Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | The master key both advances the stage and records the total number of points counted . |
| 2 | This column displays the current number of errors , in the range 0 to 1000 , which have been reported on the media item in this and previous Offline Cycles . |
| 3 | This column displays the current number of errors , in the range 0 to 100 , reported on the media unit in this and previous Offline Cycles . |
| 4 | The tape should also be marked with ‘ 1 of x ’ , where{ x } represents the final number of tapes used to archive the table . |
| 5 | The tape should be marked with 1 of x , where } x{ represents the final number of tapes used to archive the table . |
| 6 | A bar chart is simply a series of blocks or bars in which each bar represents the total number of items being compared . |
| 7 | It assumes each age to be of equal significance and represents the total number of children born ( on average ) to each woman of a hypothetical cohort throughout her life . |
| 8 | When you play the disc , another laser beam ‘ reads ’ the pattern of flaws , and a special-purpose computer built into the player turns the binary numbers back into sound vibrations , which are amplified so that you can hear them . |
| 9 | Line A contains the approximate number ( " three " ) , line B the precise number . |
| 10 | Nolan , who has the requisite number of uncles and elder brothers , has treated a wide range of diseases since the time when , aged two , he cured another child of ringworm . |
| 11 | The largest market in South America is Venezuela , and United Distillers has the clear number one brand in the deluxe , the standard and the locally bottled Scotch whisky sectors . |
| 12 | The score places the grotesque number for six dancing monkeys as the second of a sequence of three orchestral numbers played during a spectacular scene shift : |
| 13 | As a compendium of illustrations , invariably in good colour , it gives a visual document of the artist 's development unmatched by any other publication , particularly since it illustrates the small number of major works which could not be loaned to the exhibition . |
| 14 | Each shot causes a variable number of hits as described below . |
| 15 | In bureaucratic organizations the latter notion ultimately leads to situations in which a man can be called a ‘ manager ’ solely on the grounds that he supervises a certain number of people , and without regard to the degree of judgement or decision-making responsibility such supervision requires . |
| 16 | The brand covers a large number of DOC vineyards . |
| 17 | This umbrella term covers a large number of different therapies , which concentrate strongly on the ‘ wholeness ’ of a person and their potential for good . |
| 18 | It specifies a large number of actions to be taken , including the appointment of teachers in each school with , among other duties , a responsibility for interagency liaison . |
| 19 | ‘ Wants the phone and wants a bloody number an ’ all . ’ |
| 20 | To evaluate those opposing recommendations , scientists at Ball State University in the United States studies a large number of marathon runners . |
| 21 | Although it only contains a small number of members , we have here a distinct and interesting adjective type , which among other things strikingly illustrates the unconscious linguistic skill of ordinary speakers ( see also Appendix B Section 5 ) . |
| 22 | The BBC survey contains a large number of ‘ before and after ’ reactions by the public . |
| 23 | If the cytochrome oxidase stain is used on the rat somatosensory cortex , the cortex contains a large number of patches shaped like barrels ( Land and Simons 1985 ) . |
| 24 | A public language is one which contains a large number of idiomatic , traditional phrases from which the individual chooses . |
| 25 | Every culture contains a large number of guidelines which direct conduct in particular situations . |
| 26 | Difficulties arise with such techniques when it is necessary to choose both the objectives and constraint forms for a design condition that contains a large number of conflicting requirements . |
| 27 | Report 11 ( Alexander and Willcocks 1992 ) contains a large number of annotated examples from our considerable body of transcript material : they repay close analysis . |
| 28 | The book contains a large number of photographs . |
| 29 | It was mentioned earlier that a remotely-sensed image is made up of a number of scan lines and that each scan line contains a large number of pixel values . |
| 30 | The analysis of the English vowel system presented in Chapters 2 and 3 contains a large number of phonemes , and it is not surprising that some phonologists ( who believed in the importance of keeping the total number of phonemes small ) proposed different analyses which contain less than ten vowel phonemes and treat all long vowels and diphthongs as composed of two phonemes each . |