000 wounded ) given by a human rights group , Physicians for Human Rights , to one as high as 4,000 dead . |
| 17 | The number of lines refers to the lines of text which fill the screen . |
| 18 | The number of births depends on the number of females of child-bearing age , and the ratio of male to female births may be ( and is normally ) rather greater than 1 : 1 . |
| 19 | As we shall demonstrate in later chapters the word boundary ambiguities present in continuous speech , together with the increased number of homophones produced by the application of phonological rules for variations in pronunciation , relax the lexical constraints to the point where a very large number of paths through the lattice are equally plausible . |
| 20 | In an attempt to extinguish the flames , a number of youths broke into the Space Invaders machine , filled their pockets with an estimated £140 worth of ten pence pieces and hurtled the machine at the blaze . |
| 21 | Kirchhoff reasoned that cooler elements in the outer layers of the Sun would absorb energy according to the same pattern ; and accordingly he identified in the Sun a number of elements found upon the Earth . |
| 22 | The maximum number of offlines specified by the STOREMAN keyword is used as a guide . |
| 23 | The impact of the section has been very broadly based in the city , and for the first time we 've added for you in very brief terms , a Domiciliary Health information of just the total number of visits made by the city health care , erm and the level of work in terms of notices served , and prosecutions , note , going up in most of the sections , particularly their units they 're small numbers , but they are significant , just the same , and the table on the top of page forty-four , erm as I said earlier , I think we reached the highest level of insect complaints in the summer that we 've ever had to deal with , it 's very usual for us to deal with a thousand , over in the summer period , this time we dealt with sixteen hundred . |
| 24 | This makes it possible to calculate the number of visits performed within the previously claimable hours of 2300 to 0700 and comparisons can therefore be made with historical numbers of claims for night visits and with earlier published research . |
| 25 | The number of inches lost from the various areas varied enormously , as did the weight losses . |
| 26 | Yet how can a certain number of equations account for the complexity and trivial detail that we see around us ? |
| 27 | The number of conveniences required to be provided varies according to the number of persons employed in the building ( Sanitary Accommodation Regulations 1938 ( SI No 611 ) ; Sanitary Conveniences Regulations 1964 ( SI No 966 ) The Workplace ( Health , Safety and Welfare ) Regulations 1992 ( SI No 3004 ) ) . |
| 28 | While the politicians were pre-occupied with the death penalty and corporal punishment in the late 1950s and early 1960s , the civil servants were paddling in the mainstream , adjusting to the implications of the increased volume of crime and trying to get a grip on what was to become a perennial problem for the next quarter century , the growth in the number of persons appearing before the courts charged with criminal offences . |
| 29 | Where the price varies depending on the number of persons booked into the accommodation and you wish to change that number of persons , the price will be recharged on the basis of the new party size as shown in the price panel . |
| 30 | The League is anxious to protect its lucrative link-up with the pools ' companies and the growing number of teams moving from the normal Saturday date has seen the day 's fixture list shrunk . |