Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [art] [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | It shows , unequivocally , that many men in the last years of their lives do assume roles and perform tasks which have been traditionally associated with women , and it is clear that a substantial number do so with skill and tenderness . |
| 2 | But it is quite clear that a large number of people believe these three , who have now been in prison for 13 years , to be innocent of the crime for which they stand convicted . |
| 3 | It is also clear that an unknown number of officers have individually , over the years , passed material to loyalist terrorists . |
| 4 | From documents that I have been sent by the senior chief inspector it is clear that the total number of inspectors will be used as follows : 11 will conduct high-profile surveys and focus inspections , six will inspect schools at risk and another 26 will undertake inspections to supplement database evidence . |
| 5 | In this context it should be clear that the optimal number of residents in the locality is . |
| 6 | If this is indeed the case , the country will be faced with a permanent pool of three to four million unemployed and an increasing number of pensioners : and add to this the fact that there are a greater number of industrialised nations than ever before , including many , in the Far East in particular , not only affecting , but embarrassing , large sections of our established business . |
| 7 | Many of them believed that they were failing to find jobs because they were too old and a large number of the older respondents had become reconciled to the prospect of never working again . |
| 8 | It is also possible that an increased number of HAPCs correlates with the increased number of bowel movements commonly found in infants and children . |
| 9 | There appears to be little evidence that as a society we have become so rich that a substantial number of people are at this point . |
| 10 | BA in-flight catering serves all long-haul and a small number of short-haul services from the UK , producing about 25,000 meals a day from Catering Centre South , where 1,200 people are employed . |
| 11 | It is demonstrable that a suitable number of people cooperating on a task will achieve a better result than one person doing the same task . |
| 12 | A successful corporate financier needs to be more commercial , more extrovert and more ambitious than the average number cruncher , with leadership skills for when he — and it is still very much a male preserve — heads a team . |
| 13 | A successful corporate financier needs to be more commercial , more extrovert and more ambitious than the average number cruncher |
| 14 | It is likely that a considerable number of Romano-British by-roads came into existence in the same way for limited purposes and yet remain to be discovered on the map or on the ground . |
| 15 | In the future it is likely that an increasing number of services to schools will be contracted-out and any approach to whole-school planning must take this into account . |
| 16 | At lower temperatures , nucleation is rapid and a large number of small spherulites are formed . |
| 17 | This may be difficult when the warren is very large and a corresponding number of purse nets is needed but when working on burrow systems , rather than on the much larger warrens , twenty nets are often sufficient . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , the Kanda method is destructive and many of the mitotic cells become unscorable but a sufficient number are conserved to give a clear indication of X-chromosome activity . |
| 19 | Nominal roll-calls may be useful where a small number of staff , say 25 , are involved . |
| 20 | An individual scorer might be useful where an odd number of people are concerned . |
| 21 | If the candidate replies that she/he helped run a youth club in the town where she/he lived before you can be reasonably sure that a large number of young people is not going to come as a strange new experience . |
| 22 | I am sure that a considerable number of chemists — professionally recognised or otherwise — would be more encouraged to take up continuing education if this led to the award of a recognised National Vocational Qualification ( NVQ ) , or more appropriately a RSC certificate/diploma . |
| 23 | Dave Walsh , one of the event organisers , is confident that the final number will fall closer to 3000 . |
| 24 | Organisers are confident that the final number of riders will be double last year 's total . |
| 25 | The SSI is concerned that a small number of authorities could not show they had abided by this ruling and would require some further investigation by the SSI and the Audit Commission . |
| 26 | Patients treated with NSAIDs had more gastric but a similar number of duodenal ulcers as those not taking NSAIDs . |
| 27 | They specialised in questions which , to quote Bowley , " required an answer of 'yes ' or 'no' or a simple number or something equally definite and precise " . |
| 28 | In the 1980s it became apparent that an increasing number of the senior jobs were handled by executive search and this increased during the decade until the late 1980s , when 80% of all senior jobs in the UK sourced outside the company were covered by the search firms . |
| 29 | erm There are one or two people who have just begun to identify a faint movement back into an increase in numbers , but over very many years you can know pretty well exactly where you are as far as the total number of pupils you have to provide for is concerned , and therefore , in that sense , the system can plan its resources for a known population . |
| 30 | This stage game is repeated a finite or an infinite number of times , then play ends . |