Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the attentive parent may wonder why F. D. Eastman 's Are you my mother ? or the current number of The Dandy has such a hold over their child . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | One would like very often to have more erm people involved in decision making , but they simply do n't have the time to inform themselves and one or two experiments in the kind of democracy you might Brian might have had in mind , came to horrible grief where decisions were taken simply uninformed and where the small number of people present who were informed were n't able to persuade the majority and the history of education is littered with them most unfortunate examples of this . |
| 4 | Clearly , however , where the overall number of speakers is small as it is in many sociolinguistic surveys , the number of higher-status speakers turning up in a random selection procedure which samples from the entire urban area will be correspondingly small . |
| 5 | Instead of doing all that , try ‘ preparing ’ your numbers in the following way : where the top number is the smaller one , add 10 to it and add I to the bottom figure immediately to the left . |
| 6 | CMV is the simplest form of positive pressure ventilation , where a fixed number of breaths ( frequency ) of a specified size ( tidal volume ) are delivered to give a total volume of gas per minute ( minute volume ) . |
| 7 | Here was a circumstance where a great number of foreigners , who would be unable to speak the local language , whose customs would be regarded with suspicion , and whose mariner of worship differed significantly , were suddenly thrust upon a remote community . |
| 8 | Nominal roll-calls may be useful where a small number of staff , say 25 , are involved . |
| 9 | Chef Robert Kranenborg has a Chef 's Table in the kitchen , where a small number of guests are invited to dine on special occasions to watch the brigade at work . |
| 10 | Thus we frequently have a pattern where a relatively difficult examination is set to conform to the entry standards someone hopes may be achieved , where a large number of candidates do very badly on it and some of the least bewildered are then selected for further education . |
| 11 | Where a large number of female cats are kept together in a cattery , observers have noticed that the kittens born there are often shared out between the mothers . |
| 12 | On a recent visit to a day centre , where a large number of old people had regular baths , I was told that bath time was a time for confidences and chats . |
| 13 | Twenty-five was about the average age of marriage for Scottish women , — and it does appear to be the case that with the notable exception of Dundee ( where a large number of women continued working ) it was usual throughout the period up to 1914 to give up regular employment on marriage and to return to it only if widowed or in great hardship . |
| 14 | ( f ) A locality where a large number of the parents are antagonistic to the values and purposes represented by the school . |
| 15 | NAM originated in the Bandung Conference of 1955 , where a large number of poor African and Asian countries called for a better economic deal from the rich countries of the world . |
| 16 | Continuous running is only of benefit where a large number of modules are to be transferred to offline storage or where much hard copy has already been done , and many module versions can be nominated or deleted . |
| 17 | Where a large number of the villagers were freeholders , they could more easily resist the lord 's attempts at enclosure than where their numbers were low . |
| 18 | Because of the size of the data this is a large commitment to space which is only worthwhile where a large number of people want to look at a lot of the data . |
| 19 | The reader is referred to Section K of Vol 3 of Kemp & Kemp , where a large number of such awards will be found . |
| 20 | Notwithstanding random fluctuations due to statistical causes mentioned above ( insufficient number of cases observed , sampling and response errors ) , in most communities , all — reverse " J " , " U " , " J " and linear — forms of the relationship are recognizable , especially for infants born to mothers in their twenties , where a sizeable number of events was reported . |
| 21 | This opposition was initiated and had its structural base in the industrial sphere , more specifically , in the gas industry where a growing number of semiskilled workers suffered from intensification of work during the 1880s . |
| 22 | Where a significant number of individuals share a colour that deviates from the species norm , we term it a colour morph . |
| 23 | This Election provides a stark contrast with the one of 1690 , when there had been a great deal of controversial pamphleteering , and where a significant number of contests had been fought over the issues of the Church and the security of the Protestant Succession . |
| 24 | A small number of languages , such as Fijian , even distinguish between singular , dual , trial ( covering three or a small number ) , and plural . |
| 25 | Previous work has focused on one or a small number of these activities , such as idea generation ; screening or development work proper . |
| 26 | Someone says , now is this a big number or a small number . |
| 27 | W what is that , a big number or a small number . |
| 28 | A decision will also have to be made whether to use a number of smaller local distributors or a small number of large national distributors . |
| 29 | They specialised in questions which , to quote Bowley , " required an answer of 'yes ' or 'no' or a simple number or something equally definite and precise " . |
| 30 | Yes , maybe I did have them all , or a good number of them anyway . |