Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulty in meeting the relaxed comparable income eligibility criteria and the complexity of preparing the plans has severely limited the number of plans agreed . |
| 2 | The draft White Paper also limited the number of cheap imported entertainment programmes . |
| 3 | For HLA-B35 peptides , the additional requirement for a terminal tyrosine limited the number of potential epitopes to be tested to 10 ( Table 2 ) . |
| 4 | However , both units limited the number of in-patients to two at any given time . |
| 5 | The fact that a peasant 's farm buildings were in the pueblo limited the number of cattle and hens he could keep ( it may be quite difficult to buy an egg in a town of 3,000 inhabitants ) and was one more factor inhibiting a satisfactory balance between animal and crop husbandry . |
| 6 | When string ensembles played in four parts , as they sometimes did if circumstances limited the number of players available , they simply left out the quinte . |
| 7 | The following morning , after the attack , the police were told about the abandoned Zodiac dinghy and also given the number of the camper van . |
| 8 | Is stripping and restoring the diffs a reasonable proposition given the number of special tools required , or would I be better off replacing them as a whole ? |
| 9 | Given the number of titled ladies in the volume , it is hard to believe that their struggles were absolutely equivalent to that of , say , Aphra Behn who at the end of her life was brought to desperate circumstances . |
| 10 | Given the number of left journals that declined to review Distant Voices , Still Lives , my summary of them will be all too brief . |
| 11 | Given the number of curriculum tasks which the school needed to address and the limited resources available to make a response with , the case had to be made not only for a partnership itself , but also for the prioritisation of this task over other needs which had been identified . |
| 12 | Given the number of people who are likely to oppose such a policy , it requires perseverance in implementation and faith in the ability of traditional attitudes to change . |
| 13 | After being shunted from the Bass Centre to Zildjian to Sound Control in Scotland ( the present dealers ) he was given the number of Warwick in Germany . |
| 14 | This kind of attitude is becoming increasingly outdated , given the number of top alternative comedians who have learned their craft at least partly outside London . |
| 15 | Given the number of mergers that have happened over recent years , it 's becoming a rare event when a firm can celebrate its centenary with the same name it started out with . |
| 16 | Given the number of prominent cases of judicial error in Britain over the past few years — Guildford Four , Birmingham Six , Stefan Kiszcko , the Tottenham Three and Judith Ward — it is not an abstract question . |
| 17 | The Kurecolor Twin KC-1100 clearly has tremendous scope given the number of colours , interchangeable points and other variables that can be introduced . |
| 18 | Given the number of days I 've spent wandering around the rain-sodden Moelwyns cursing Gore-Tex , my delight at this garment is quite understandable . |
| 19 | Not surprisingly , given the number of new products it has on the go , the company says that it is ploughing some 12% of its turnover back into research and development . |
| 20 | However , it seems most unlikely that from the media coverage any readers would have disbelieved the accounts of the two teenage girls , especially given the number of men involved . |
| 21 | Given the number of groups in any organization , it is inevitable that conflicts will develop . |
| 22 | It is a straight-down-the-middle view of the work , and given the number of rough edges I have to wonder whether it has anything more to offer than a dozen more successfully recorded alternatives . |
| 23 | Words were recognised almost twice as quickly by the fast readers and , given the number of words in each sentence , this leads to a large efficiency difference between individuals . |
| 24 | Though given the number of escalators actually working it probably would n't be for long . |
| 25 | Selecting locations is another time-consuming and difficult process that can spend or save a great deal of money , given the number of people involved and costs of travel , hotels , refreshments and all the other incidentals . |
| 26 | It contains a solution to the problem ( in Bayes 's words ) : ‘ Given the number of times in which an unknown event has happened and failed : Required the chance that the probability of its happening in a single trial lies somewhere between any two degrees of probability that can be named . ’ |
| 27 | If the risk was very great or obvious then , given the number of people using monitors and watching TV for long periods , then the effects would be more obvious . |
| 28 | Is the Minister aware that now that clear decisions have been taken on trust status , anxiety in Sheffield relates to the likely impact of the Chancellor 's autumn statement on the health authority 's financial position next year and in the long term , and particularly the need for greater per capita funding given the number of elderly people and the levels of health inequality and social deprivation in Sheffield , particularly in Attercliffe ? |
| 29 | However , to assert that there is a very great deal remaining to be said about the mutual effects of semantics and syntax may seem a bold claim , perhaps even a surprising one , given the number of those who have worked on both areas and the many publications with titles suggesting that the two have been linked inside their covers . |
| 30 | And indeed , given the number of dwellings that are proposed by the County Council , we see from completion rates that in fact those figures , broadly compare to the sort of completion rates we 've had through the recession . |