Example sentences of "amount of [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vast amount of literature covering religious history has created for scholars and others , opportunities not just for interesting reading , but for whole lifetimes ' careers of study . |
| 2 | The cycle is repeated , with the amount of DNA doubling each time |
| 3 | With regard to Easingwold , well of course Easingwold is at present outside the area of search , erm but again I do agree with what Mr Courcier has said , it would be a doubling the size of Easingwold , Easingwold is a small market town of high environmental quality , the existing form and pattern of development within Easingwold , erm exercise constraints over the scale of future development , the central area is of a certain size , of a certain quality , it 's got a certain amount of capacity to accept further development , and I do n't believe that a a erm grafting a fur further fourteen hundred houses could be fitted in to that existing infrastructure without serious harm . |
| 4 | There is a certain amount of evidence to support this contention , which does , however , show the importance of glacial control in the later stages . |
| 5 | " As for the evidence that cholera is spread in drinking water , there is , as Dr Dunstaple should be well aware , a considerable amount of evidence to support this view . |
| 6 | Logogens have thresholds : whenever the total amount of evidence exceeds this threshold level , the logogen ‘ fires ’ . |
| 7 | The government has , however , announced plans to introduce energy efficiency measures to reduce the amount of coal used each year by around 300 million tonnes . |
| 8 | The amount of fibre needed each day — 25 to 30mg-may already be a part of your diet . |
| 9 | But then it requires a fair amount of imagination to picture this place without seeing it . |
| 10 | Depending on the amount of heat involved this mechanism could lead to a significant uplift through thermal isostasy due to the heating of this unthinned lithosphere . |
| 11 | If you watch our top riders in action such as Ginny Leng , Mary Thomson , Mark Todd and the like , they demonstrate perfectly how to keep a horse in rhythm and balance with the correct amount of impulsion to jump each fence . |
| 12 | As the menopause approaches , there is a gradual decline in the amount of oestrogen produced each month . |