Example sentences of "be that [art] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result , however , has been that the number of jobs created has been far smaller than the number of jobs lost . |
| 2 | The consequence of presenting any printed word , then , will be that a number of logogens will receive varying degrees of evidence — these logogens will be activated to different levels . |
| 3 | What is missed by those who follow Nettl 's view , is that a number of Marxists would probably agree , in the sense that the idea of the state as merely an agent distorts the observed contradictions within the bourgeoisie , and assumes a purely passive role for the state in capitalism . |
| 4 | The only drawback , in a subject where condition is paramount , is that a number have suffered from over-zealous cleaning by the resident armourers . |
| 5 | In many parts of the country there has clearly been a shift of settlement in Saxon times and the implication of this is that a number of Saxon settlements remain to be found , away from the medieval villages , in what are former open field areas . |
| 6 | The most likely possibility is that a number ( of uncertain size but probably Reynolds number dependent ) of the hairpin vortices occur within an eruption and maybe also within an inrush — an interpretation suggested primarily by numerical simulation . |
| 7 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 8 | What is clear , however , is that the numbers of royal clerks who identified their interests with the crown 's and defied Pecham — and later Winchelsey — were formidable and growing . |
| 9 | The reason for this is that the number of tucks within the work distorts the knit stitches in such a way that they rise up above the surface of the knitting , forming a very three-dimensional effect . |
| 10 | He says he has already ruled out IBM Corp , and what makes the announcement intriguing is that the number of potential partners is so small . |
| 11 | A consequence of fig-wasp life-cycles is that the number of female wasps laying in a fig determines the opportunity for horizontal transmission by the nematodes . |
| 12 | One advantage is that the number of seconds when grading one 's own eggs are usually less than producers experience when supplying a Packing Station . |
| 13 | And so if we look at what happened generally between nineteen seventy eight and nineteen eighty two the general picture is that the number of total holidays taken actually fell by three percent . |
| 14 | One important reason is that the number of possible distinct uses of topless seems to be , in principle , open ; so any attempt to draw up a determinate closed list would be of questionable validity . |
| 15 | The basic criterion for the need to reorganize a direct file is that the number of seeks per access has risen appreciably . |
| 16 | First , its underlying assumption is that the number of entities that the world consists of is finite . |
| 17 | Legislation apart ( including the European fifth company law directive which , although still in draft form since 1972 , with its proposals for unlimited liability and confusing two-tier boards continues to be a major issue of concern to the insurance market , according to Bell ) , the expectation is that the number of outstanding court actions will increase the frequency of civil claims against directors in the coming years . |
| 18 | Our objective is that the number of special constables should equal about 20 per cent . |
| 19 | The reality is that the number of single-person households in a particular district is part of the profile that is drawn in order to establish the standard spending assessment , and therefore the grant that goes to the local authority . |
| 20 | ( An alternative expression of Lotka 's Law derived by Kyvik 114 is that the number of scientists producing n papers is proportional to 1/n 2 . |
| 21 | ( An alternative expression of Lotka 's Law derived by Kyvik is that the number of scientists producing n papers is proportional to 1/n . |
| 22 | The disadvantage is that the number of horizontal cells is reduced from 760 , the number of ink dots that can be printed across one line , to 380 as two ink dots in the horizontal and vertical directions make one cell . |
| 23 | Unemployment is one third lower than in 1987 but the key point is that the number in work keeps going up . |
| 24 | The only problem is that the number of treatment combinations resulting is usually considerable so that large blocks must be tolerated or confounding introduced . |
| 25 | Yeah sort of thing , so I have heard you say only three is that the number of posts they put in ? |
| 26 | The upshot of this was that a number of companies pulled out of the timber-frame house-building market and the proportion of houses built by this method had dropped from 24 to 17 per cent by the beginning of 1984 , and is even less now . |
| 27 | Yet another dilemma was that a number of firms bundled software packages with their computers . |
| 28 | The significant factor was that a number of racial groups incorporating pre-Celtic and Celtic influences from France and Ireland were now showing signs of working together and establishing not merely tribal oppida but a virtual kingdom to pit against their rivals , Roman or otherwise . |
| 29 | The trouble was that a number of the birds were inside now and the constables , country boys , were conscientiously taking them out one by one before feeling around inside . |
| 30 | The idea was that the number of people engaged in this activity would increase dramatically with every action , thereby demonstrating the depth of feeling against nuclear weapons . |