Example sentences of "amount [prep] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Arrhenius did not know was that there is a large amount of X-radiation washing about in space , and to this his hypothetical spores would certainly have been vulnerable . |
| 2 | The amount of income left over after deduction of this taxation is known as disposable income . |
| 3 | The process will continue , and with each stage the amount of income passed on to others in the circular flow will be reduced by leakages of taxation , saving , and imports . |
| 4 | They included cutting the amount of gold tied up in the refining circuit , reducing batches of work in progress in colours and a new costing system to enable product rationalisation in Jewellery . |
| 5 | Our most significant contract , at Teesside for Enron Power , is now nearing completion and the amount of work carried out on this project under extremely difficult conditions is a credit to all concerned . |
| 6 | An amazing amount of work carried out by the three members of the pest control team , with some additional help with larger jobs during the summer period . |
| 7 | Looking for them in BMA House only emphasises the juniors ' ignorance of the enormous amount of work put in on their behalf by all sections of the profession . |
| 8 | The amount of money forked out in subsidies to loss-making state enterprises was 57 billion yuan . |
| 9 | But until you consider the amount of money tied up in County Farms , and the return it gives us , and the , the subsidy if you like of so few people , and you think that school ca n't have toilets and things like that , then these should all go into the decision making melting pot , and this council should not blind itself to the various options that there could be , and in those circumstances Mr I think should be allowed to explore the possibilities of the market . |
| 10 | The amount of money put in by the public . |
| 11 | Thus , the ‘ equation ’ is really an identity which must always be true : it tells us only that the total amount of money handed over in transactions is equal to the value of what is sold . |
| 12 | As the throng of workers laughed and joked , tucking into the vast amount of food laid out before them , Annie 's mind went back to other Mell Suppers and not for the first time , she reflected on how her family had dwindled . |
| 13 | The total amount of time taken up in such social exchanges or interactions in this sample is in fact relatively small : a division of housewives into three groups according to the proportion of work time thus occupied — less than twenty-five per cent , between twenty-five and fifty per cent , more than fifty per cent — revealed the majority of women to be in the first group ; there was no significant relationship with work satisfaction patterns . |
| 14 | The amount of time spent out of doors is so dependent upon the weather that children are bound to be aware of changes and some effects of sun , wind , rain and snow . |
| 15 | The corals were presumably killed off in glacial periods by emersion , by the decrease in sea temperature and by the increased amount of mud stirred up by the lowered sea level . |
| 16 | Beyond a certain point however , the amount of improvement tailed off with increase in context . |
| 17 | A written answer disclosed the amount of tax written off in each of the last five years for which statistics are available : 1987 , £333 million ; 1988 , £629 million ; 1989 , £530 million ; 1990 , £568 million ; and 1991 , £883 million . |
| 18 | Following on from this the amount of research carried out into MT was seriously reduced , although there has been some renewed interest ( e.g. SYSTRAN ( Toma , 1977 ) and EUROTRA ( Raw et al , 1988 ) ) . |
| 19 | This is very much a ‘ people ’ story and concentrates on the day-to-day happenings in The Mob , with a fair amount of humour thrown in for good measure . |
| 20 | The first of these sets the amount of effect coming in from the JMP 's effects loop — a really good idea and all amps should have this in some form . |
| 21 | There 's a lot of training and safety instruction a huge amount of effort put in by the Civil Aviation Authority amongst others who explain to pilots and bring safety considerations to the forefront . |
| 22 | The amount of cortex given over to the central as opposed to the peripheral visual field can differ , as can the size of receptive fields of cells within the area . |