Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A thorough review of this literature , by Jastrzembski ( 1981 ) , discusses the implications of the effects of frequency and number of meanings for this model of an internal lexicon . |
| 2 | A comparison of the prospectuses for 1980–81 and 1986–87 of a number of institutions for this study suggested that , contrary to the arthritic stereotype purveyed sometimes by the press and others who should know better , degree provision in higher education is by no means static . |
| 3 | The number of steps to the ladder and number of trials for each step is negotiable , but the general principle of graded systematic exposure , facing up to the difficulty and learning to cope with it , holds for each of these cases . |
| 4 | We reviewed the quarterly KC60 returns from all genitourinary medicine clinics in England and Wales to determine the number of attenders for each diagnosis , sex , and ( for some diagnoses ) sexual orientation and age group . |
| 5 | However , there are about 170 different languages spoken in London alone , so that it would be logistically impossible to have an adequate number of bilinguals for each service and language . |
| 6 | Someone estimates that the average number of formats for each single is four . |
| 7 | Information that was previously printed in the annual booklet of regulations , syllabuses and timetables has been split into a number of sections for 1993 . |
| 8 | Information that was previously printed in the annual booklet of regulations , syllabuses and timetables has been split into a number of sections for 1993 . |
| 9 | Mahathir 's proposal was one of a number of plans for enhanced intra-ASEAN economic co-operation which came under discussion at the 24th annual meeting of ASEAN Foreign Ministers held in Malaysia in July 1991 [ see p. 38345-46 ] . |
| 10 | The line Nopt plots the optimal number of residents for any given quantity of the public good . |
| 11 | No attempt was made to treat early or rare books in a similar way to ‘ ordinary ’ material since the number of requests for such items was felt to be insufficiently great to produce meaningful results . |
| 12 | We furthermore constructed a number of devices for easy handling of 32 P ( Fig. 1 ) : |
| 13 | In this case , buying and selling an equal number of contracts for each leg may lead to an unbalanced spread . |
| 14 | Although the past few months have seen quite a number of problems for European unity , one area that remains firmly fixed is the demolition of trade barriers in 1993 . |
| 15 | The bishops discussed some of the implications of the change and issued a number of proposals for further discussion at local level around the country . |
| 16 | McTaggart raises a number of difficulties for this view . |
| 17 | The number of towns over which low-level flying was banned was increased from 25 to 61 and the hours of low-level flying conducted by the West German Air Force was to be reduced from 23,000 to 21,000 each year , although the number of hours for other NATO air forces remained at 45,000 . |
| 18 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 19 | The results in Table 7.2 clearly show a reduction in the number of word-paths for all sets ; however there were also many utterances for which the correct word-path was not included as one of the alternative word-paths ( Table 7.3 ) . |
| 20 | The average number of word-paths for Xs was 518,058.3 . |
| 21 | The LOB tagset contains a number of tags for closed class words ( e.g. personal pronouns , conjugations of to be and to have ) . |
| 22 | In a number of countries for some years , the wearing of crash helmets by motor cyclists has been obligatory . |
| 23 | In the last part of this contribution , Brown identifies a number of priorities for future research . |
| 24 | Sheila Payne suggests a number of reasons for this : the side effects of the drugs become more distressing ; patients are aware that they will have to go through further courses of similar treatment and feel gloomy at the prospect ; and they receive less support from health professionals than at the start . |
| 25 | There are a number of reasons for this . |
| 26 | There are a number of reasons for this which could take all day to expound , but the main reason and the one I shall elaborate is that industrialised agriculture nearly always consumes more energy than it produces and is living off capital in the form of fossil fuels . |
| 27 | There may be a number of reasons for this . |
| 28 | There are a number of reasons for this : |
| 29 | There are a number of reasons for this failure . |
| 30 | There are a number of reasons for this advice . |