Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [art] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the NRA , the net present value of the damage that would be caused by flooding , and hence the benefit accruing , has been calculated using a number of variables , and generally lies between £41 million and £69 million . |
| 2 | In contrast , Copenhagen states : ‘ Governments should consider limiting eligibility for IVF to women of 40 years of age or under ’ ; ‘ Governments should consider limiting the number of IVF treatment cycles per woman ’ ; and ‘ All clinics should … 0 limit the number of eggs or embryos transferred during an IVF treatment cycle to no more than three ’ . |
| 3 | The former can easily be caricatured as humourless puritans who object to games which involve guessing the number of beans in a jar at the church fete . |
| 4 | She will also consider pruning the number of royals who receive tax-payers ' support — and paying tax on her private income . |
| 5 | The complete task involved lifting a number of panels from their storage racks , loading them on to a jig , clamping them into position , arc welding a seam to join them , and then transferring the welded sub-assembly from the jig to another storage rack so that it could be transported to the next production stage . |
| 6 | This can be done using a number of different comparisons : |
| 7 | Now if you violate any of the assumptions ordinary squares , right , then the procedure will produce or may produce misleading results , we can only be confident in statistical terms about ordinary leased squares parameters , right , because we know and show in theory that they hold providing a number of assumptions are met , like you have serially uncorrelated errors , right , we do n't have m multi co-linearity amongst the regresses , right , we have constant variance throughout the sample now if any of those er assumptions are breached , violated then our , any statistical results that are generated from erm the technique that assumes that those assumptions have n't been breached erm are invalidated and we can get very misleading er parameter estimates , right , in the presence of auto correlation or multi-linearity erm . |
| 8 | The reorganization comprised cutting the number of staff based in Moscow from 5,000 to 2,700 ; renaming the Ministry as the Ministry of External Relations , and transferring to it some of the functions of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations , which was to be abolished [ see above ] . |
| 9 | In three years around 180 dogs and bitches have been neutered reducing the number of complaints . |
| 10 | It should be noted that the study just described did not focus especially on schizophrenia , the kinds of mental illness observed in the individuals surveyed covering a number of diagnostic categories , albeit mostly ones related in one or another to psychosis and probably reflecting a similar underlying disposition . |
| 11 | It is now likely that a student will experience ballooning a number of times while learning and will have learned to avoid moving forwards on the stick automatically . |
| 12 | The association has avoided naming the number of councils it considers to be feasible . |
| 13 | The idea that one can adopt an orphan baby elephant in Kenya and supply it with food and medicine for under £15 would be even more droll if I did not remember adopting a number of black babies in Africa as a schoolboy , and giving them foolish names like Chrysostom or Donaldina or Ambrose , at five shillings ( 25p ) a time . |
| 14 | His experience in retail and shopping centre management includes managing a number of shopping centres in New Zealand . |
| 15 | Garman and Klass provided a table of factors to adjust upwards the values of their estimator which requires knowing the number of transactions per time period . |
| 16 | However , at the end of 1981 a new superintendent instituted changes which included moving a number of the area 's community police-officers to other duties and clamping down on the activities by local youths which had previously been tolerated . |
| 17 | Without close-ups and action replays , I 'm afraid it seemed an awfully slow game and I started counting the number of people in the crowd wearing red , and longing for the little athletic wagtail who kept hopping onto the electronic line bleeper to hop back again . |
| 18 | A further 57 people were detained bringing the number interviewed to more than 1,000 since Operation Bumblebee began in January . |
| 19 | It is not much use improving the number and quality of the prison buildings if the prison management does not also improve . |
| 20 | Making an estimate of the second measure of objective risk would mean estimating the number of accidents per ten million vehicles ( or some other large denominator ) . |
| 21 | This has involved increasing the number of doctors and dentists by 16,000 , and the number of nurses by 60,000 , improving patient care . |
| 22 | This involves increasing the number of cases heard in the county courts , thereby maintaining High Court hearings for public law cases , specialist cases and general list cases of importance , complexity and substance . |
| 23 | Designing the interactivity means programming the number and location of the ‘ crossroads ’ in the database , establishing the decisions a user can take at each of them and determining the consequences of those decisions . |
| 24 | Where there has been suggestion that the new ‘ basic cycle ’ will involve shortening the number of years available to children ( in Sierra Leone , the 1973/1974 Educational Review originally suggested a two year cut from 7 to 5 years ) the reaction has been vehement . |
| 25 | Given that , as Tracey and Morrison point out , her stance on sin would also involve condemning a number of heterosexual practices — her position was not simply something that was specifically ‘ anti-homosexual ’ . |
| 26 | Additionally , for the last five years a history is kept aggregating the number of days absence by type of absence . |
| 27 | The proposed conditions include limiting the number of aerotows — launches using a powered tug aircraft — to 50 a day on Sundays and 60 a day on other days , up to a maximum of 2,000 a year . |
| 28 | A meeting with the Planning Inspectorate considered increasing the number of architect inspectors . |
| 29 | Kim Kennedy , mitigating , said Cardwell denied making the threats and also did not accept making the number of calls alleged . |
| 30 | To encourage LEAs to accelerate the reduction of places the DES issued another circular in 1981 ( DES , 1981 ) which asked the LEAs to inform the DES how they intended reducing the number of places available . |