Example sentences of "be [vb pp] as a number " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It is important for the saving of the pool to be at the forefront of everyone 's minds it should be treated as a number one priority . ’
2 So far , then , leadership can be seen as a number of different factors , comprising ;
3 Ideally , this should be the same as P(G) for each G. The discrepancy between them can be quantified as a number , commonly called C. This is zero when each P' ( G ) equals the corresponding P(G) .
4 This has the advantage of being expressed as a number and is thus amenable to statistical analysis , but it does not recognise different types of colonic pressure waves .
5 The tuning delay is given as a number of seconds where a value of 0 provides no delay and any value greater than 60 seconds is defaulted to 60 .
6 An overall limit is applied as a number of disc blocks to be restored , to prevent the LIFESPAN process file store being flooded with modules waiting ‘ hard copy ’ .
7 The grey level is expressed as a number , normally on a 0–255 or 0–1023 scale , so that the resulting raster representation of the map contains sufficient spatial and contrast resolution .
8 Should you happen to be driving in the vicinity of one of these ‘ sealed lorries ’ extreme caution is advised as a number of motorists have found to their cost , sometimes the spills are more substantial .
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