Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Y , you , you h , you want , you 've got to go for neutral colours , that 's going to sort of stress the less number of people have n't you ? |
| 2 | In addition , HARPY limited the average number of competitors over a stretch of speech and also constrained their identity , thereby ensuring that the items were easily discriminable as measured by their acoustic match scores . |
| 3 | The unit 's findings are based on a variety of factors such as : *more travel is likely to be for leisure purposes , with people taking greater advantage of greater access to the countryside *there simply is n't enough space in the cities to accommodate the predicted number of privately owned cars . |
| 4 | The school was extended to accommodate the increased number of children and an additional school was built for the infants . |
| 5 | It is relatively easy for an admissions authority to admit in excess of the standard number , provided various conditions are met — of which the most important is that the school buildings are adequate to accommodate the new number . |
| 6 | By far the most prominent pattern is represented by the regular development of narrow-fronted strip buildings along the main frontages in such a way as to accommodate the maximum number of properties in the space available . |
| 7 | When , in 1150 , the citizens of La Rochelle had asked the Bishop of Saintes for permission to build a new parish church to accommodate the growing number of worshippers , they had met with a refusal . |
| 8 | Log paper comes in several numbers of cycles ; the specimen in figure 11.6 contains three cycles , allowing the highest number to be as much as 10 3 or 1000 times as high as the smallest ; four cycle paper would allow it to be as much as 10 4 or 10,000 times as high . |
| 9 | Please give your cleaner a score by circling the appropriate number . |
| 10 | Please give your cleaner a score by circling the appropriate number . |
| 11 | Please give your cleaner a score by circling the appropriate number . |
| 12 | When compiling the timetable , a time should be selected to enable the maximum number of trained staff to attend . |
| 13 | So one seems to have perfect control ; both mice have received the same number of shocks , but one learns how to avoid the shock , the other can not , for there is no escape ; the number of shocks it receives is entirely governed by the behaviour of its learning partner . |
| 14 | The master key both advances the stage and records the total number of points counted . |
| 15 | What makes it look all the more daft is that they will often have to wear the same number tabard all the way through , which over top hat and tails makes them look like someone wearing his vest over his dinner jacket . |
| 16 | The conference being of a very high level , the participants had been limited to just eighteen very distinguished gentlemen and two ladies — a German countess and the formidable Mrs Eleanor Austin , at that time still resident in Berlin ; but each of these might reasonably bring secretaries , valets and interpreters , and there proved no way of ascertaining the precise number of such persons to expect . |
| 17 | These Diploma holders , together with a further four members who qualified for the FSD under the Lombard Scheme , bring the total number of FSD holders to 387 worldwide . |
| 18 | The latest redundancies bring the total number of job losses at the factory to thirteen hundred , in less than three years . |
| 19 | Wordsworth produced quantities of verse in the next forty-three years : I stress the exact number of years because it amounts to over half his lifetime , and certainly to two-thirds of his poetic existence . |
| 20 | The p value is then taken from standard tables of ‘ t ’ using the appropriate number of degrees of freedom . |
| 21 | Try using the same number and range of staff that are presently involved in giving nursing care , however it is organised . |
| 22 | You know so make sure the units are the same and the scale is the same so you 're using the same number of squares for each one . |
| 23 | Given the increasing number of changes that schools are having to make , the process of change is likely to feel more manageable if it is managed . |
| 24 | Given the vast number of nationalities represented by the Soviet Russian empire , and the long-smouldering resentments of national minorities incorporated into that empire by force , this is hardly surprising . |
| 25 | Women , and men for that matter , had no sources to call upon for improvement of their looks other than plants , and the vast cosmetic industry that we know today has replaced what was probably just as complicated a business two or three thousand years ago , given the great number of plants that have cosmetic application . |
| 26 | Given the small number of subjects in the sample and the fact that there are no significant correlations between subject variables and either of the variables of particular interest , risk ratings and number of junctions recalled , they will not be considered further . |
| 27 | There is no pretence of competition with commercial banks for private sector business , and there is some suggestion that the accounts are maintained in order for the Bank to keep in touch with banking practice , although the degree to which such experience accrues is likely to be limited given the small number of accounts relative to a commercial bank . |
| 28 | Given the limited number of transistors that can be integrated into a single chip computer , the RISC high-level language is implemented mainly using software , with hardware support for only the most time consuming events such as the passing of parameters in procedure calls . |
| 29 | Obviously , a sensible consumer should not be surprised that , given the same number of weeks to pay , an increase in any one measure of cost is paralleled by increases in the other two measures . |
| 30 | The nature of the financing of overseas subsidiaries is also a key factor , given the large number of UK companies that have maintained substantial foreign currency borrowings ( particularly dollar ) and sterling cash deposits . |