Example sentences of "[be] that the number " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result , however , has been that the number of jobs created has been far smaller than the number of jobs lost . |
| 2 | What is clear , however , is that the numbers of royal clerks who identified their interests with the crown 's and defied Pecham — and later Winchelsey — were formidable and growing . |
| 3 | The reason for this is that the number of tucks within the work distorts the knit stitches in such a way that they rise up above the surface of the knitting , forming a very three-dimensional effect . |
| 4 | He says he has already ruled out IBM Corp , and what makes the announcement intriguing is that the number of potential partners is so small . |
| 5 | A consequence of fig-wasp life-cycles is that the number of female wasps laying in a fig determines the opportunity for horizontal transmission by the nematodes . |
| 6 | One advantage is that the number of seconds when grading one 's own eggs are usually less than producers experience when supplying a Packing Station . |
| 7 | And so if we look at what happened generally between nineteen seventy eight and nineteen eighty two the general picture is that the number of total holidays taken actually fell by three percent . |
| 8 | One important reason is that the number of possible distinct uses of topless seems to be , in principle , open ; so any attempt to draw up a determinate closed list would be of questionable validity . |
| 9 | The basic criterion for the need to reorganize a direct file is that the number of seeks per access has risen appreciably . |
| 10 | First , its underlying assumption is that the number of entities that the world consists of is finite . |
| 11 | Legislation apart ( including the European fifth company law directive which , although still in draft form since 1972 , with its proposals for unlimited liability and confusing two-tier boards continues to be a major issue of concern to the insurance market , according to Bell ) , the expectation is that the number of outstanding court actions will increase the frequency of civil claims against directors in the coming years . |
| 12 | Our objective is that the number of special constables should equal about 20 per cent . |
| 13 | The reality is that the number of single-person households in a particular district is part of the profile that is drawn in order to establish the standard spending assessment , and therefore the grant that goes to the local authority . |
| 14 | ( An alternative expression of Lotka 's Law derived by Kyvik 114 is that the number of scientists producing n papers is proportional to 1/n 2 . |
| 15 | ( An alternative expression of Lotka 's Law derived by Kyvik is that the number of scientists producing n papers is proportional to 1/n . |
| 16 | The disadvantage is that the number of horizontal cells is reduced from 760 , the number of ink dots that can be printed across one line , to 380 as two ink dots in the horizontal and vertical directions make one cell . |
| 17 | Unemployment is one third lower than in 1987 but the key point is that the number in work keeps going up . |
| 18 | The only problem is that the number of treatment combinations resulting is usually considerable so that large blocks must be tolerated or confounding introduced . |
| 19 | Yeah sort of thing , so I have heard you say only three is that the number of posts they put in ? |
| 20 | The idea was that the number of people engaged in this activity would increase dramatically with every action , thereby demonstrating the depth of feeling against nuclear weapons . |
| 21 | The idea of increasing the diameter in waterwheels was that the number of ‘ buckets ’ could be increased and so the bigger the wheel the more power was generated . |
| 22 | The problem with that solution was that the number of positions to be evaluated expands to astronomical levels very rapidly . |
| 23 | The principal recommendation of the Working Party was that the number of mandatory design and furniture standards be reduced from fourteen to six couched in more general terms to permit greater freedom of interpretation . |
| 24 | The only saving grace was that the number Quinn had dictated down the line to Zack was still on the Kensington exchange . |
| 25 | One result of this change was that the number of households enumerated was about 300 thousands more under the new definition or about 13 per cent ( Todd and Griffiths , 1986 ) . |
| 26 | One of these predictions was that the number of galaxies or similar objects in any given volume of space should be the same wherever and whenever we look in the universe . |
| 27 | A general impression was that the number of loans of theses on the physical sciences and technology was less than those on the Arts , Social Sciences , Theology , and other non-science subjects . |