Example sentences of "amount of [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , the amount of Creole used in any interaction is the subject of ongoing negotiation among the parties themselves . |
| 2 | ‘ The Civic Theatre and the ESC have agreed to wait until the end of the week 's performances and then to evaluate the amount of income taken before any further discussions take place , ’ he said . |
| 3 | This has in effect reduced the amount of space devoted to Western art to 25% of what it was before . |
| 4 | Whilst its coverage of public affairs ‘ news ’ was not comparable to the Daily Mirror — the amount of space devoted to such news declined between 1927 and 1937 by 59 square inches or 5% — that decline is one of 19% if one assumes that that content should have expanded in line with the expansion of total editorial space . |
| 5 | They are presented in the order of the amount of space devoted to each court case and the immediate aftermath . |
| 6 | The data are as shown in Table 4.4 Thus , whereas total editorial space between 1927 and 1937 increased by 48% ( from 2124 to 3138 square inches ) and the ‘ news ’ content of the paper increased by 81% ( from 634 to 1 145 square inches ) , the amount of space devoted to public affairs ‘ news ’ declined by 9% ( from 101 to 92 square inches ) . |
| 7 | The second fragment ( 23kb ) detected by the 680-bp probe is from an unrelated locus ( see Fig. 3 legend ) and serves as a control for the amount of DNA loaded in this experiment as it is not deleted . |
| 8 | However , one local authority should not receive double the amount of grant received by another only a few miles away for the provision of exactly the same level of service , which is the case at the moment . |
| 9 | Acid output was calculated by allowing for the amount of juice produced in each time interval , and was expressed as mEq/h . |
| 10 | Statistics quoted at length in UNEP 1982 have shown the amount of land converted into lower classes of production ( relative to previous periods ) by soil degradation and erosion . |
| 11 | The Leicestershire farms had a considerable amount of land rented on short-term leases : this land was being used at the time of the survey but might not be available in future years . |
| 12 | It is thus not surprising that our period saw an increase in the amount of land put to agricultural use , not to mention the even greater increase in output through improved productivity . |
| 13 | In the last day or two , I have had some very positive comments about it and am most grateful for the amount of work done by all concerned . |
| 14 | There 's been a more limited but still a fairly substantial amount of work done in this country , and there has been nothing at all , we 've had done locally . |
| 15 | An appropriate calculation or formula for the amount of contingency required at any particular time should be agreed at the same time that the initial sire of the contingency is determined . |
| 16 | When you 've got an engine , erm , you Let's say we 've got an engine with a fixed amount of petrol going in all the time . |
| 17 | Perhaps the greatest amount of damage done to deaf centres in a short span of time occurred in the Baedeker Raids of May 1942 in South-West England . |
| 18 | If the number of fire engines which turned up was correlated with the amount of damage done at those fires , a positive relationship would probably be discovered . |
| 19 | For example , they might be asked to restrict the amount of credit granted to private individuals for consumption , or to property speculators . |
| 20 | Mr Major and Mr Heseltine had both agreed that the amount of money raised by local government had to be slashed ; that capping of council spending should stay ; and that some form of property tax was inevitable . |
| 21 | Of course last year that did n't happen and last year hidden away in the first part of the er the budget papers was this cut in the amount of money going to each pupil erm in education in secondary school , so this year we are not doing that we 're going to meet the full cost of so in that sense the formula will be unchanged , and of course there 's growth er later in the budget and both primary and secondary schools in terms delegated budgets . |
| 22 | Graham Greene fairly remarked of the amorphous string of sequences that made up Rembrandt that ‘ no amount of money spent on expensive sets , on careful photography , will atone for the lack of a storyline , the continuity and drive of a well-constructed plot . ’ |
| 23 | Cuts in the amount of money spent on direct services to patients as opposed to buildings mean that in wards where few staff members care for a large number of patients standards of care fall well below tolerable levels . |
| 24 | Over the last few years I have also complained to the Press Council on a number of occasions , about various newspapers using such terms as ‘ Gay Plague ’ , or saying that the disease was spread by whispered conversations , or for exaggerating the amount of money spent by local authorities on gay issues . |
| 25 | Medicine differs from many other professions , however , in the huge amount of teaching expected from all of its practitioners . |
| 26 | You want , want to get the same amount , I mean we 've got a certain amount of water coming through that pipe , |
| 27 | By 1988 , the Government had already made five changes to the tapers , each of which reduced the amount of benefit paid to those whose incomes are above the needs allowance level . |
| 28 | The government 's Green Paper on housing provided data which showed that the average amount of subsidy received by all local authority tenants , including rent rebates , was £69 in 1972–3 and £214 in 1975–6 ; income tax relief per mortgage was £76 and £174 respectively . |
| 29 | In the matter of misguided teaching , it may well be asked to what extent the missionaries of the western world have contributed to the immense amount of suffering endured by underdeveloped peoples . |
| 30 | That line of analysis tends to indicate that when one is interpreting s740(3) and the meaning of the expression " relevant income " ( meaning " income which can directly or indirectly be used for providing a benefit for an individual or for enabling a benefit to be provided for him " ) the taxpayer may be having the benefit of a slightly generous interpretation if the Revenue permit , in any year in which income arises , the amount of the relevant income in that year to be reduced by the amount of expenditure incurred in that year . |