Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] the [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Deutsche Bundespost Telekom has joined the swelling number of service providers officially endorsing the Network Management Forum 's OmniPoint network management specification by incorporating it into its procurement strategy . |
| 2 | The restaurant manager has to know the estimated number of guests to be expected in the restaurant and in order to prepare the meals the chef needs to be informed of any special requirements . |
| 3 | The second variant is the one that has produced the greatest number of specific theories of cyclical crisis . |
| 4 | This means that claims by UK citizens under the Convention must always be pursued to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to obtain judgment , with the result that the UK has had the highest number of judgments made against it by the European Court of Human Rights for one or more violations of the Convention 's terms . |
| 5 | It 'll involve us developing visiting schemes , under eight services , helping families in different ways , improving services for disabled children , developing family centres , and a new specific — this 'll might amuse you this — a new specific responsibility for us to inspect and register the care practices of private schools in the County , and Oxfordshire has got the biggest number of those in the whole country . |
| 6 | Mr Alan Hogan , aged 28 , has spent the same number of years with Tioxide . |
| 7 | Determination of the number average molar mass M n involves counting the total number of molecules , regardless of their shape or size , present in a unit mass of the polymer . |
| 8 | However , it does have the least number of extras supplied with it , so it is basic in that sense . |
| 9 | Since 1980 , the Home Office has collected its own crime figures through the British crime survey , which attempts to gauge the total number of crimes committed rather than those notified to the police . |