Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [art] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the night the police sealed off the hospital so that no one might know precisely who was wounded or the number of casualties . |
| 2 | Fee estimate : It is difficult to estimate the time involvement or costs of this category of work as this is a function of the number of funding sources approached and the number of meetings required . |
| 3 | Facts about woman 's access to contraception and the annual death toll of illegal abortion ; about the number of children they want and the number they lose to malnutrition and disease ; facts about rape , incest and infibulation . |
| 4 | This piece of verbal jugglery was invented as a ready response to the increasingly common question as to why after so many billions and so many decades of effort by the experts and the international development set , the gap between the rich and poor was widening and the number of destitute people had increased to nearly a billion . |
| 5 | The protesters scattered and a number , estimated by the National Union of Students at over 100 , were injured . |
| 6 | Anyhow the bridge collapsed and a number were drowned , including I believe , one of Great-Grandmother 's sons , Thomas Tallentire . |
| 7 | The point I 'd like to make is that we 're here representing and a number of the parish councils in the Selby area . |
| 8 | Tauchen and Pitts ( 1983 ) developed a model in which average daily volume and the variance of daily price changes are positive functions of the daily flow of information , the extent to which traders disagree and the number of traders . |
| 9 | Smoking was permitted but the number and timing of cigaretteswere noted on a diary sheet and had to be similar on all study days . |
| 10 | Happily , Paddington still stands but a number of other great London stations are under threat and the list of great British stations to have bitten the dust is already too long . |
| 11 | It was expected that as the level of processing deepened , the reaction time required to answer and the number of words recognised would increase . |
| 12 | Moreover , English interest in saints , like that of the French , seems to have been particularly intense in the second half of the tenth century and early decades of the eleventh , when many saints ' lives were written and a number of relics were transferred to new shrines . |
| 13 | Your Import Licence should be dated and the number of fish you have with you needs to be noted . |
| 14 | The real fire-fight developed over the stricken Mowhawk which was hit several times and her captain R. F. Jolly , R. N. was fatally injured and a number of his crew killed . |
| 15 | In the singulative mode there is a balance between the number of times an event occurs and the number of times it is narrated ( an event occurring once is narrated once and an event occurring x times is narrated x times ) . |
| 16 | Considerable progress has been made but a number of fundamental issues are still with us . |
| 17 | PR 's sole concern is with the relationship between the number of votes each party has received and the number of seats it has been awarded . |
| 18 | The vehicle had been stolen and recovered and the number plates have been . |
| 19 | All the seats were filled and a number of people were standing by the door . |
| 20 | Once in the polling booth , the voter is faced with a daunting array of candidates : given the number of offices to be filled and the number of people seeking to fill them , the number of names may be a three-figure one . |
| 21 | At the present time , the development stage of the " persons " system has been completed and a number of reports and listings are produced for each location ; these include : strength return ( report ) nominal roll ( listing ) retirement lists ( listing ) etc The number of regular reports has deliberately been kept to a minimum to prevent managers from being besieged with information . |
| 22 | Through the six months of Alberta 's bitter winter each lady tried to outdo the other in the number of coffee parties given and the number of charitable offices each managed to obtain . |
| 23 | This shows that the number of farms has fallen by 14% ; the number in the smaller size bracket generally ( under 30 hectares ) has fallen and the number in the larger size brackets risen . |
| 24 | The Ministers of Rural Development , Yao Pali Tchalla , and of Equipment , Posts and Telecommunications , Nassirou Ayeva , were dismissed and the number of portfolios increased from 16 to 19 . |
| 25 | The need for the recommendation of a high-ranking scholar provided a control on the quality of the intake-as long , of course , as the scholar were reasonably honest-while the quantity could be controlled by altering a number of factors , for example , the period at which the regular investiture took place , the number of ceremonial occasions on which special investitures might occur or the number of students the holder of any given office might invest as Interesting , though extremely belated , attempts to control both the quality and the quantity of are represented by two decrees of the year 1715 , by which time the system had very nearly completely broken down . |
| 26 | Where the system falls down , of course , is when someone changes their mind about the typeface that 's going to be used or the number of columns per page . |
| 27 | There is no limit on the number of volume sets which may be defined for a particular installation , as the number produced depends on the number of charge codes for which modules are to be hard copied and the number of modules to be hard copied for those charge codes . |
| 28 | Charges vary considerably according to the type of plan you select and the number of different investments you hold within it . |
| 29 | This entailed the loss of about 3,000 posts with some universities shedding 25 per cent of their staff ; some departments were closed and a number of institutions came close to bankruptcy . |
| 30 | But as it grows and the number of people and ideas becomes large , even in an idea-stimulating culture and climate such as this one , a more formal procedure seems required to take care of the creative potential of the employees . |