Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [art] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly all these individuals are fully competent native speakers of British English , so they do not actually require Creole for strictly communicative purposes ; for them , Creole fulfils a number of other roles mostly related to its symbolic significance as a marker of black identity . |
| 2 | Labour demand is denoted generally by where N denotes the number of workers demanded , w is the wage rate , and the subscripts are the usual notation for the first and second order derivatives . |
| 3 | The number of particles of a substance can be calculated from either the amount of the substance or the mass of the substance using the following equations : where N denotes the number of particals and L is the Avogadro constant . |
| 4 | The tax base represents the number of workers and taxpayers in the country , and all welfare payments are made from the taxes taken from the employed . |
| 5 | Trial work suggests that the technique has a number of advantages over other forms of injection . |
| 6 | A spectrometer counts the number of carbon-14 ions left after the lighter ions are separated . |
| 7 | Onshore , our Logistics division has a number of partnering contracts both in Great Yarmouth and Aberdeen , whilst our Gas Turbines division is pioneering the concept of total maintenance ( health care ) contracts for critical power pack units , both offshore and onshore . |
| 8 | Many marine mammals ( for example , sperm whales , sealions , and elephant seals ) show a similar difference in size between mature males and females , especially if the dominant male holds a number of mature females , often known as a ‘ harem . ’ |
| 9 | No , I would say that if an independent assessor has been dispatched to this is a good point worth bringing through in the event of erm a disagreement between ourselves and a policy holder , the policy holder has a number of aspects that they can they can approach . |
| 10 | Any computer has a number of input/output or peripheral devices attached to it , both for communication with the outside world ( card readers , line printers , terminals , etc. ) and for augmenting the computer 's information storage capacity ( magnetic discs , magnetic tape , etc . ) . |
| 11 | When a computer has a number of data.types , many operation codes are used up in providing the same arithmetic operation for operands with different formats . |
| 12 | The process of assessment incorporates a number of key elements and involves the assessors ( including users and carers ) in bringing to bear a wide range of observational , communication , interpersonal , cognitive , and analytic skills . |
| 13 | Boots is another major player , both as a retailer and manufacturer , and its own brand holds the number two position with 20% of the market . |
| 14 | This function adds the number of set bits in this part . |
| 15 | In Britain , accent has a number of origins which may be regional , social or ethnic . |
| 16 | There is the important question of which court is likely to produce the fairest result following a trial , and in certain cases a jury trial has a number of important procedural benefits which are more likely to produce a just result . |
| 17 | where R represents the number of correct responses for the right ear/visual field and I stands for the left ear/visual field . |
| 18 | My Department offers a number of grants to farmers that encourage the adoption of environmentally sound practices . |
| 19 | Previous evidence has shown that fluent braille involves a number of subsidiary perceptual , cognitive and manual skills . |
| 20 | This chapter offers a number of critical insights into the introduction of human resource management in schools . |
| 21 | An assertiveness training programme involves a number of stages : first , understanding the underlying principles of the approach ; second , recognizing different styles of communicating ( passive , aggressive , assertive ) , third , identifying specific situations where we would like to be more assertive , whether at work , in public , among friends , or at home ; fourth , to prepare , rehearse , or role play a different , more assertive response ; and fifth , to transfer that behaviour back into the real world . |
| 22 | Each week , my mail contains a number of theories that people have sent me . |
| 23 | ‘ The card has a number of holes in it . |
| 24 | Labour has a number of job creation schemes in its manifesto which , it claims , will slice thousands off the unemployment register . |
| 25 | This term covers a number of causes , ranging from acute infectious illness , mental illness , organic brain failure , or a combination of these ( Marshall , 1988 ; Gearing et al . , |
| 26 | The preoccupation with the study of artefacts in isolation has a number of causes : the need to provide a chronology ; the absence of frameworks of thought by which grave-goods might be considered in the first instance as part of a mortuary ritual ; and , particularly from the nineteenth century , obsession with artefacts . |
| 27 | Fairview New Homes has a number of sites in North East London designed and priced for first-time buyers . |
| 28 | JUST BECAUSE YOUR SEAT HAS A NUMBER DOES N'T MEAN YOU SHOULD BE TREATED LIKE ONE . |
| 29 | The college has a number of resident post-graduate students who are there for periods varying from a year to three years . |
| 30 | The next extract reviews a number of decisions regarding the civil remedies , with particular reference to the Court of Appeal decision in Tagro v Cafane ( 1991 ) 2 AER 235 : |