Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] the number " in BNC.
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| 1 | This needs to be incremented by the number of unused pages you are lacking , so in this example we need to add to our total global pages count , giving us a new required total of 4050 . |
| 2 | The amount each local authority receives is likely to be calculated on the number of people in each area who are on the Poll Tax Register . |
| 3 | His consolation has to be that although she is , as an ideal , constantly changing , ‘ yet she dies only when the race of men is dead — then to be gathered to the number of the Gods . ’ |
| 4 | The mass of the PFM is unknown and therefore the abundances are not to be regarded as the number of atoms per kilogramme of PFM , 20 Ne being arbitrarily placed at 10 22 atoms per kilogramme to facilitate comparison with the graphs for the planets . |
| 5 | a number can be placed in the Number box . |
| 6 | a number can be placed in the Number box . |
| 7 | The numbers of animals were supposed to be limited to the number their farms could support in winter . |
| 8 | Should a question be included about the number of children in the unemployed person 's family ? |
| 9 | Such an MNP will have to obtain separate indemnity cover for overseas branch offices ; only the gross fees of the MNP 's offices in England and Wales will be taken into account in calculating its indemnity contributions ; and those partners in the MNP who normally practise from overseas offices will not be included in the number of principals for the purpose of calculating the contributions . |
| 10 | We are frequently reminded by the media and by professionals of various kinds of the size of the increase which is to be expected in the number of those aged over 75 or 85 years by the end of the century . |
| 11 | In other words , careful grouping procedures must be applied to the number of lines and to the curves . |
| 12 | If the date is to be precise to the year of felling , the bark must also be present , otherwise an estimate must be made of the number of missing rings corresponding to likely wastage by the carpenter . |
| 13 | No estimates could be made of the number of systems or the number of applications involving personal data — guesses ranged from 50,000 to 350,000 . |
| 14 | A decision might have to be made about the number of elderly people for which it is possible to take responsibility in any one family . |
| 15 | The Audit Commission has said that if all authorities did as well as the average , significant reductions could be made in the number of families living in temporary accommodation . |
| 16 | Indeed , a quota was said to be imposed on the number of warrants which the Home Office would permit the police at any one time in order to ensure that the need for existing warrants was carefully scrutinized . |
| 17 | The reliance of some of Africa 's English language press for some of its lighter material on foreign sources continues today , as can be seen from the number of papers which take English and American comic strips such as Modesty Blaise , Andy Capp , The Gambols , Garth , Peanuts and The Perishers . |
| 18 | The charge for the call can be transferred to the number called if it is accepted when the operator offers the call . |
| 19 | If groups of records are to be stored in buckets , it will be related to the number of buckets required . |
| 20 | He looked at the crime figures reported by the Merseyside police , where the increase in clear-up rates could be shown to be related to the number of prison visits by police officers . |
| 21 | For some 2,000 years great significance continued to be attributed to the number four . |
| 22 | Half an hour later Julia agreed the police should not be told about the number plate until Tuesday . |
| 23 | Similar conclusions can be drawn about the number of jobs held in an average career but there remain marked differences according to age , educational background , gender and size of firm . |
| 24 | If it is a popular tune , its spread through the meme pool may be gauged by the number of people heard whistling it in the streets . |
| 25 | On the second baseline there is no reason in the definition why it should not be measured as the number of violent outbursts including shouting at baby sister to make her cry . |
| 26 | The success of the year can be measured by the number of Branches that deserve special mention . |
| 27 | In contrast the authoritarian nature of Tanzanian politics can more usefully be measured by the number of political detainees which exceeded several hundred in the mid 1970s or in terms of the degree of pressure brought to bear on the rural population from 1974 to 1978 . |
| 28 | It can be measured by the number of other items which it can displace . |
| 29 | However , if success can be measured by the number of governments in all parts of the world now privatising their state-owned assets , then privatisation can be seen as a great success . |
| 30 | We agree that success of medical genetics can not be measured by the number of terminated pregnancies , any more than the success of surgery can be measured by the number of lower limbs amputated in patients with vascular stenosis . |