Example sentences of "amount of [noun sg] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We often need to calculate square footage , or area , in everyday life — eg how much carpet to buy for a room , the amount of turf needed for a new lawn , the size of a new kitchen … |
| 2 | For example , each model sees the amount of legitimacy conferred upon a dispute as influencing the way it is handled by the police ; and there is similar agreement that deep-seated ‘ ideological issues ’ are more commonly associated with disorder than more mundane ‘ material issues ’ . |
| 3 | A The type and amount of equipment required for a coldwater aquarium will depend very much on how complex you wish the system to be and how much you wish to spend . |
| 4 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 5 | Firemen from Thornaby and Stockton swilled away an amount of petrol leaking from a car in Yarm Street , Stockton . |
| 6 | The amount of colour developed during a fixed time is proportional to the tissue type plasminogen activator activity in the sample . |
| 7 | A further problem comes in deciding how to interpret differences in the amount of activity elicited by a set of conditions . |
| 8 | For example , the amount of damage done in a fire correlates with the number of fire engines that attend . |
| 9 | The amount of money received for a service rendered is not dependent upon who you are , but upon the abstract relations within which the service is performed , for example as wage labour . |
| 10 | A far broader question needs to be asked : Do we need this incredible amount of money spent on a minority culture when television in Scotland is so appalling in the first place ? |
| 11 | Grasses have a tendency to ‘ winter burn ’ more or less in proportion to the amount of herbage standing in a field at the onset of frosty weather . |
| 12 | Certain value added tax cases would tend to indicate that the amount of benefit obtained by a taxpayer if the trustees allow him the use of a Ming Vase would equate to the sort of rent which they could have received if they had let the vase with appropriate adjustments being made for insurance , agreeing to house the vase , etc . |
| 13 | But after death , the amount of radiocarbon decreases at a fixed rate : it halves every 5730 years . |
| 14 | Tests showed the pills cut the amount of fat absorbed from a meal by up to 35 per cent . |
| 15 | The cost of recharging the Super Dustbuster is minimal : it uses less than half the amount of electricity used by a light bulb , so it 's good value for money as well as being environmentally friendly . |
| 16 | Obviously the order in which the words are presented to the dawg building algorithm is important in order to keep the amount of memory used to a minimum . |
| 17 | Consequently the amount of memory required for a dawg will also vary . |
| 18 | Organisational authority refers to the scope and amount of discretion given to a person to make decisions , by virtue of the position he or she holds in the organisation . |
| 19 | It is through the ‘ windows ’ that survive that we can glean the evidence necessary to permit environmental reconstruction and , necessarily , the amount of evidence surviving in a particular area will depend upon the age of the landscape and the subsequent changes to which the landscape has been subjected . |
| 20 | The Second Law states that the amount of energy obtained from a system is always less than the amount absorbed , so it eventually ‘ runs out of steam ’ . |
| 21 | The carrot for operators is that electric boats are much cheaper to run , using one fifth the amount of energy used by a diesel-driven boat of equivalent size . |
| 22 | At present , there is no legal limit to the amount of alcohol allowed in a beverage describing itself as " Low Alcohol " . |
| 23 | Collaboration and satisfaction regarding decisions were measured using a specially developed instrument which defined collaboration and asked a single global question about the amount of collaboration involved in a specific decision . |
| 24 | Well if the definition of salinity is the amount of salt dissolved in a particular volume of water , perhaps the logical way to do it is simply to take a volume of water and evaporate it and weigh the amount of salt that 's left so that might be the simplest approach . |
| 25 | Each Landsat MSS measurement is proportional to the amount of light reflected from a ground area ( called a pixel , for picture element ) with a side-length of 79 m . |
| 26 | Today , the amount of information contained on a pair of floppy disks could fill an average-size book . |
| 27 | This variation is due to the amount of interest generated by a particular ritual among members of distant settlements . |
| 28 | They can alter the amount of neurotransmitter released by a neurone , mimic the neurotransmitter at the receptor site ( agonists ) , block receptors for a certain neurotransmitter ( antagonists ) , block reuptake of a neurotransmitter from the synapse , affect electrical conduction in the axon , inhibit biosynthesis of a neurotransmitter , or inhibit the breakdown of the neurotransmitter by enzymes . |
| 29 | These machines generally have a well known soil load and the appropriate amount of sanitiser used on a regular basis will give the required degree of protection against bacteria . |
| 30 | It was not until 1836 that it became possible to measure the amount of sugar left in a wine after the first fermentation , when Professor Francois of Châlons-sur-Marne published his Nouvelles observations sur la fermentation de vin en bouteilles , suivies d'un procédé pour reconnaître la quantité de sucre contenu dans le vin immédiatement avant tirage . |