Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The establishment of a core group of drawings to be used as a starting point for the attribution of other sheets on stylistic grounds remains the principal method of research and Mr Royalton-Kisch felt that the present exhibition has contributed to the furtherance of this work which , in the case of the British Museum , has whittled down the number of sheets from the 106 accepted by Benesch to eighty-four . |
| 2 | It is also a rather different exhibition conceptually : Alfonso Perez Sanchez , former Director of the Prado and co-organiser of the show , has declared that he wants the Spanish to get to know ‘ the real Ribera ’ , which means that he has whittled down the number of works . |
| 3 | When the index is computerised it will be practicable to increase greatly the number of names on the index . |
| 4 | The reasons for keeping down the number of updates to an inverted file are discussed below , and the form of a dual serial-inverted file system is shown in Fig. 8.4 . |
| 5 | Students may by now feel competent to generalise , and they should be encouraged to write down the number of patterns in a 4 × 2 grid , and test their answer by drawing . |
| 6 | We approached the problem in a different way , using a retrograde transneuronal tracer from cortex to retina to relate directly the number of ganglion cells projecting to marked areas of striate cortex . |
| 7 | The question can not be answered , therefore , by totting up the number of a lawyer 's victories , for in most cases there are no clear winners and losers . |
| 8 | You can just count up the number of rooms that you 're planning to do , ca n't you ? |
| 9 | However , tests showed that a faster schedule could be operated with a train of Gresley 's comfortable coaches seating double the number of passengers and hauled by one of his steam ‘ Pacific ’ type locomotives . |
| 10 | He jotted the three names down on a slip of paper with a gesture of finality and picked up the internal telephone , stabbing out the number for the code-room . |
| 11 | The idea of this method is very simple : to work out the number of dies used for any given coinage and multiply this total by the average number of coins each die could produce . |
| 12 | Knowing the number of d electrons , it is possible to work out the number of free ion terms by analyzing the microstates ; this process is described in Ref. [ 20 ] . |
| 13 | Taking out a pencil , she noted down the number on a piece of paper , and then peeped cautiously into the back of the car . |
| 14 | And if we cut down the number of our operations — for the part he 's making it would n't be worth automating . |
| 15 | Added to this there was a belief in the economies of scale of large organisations — hence the 1970 White Paper on the Reorganisation of Central Government and the 1972 Local Government Act which reduced substantially the number of local authorities creating much larger organisations . |
| 16 | I do not have the statistics to hand , but they show how the number of smokers differs between socio-economic groups . |
| 17 | I BRING you today a hand from a recent teams match where the number of tricks made in the same final contract was eleven in one room , but only six in the other . |
| 18 | The Scuds themselves have been a nuisance , the allies having under-estimated both the number of Iraq 's launchers and the ability of the Iraqi crews to conceal them . |
| 19 | The time of administration of the gonadotropins relative to each other and the light cycle of the mouse room affects both the number of eggs ovulated and their developmental uniformity . |
| 20 | These subjective factors open up the number of variations that need to be considered and hence leads to an underconstrained design situation that can stimulate major changes in product concepts . |
| 21 | After a long series of such measurements I add up the number of instances in which a particular combination of results has occurred . |
| 22 | Superovulation ( Chapter 1 , Section 5.4 ) increases both the number of eggs recovered and the synchrony , and , if combined with the use of a mitotic arrestant to accumulate eggs in metaphase , the success rate is greatly increased . |
| 23 | You can work out the number of fish a pond is able to support from the surface area and size of fish . |
| 24 | Figure 2.4 shows how the number of births in the United Kingdom has varied from year to year since 1964 , when it reached its highest figure since the 1920s . |
| 25 | What is a good average for two-colour work , will be hopelessly wrong for four-colour , because we are knitting double the number of rows to obtain the correct pattern , so the additional rows knitted will change the measurement of 40 rows in millimetres . |
| 26 | Murrie suggested Attlee should be encouraged to scrutinize carefully the number of committees being created and to circulate a memorandum discouraging ministers from raising questions unnecessarily . |
| 27 | Lady Cumberlege spoke of ‘ an EC form which asked farmers to fill in the number of cows they had — ‘ figures to be given in whole numbers ’ ' . |
| 28 | When people know only the number of payments and the amount of each instalment , their choice of repayment period has to be guided by the relationship between two conflicting factors . |
| 29 | Note here the contrast between closed- and open.loop control schemes ; with open-loop control the downcounter is able to record only the number of step commands sent to the motor and there is no guarantee that these steps have been executed . |
| 30 | Now just going on products , off the compost plant for the last six months , I 've gone through , I 've taken I 've noted down the number of samples taken , each month by month . |