Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] a [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | While no operational difficulties were reported during SeaDocs ' experiment , and while the fees per registration fluctuated between only $300 and $500 , SeaDocs failed to attract a sufficient number of traders and financial institutions to survive . |
| 2 | It was intended to provide a large number of alternative words and expressions for subjects , so that advice workers could look for information under terms which were familiar to them and still find the right information . |
| 3 | ( The more lenders there are competing for the same customers , the hard for each has to work to attract a given number of customers — and an obvious way of attracting customers is by cutting rates . ) |
| 4 | The evidence comes from a number of sources , for instance , the ex-head of reactor designer research at Harwell , Mr Denis Dorson , he on a number of occasions tried to institute a great number of changes into the reactors to make them safer . |
| 5 | I I 'm certainly not My Lords er un er er an unqualified admirer of all our procedures in local Government , but I do believe that before central Government is further down the road of , of erm usurping functions which are now those of local government it has to persuade a large number of people that its own performance justifies such a course and myself I do n't believe it does . |
| 6 | Presumably , the Met only wants to put a limited number of TAFs on the system in order to save money and work ( it costs more to have a larger number of pages for your ‘ area ’ on the Prestel database ) . |
| 7 | Such models can be designed to take a large number of factors into account at any one time . |
| 8 | The present study was therefore designed to recruit a large number of patients , all of whom received the same treatment , allowing unequivocal refutation of the prospectively defined hypotheses that a heavy physical workload and a high prior recurrence rate are associated with a decreased healing rate . |
| 9 | Here are some examples which confirm that professional Japanese and Chinese translators are sensitive to the difference in function of the passive in English and in their target languages and generally tend to replace a large number of English passive structures with active structures in their target texts in order to avoid negative connotations . |
| 10 | Then came more accidents — we seemed to have a large number of accidents in the 1950s and early 1960s and many of them finished up as public inquiries . |
| 11 | The Lynx is being designed to fit on a 6 ’ by 9 ’ circuit board for embedded and mobile real-time distributed applications , and the Center plans to deliver a small number of the four-processor Lynxes to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the fourth quarter of 1993 under a US Defense Department development programme . |
| 12 | The Lynx is being designed to fit on a 6″ by 9″ circuit board for embedded and mobile real-time distributed applications , and the Center plans to deliver a small number of the four-processor Lynxes to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the fourth quarter of 1993 under a US Defense Department development programme . |
| 13 | We intend to identify a small number of potential purchasers by discrete enquiries in the UK and through our International M&A Network . |
| 14 | The wrapping machine was pre-set to wrap a given number of biscuits . |
| 15 | So , you know , if you 're going to talk in terms of losses , then it does suggest , heaven forbid that the allies have got to lose a tremendous number of aircraft before the equation sort of balances . |
| 16 | They can only be used to compare a limited number of items and their impact is heightened when there are considerable differences between the items being compared . |
| 17 | But he was still very much a public man , and to pay for his visit he had agreed to give a limited number of addresses and readings . |
| 18 | I have also offered to send a small number of officials from the Ministry of Defence to the Russian Ministry of Defence to advise on the restructuring and control and financing of armed forces in a democratic society . |
| 19 | I think that , unless you are going to knit a vast number of buttonholes of the same size , it is much quicker to select the pushers by hand . |
| 20 | Most constables would like to have a reasonable number of dramatic or at least interesting crimes to deal with . |
| 21 | ‘ Unfortunately we have had to disappoint a large number of capable girls , causing the governors a great deal of anguish . |
| 22 | The first 1,000 ports of this network have already been installed and accepted by Telefonica , which intends to introduce a large number of new network services aimed at covering the information needs of Spain 's largest companies . |
| 23 | you seem to show a fair number of women , especially when compared with other galleries . |
| 24 | We intend to use a good number of the shots for promotional and exhibition uses in the run up to the 1993 Year of Railways . |
| 25 | ‘ I get to see a fair number of architects , and some firms are just barely hanging on ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I get to see a fair number of architects , and some firms are just barely hanging on . |
| 27 | The institutes of higher education and jurisprudence established in the early nineteenth century began to train a small number of highly competent officials who consciously broke with the haphazard approach of the past . |
| 28 | It is certainly less strain to be in a job where you relate to and get to know a limited number of people . |
| 29 | Inevitably as a journalist you get to know a large number of people , and it 's people who make appointments . |
| 30 | She began to dial a Nice number . |