Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] [art] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Miliutin 's words , " serfdom does not permit us either to reduce the term of service or to increase the number of unlimited leaves so as to diminish the present number of troops " . |
| 2 | Conditions may also be imposed to require the caravans to be removed at the end of each season or to require a number of pitches on a site to be reserved for touring caravans . |
| 3 | A common situation which creates problems is the use of a single report to identify a large number of failures , or to mix a number of failures in with a variety of suggestions . |
| 4 | A common situation which creates problems is the use of a single report to identify a large number of failures , or to mix a number of failures in with a variety of suggestions . |
| 5 | It is also relatively easy to double the number of lines displayed to improve definition , or to double the number of picture frames displayed every second to eliminate flicker . |
| 6 | For example , a duty to have children , or to limit the number of children one has , a duty not to send children to a private school , or to do so , a duty not to use private health services , or to do so . |
| 7 | To follow up initial discussions with interested parties and to arrange a number of presentations . |
| 8 | Indicating continued reluctance to abandon Soviet superiority in land-based strategic missiles [ see pp. 37223 ; 38255 ; 38457 ] , Gorbachev offered to halt , rather than ban , the development of a small-dimension mobile inter-continental ballistic missile ( ICBM ) and to freeze the number of launching sites for rail-based multiple-warhead ICBMs . |
| 9 | It was hoped to increase awareness of the library and its services and to increase the number of users . |
| 10 | One of the chief effects of enclosure was to reduce the number of yeoman farmers and to increase the number of landless workers . |
| 11 | I assure him that the money spent on the health reforms will lead to greater efficiencies and savings — its purpose is to improve patient care and to increase the number of patients treated — and it is extra to the maintenance programme . |
| 12 | Paz Zamora had already announced a new electoral law and a single national register ( RUN ) on June 30 , designed to guarantee the impartiality of electoral procedures and to increase the number of registered voters , especially among ethnic minorities and those resident abroad . |
| 13 | Included in our work is an element of training of volunteers , to multiply the work , and to increase the number of those committed to change in all the churches . |
| 14 | The plan aimed to upgrade existing industries and to attract a number of new ones , such as financial services . |
| 15 | He called on the government to set legal limits of lead in water in line with WHO guidelines , and to widen the number of households eligible for grants to replace lead piping . |
| 16 | In addition there are plans to improve the lighting of the works of art and to clean a number of paintings , including The Garden of Love by Rubens . |
| 17 | These objectives were to improve employment prospects in the inner cities ; to reduce derelict land and sites ; to strengthen the social fabric of the inner city ; and to reduce the number of People in acute housing stress . |
| 18 | The new scheme is intended , inter alia , to promote consistency and fairness and to reduce the number of cases which are brought where there is a lack of evidence . |
| 19 | For determination of immunoglobulin secreting cells the wells were coated with antihuman IgA , IgG , and IgM , and to determine the number of specific antibody secreting cells , beta lactoglobulin , casein , and gliadin were used as coating antigens . |
| 20 | ‘ the encouraging fact is that in most areas there is capacity to allow both for the protection of the countryside and to build the number of houses we need . |
| 21 | The survey aims to quantify solidarity amongst employers and to analyse a number of themes : |
| 22 | The possibility of allowing students to produce near-typeset quality material at relatively little cost in order both to experiment in graphic design and presentation and to expand the number of publications as practical work . |
| 23 | The second purpose is to build upon the work that the investigators and others have previously done and to investigate a number of specific theoretical issues . |
| 24 | The purpose of the interviewing programme was to collect background information on the nature of the railways and their industrial relations , and to examine a number of key issues and events with the actors who had participated in them . |
| 25 | Stressing that his views were personal and not society policy , Mr Adair gave as examples of tinkering with the criminal system attempts to have the not proven verdict abolished , to introduce an offensive weapons charge and to examine the number of crimes committed by people already on bail . |
| 26 | For definiteness , and to maximize the number of significant digits in the fraction , we require all non-zero floating-point numbers to be held in normalized form . |