Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's no limit on the number of cheques you can issue , but do make sure you have enough money in you account to cover them . |
| 2 | There are consequently variations in the quality and availability of reading material in school and out and in the number of teachers who can speak the language and teach in it . |
| 3 | There are a number of activities you could record . |
| 4 | Just as the impact of the SEA may have a series of implications for the spatial distribution of economic activity and prosperity within the EC , monetary union may also impart a number of effects which will modify regional fortunes . |
| 5 | In deciding the number of offences which should constitute ‘ repeated infringement ’ the referee should always apply a strict standard in representative and senior matches . |
| 6 | And there 's no limit on the number of calls you can make in any one year . |
| 7 | In his statement on public expenditure — in part , this refutes what the hon. Member for Fife , Central said — my right hon. Friend the Chancellor announced increased programmes in a number of Departments which will provide substantial work for the industry . |
| 8 | It is clear that among the more prosperous merchants in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries there was the first beginning of a tendency towards specialization , in types of goods carried and markets exploited ; but growing trade , freer movements of peoples , no doubt enhanced the number of folk who could earn a few pennies peddling or carting . |
| 9 | There are a number of routes you could take if you want to work in a job where you 'll be looking after the countryside . |
| 10 | The greater the number of lectures you must attend , the tighter and more automatic must be your techniques , or else you will find after a week or two that you have only a mass of undigested scribbles as the poor product of the many lectures you have attended . |
| 11 | So we either , in terms of number of institutions I would think we probably count it as an F E institution , because this the A level is , is much smaller than the other F E. But in terms of F E students and sixth form students , what I would want to do is count the A level students as sixth form students . |
| 12 | The first defines a large number of elements which may appear in any kind of document — coinciding more or less with that set of discipline-independent textual features concerning which consensus has been reached . |
| 13 | It was recognised by the defendants that when the employment of an agent came to an end it was likely that there would be in existence a number of policies which would have been effected during the period of the plaintiff 's employment in respect of which commission would normally be paid in future years if the employment had continued . |
| 14 | The grounds upon which the powers to impose conditions may be exercised are very similar to those which are available in relation to processions ; section 14 provides that if the senior police officer believes that a public assembly may result in serious public disorder , serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community , or that the purposes of the persons organising it is to intimidate others with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do , he may impose conditions as to the place of the assembly , its maximum duration or the maximum number of persons who may constitute it as may appear to him necessary to prevent the disorder , damage , disruption or intimidation . |
| 15 | It would appear that he can do so , since section 14(1) provides that he may impose without apparent qualification limits on ‘ the maximum number of persons who may constitute it . ’ |
| 16 | Selection of a suitable topic for investigation out of a set of possibilities can be made through the application of a number of criteria which can act as a useful screen for filtering out unsuitable topics . |
| 17 | Instead he had called in the deputy inspector and regional engineers for provisional evaluations of a number of schemes which could have been affected . |
| 18 | This allows the user to list a number of programs which will fill up a complete disk , or more than one disk . |
| 19 | Table 2.2 links the number of students who could have achieved a degree award by the summer of 1987 with the number of awards actually made . |
| 20 | Lewis Gunn provided civil servants with a number of conditions which would have to be satisfied if perfect implementation of policies were to be achieved ( Hogwood and Gunn , 1984 , pp. 198–206 ; see also Hood , 1976 ) . |
| 21 | The coverage or covering capacity of an item is the number of things one can say with it . |
| 22 | Being an excitable sort of race there is an incredible number of things we would like to show you . |
| 23 | There are a number of things we can do to try to prevent these problems : |
| 24 | But another thing to be shown how to do it and that 's what , really what we want to try and do for the rest of the talk is to not just keep preaching at you and telling you what to do , but to show you how , so that 's the purpose of the talk from now on , now in this outline there are , I 've got about fourteen different points here and it 'll highlight ways in which we can er stay awake , what I 'm going to do is to read straight through them and then we 'll go back and pick a couple out , because it 's impossible to concentrate on the entire er amount , so we 'll do that , it 's er a number of things we can do to keep virtually awake keep up with the food at the proper time from Jehovah 's organizations that 's studying and things like that is n't it ? |
| 25 | At that time there will be a number of things we will disclose to clarify how USL will be structured to assure the continuation of a business model that provides vendor-neutrality and equal access to the Unix Operating System , as well as other technologies . |
| 26 | All this has been , so to speak , a mere preliminary to the central act of a murder story , the murder , and there are a number of things we should consider about this murder and the murderer . |
| 27 | However , there are a number of things you can do at home to keep the coat healthy and to minimise your trips to the salon . |
| 28 | I think it 's the diversity really , the number of things you can do in it [ that appeals ] . |
| 29 | ‘ If the answer is no then there are still a number of things you can do to make your workstation more comfortable . ’ |
| 30 | Blake was not averse to entering such places , but could think of a number of things he 'd prefer to do at this time . |