Example sentences of "you have [verb] a [adj] amount " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It seems to me , do correct me if I 'm wrong , but reading the weekly ‘ Jottings ’ one would say you 've had a certain amount of experience with women . ’ |
| 2 | You 've got a tremendous amount to for you , not for me to go through with you , |
| 3 | You 've got a reasonable amount have n't ya ? |
| 4 | For example , if one has found out something about a course , about what 's happening on it , how well the pupils are learning , how interested they are in it and what different members of staff think of its value and so on , then you 've got a certain amount of evidence about it . |
| 5 | But you was with it all the War , even before the War , and then when the War came , and of course you 've got a fair amount when the War came on you see . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes I know , sir , but … ‘ … but you 've shown a certain amount of keenness this last week or two , so … |
| 7 | Finally , remember that you had to put a considerable amount of effort into learning the skills that you have today . |
| 8 | Well I thought you had to get a certain amount |
| 9 | You have , yeah , you have to wait at least you have wait a certain amount of years . |
| 10 | Indeed , if you have followed through all the exercises in this book , you have done a substantial amount of work . |
| 11 | These will vary from Compact to Compact but you will be expected to show : a ) that your attendance and punctuality have been consistently good , b ) that you can work reliably at school , c ) that you have spent a specific amount of time on Work Experience , d ) that you have a positive sense of responsibility to your school and the wider community . |
| 12 | There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed . |