Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] the amount " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he has any plans to increase the amount of earnings disregard before benefits for lone parents are affected . |
| 2 | Whilst it may possibly have been the intention to increase the amount in the new rates , no provision appears as yet to have been made . |
| 3 | If the complainant is still determined to become a plaintiff , the fact that a prompt apology has been made can be relied upon by the defendant to lower the amount of damages . |
| 4 | PILGRIMS to Walsingham are being asked by clergy to reduce the amount of Holy water they take from the Anglican shrine because of fears that the well will dry up . |
| 5 | The plan , which involved charging a flat-rate tax per kilo , represented an attempt to reduce the amount of waste dumped in landfill sites . |
| 6 | Fearing the worst , some depositors took steps to maximise the amount of the payments from the deposit protection fund . |
| 7 | The Department of Transport stressed that only certain stretches of the A66 would be closed at any one time in an attempt to minimise the amount of disruption and keep traffic moving . |
| 8 | The plaintiff succeeded in the county court in an action to recover the amount of his loss , and the decision was affirmed by the Court of Appeal . |
| 9 | He fears motorists are no longer held in high esteem and it was time the Government took steps to limit the amount of damages payable after a traffic accident , otherwise there would soon be no motorists left . |
| 10 | The Commission also aims to put pressure on industry to cut the amount of non-recyclable packaging . |
| 11 | One surprise measure in the Budget was the freeze on the ‘ earnings cap ’ which was introduced in the 1989 Budget to restrict the amount of salary that could be used for pension contributions for high earners . |
| 12 | This enables the exporter to price the contract to reflect the amount of Sterling he expects to receive . |
| 13 | The cut is part of a regular review system that adjusts funding to reflect the amount of interest in the programmes . |
| 14 | Article 31 ( also printed in bold ) should be used as S.7 of the Companies Act requires an unlimited company 's articles to state the amount of share capital with which it proposes to be registered . |
| 15 | It is very important that you claim Poll Tax benefit to reduce the amount of your Poll Tax bill that you pay . |
| 16 | ‘ The London Stock Exchange has sensibly indicated that it will view sympathetically applications by companies to reduce the amount of an issue which needs to be offered to the public . ’ |
| 17 | There were reports throughout September of violent anti-government protests in North Korea , apparently ignited by the government 's decision in July to reduce the amount of money in circulation and to devalue the won by around 70 per cent . |
| 18 | The paper was , however , limited in scope , since it was felt that there were major changes in higher education ahead — the James Committee on Teacher Education was sitting , for example — and the items most prominent in the document were a proposal to reduce the amount of paper work for renewals of course approval , and the possibility of delegating authority for the registration of MPhil students . |
| 19 | The project is part of a four-year plan to double the amount that the European Community spends on research and development . |
| 20 | Among these was a plan to cut the amount of personal income tax withheld by employers during the year . |
| 21 | But the DTI did not appreciate that the accountants ' study missed the central point of the Department 's inquiry : the auditors were not asked to answer the simple question of whether there was enough money in Barlow Clowes ' coffers to cover the amount owned to investors . |
| 22 | Underlying the whole market is , of course , the desire to reduce the amount of manual intervention required for the production of printed or published material . |
| 23 | Margaret then asked the meeting to consider the amount of work done by the Trainers — they too need help . |
| 24 | That leaves governments and companies with no incentive to reduce the amount of rubbish they create . |
| 25 | I accept that the Government have the right to determine the amount of money that they are prepared to give to local government . |
| 26 | The primary submission for Woolwich was that a subject who makes a payment in response to an unlawful demand for tax , or any similar demand , at once acquires a right to recover the amount so paid as money had and received to the subject 's use . |
| 27 | This may conflict with the vendor 's desire to minimise the amount of gain realised on the disposal of such assets to Newco , especially if the vendor is a company which has been bought and sold with no realisation of the underlying assets , which will therefore have a low historical cost . |
| 28 | An important point to remember is that a widow may be able to use her late husband 's NI contributions to boost the amount she receives . |
| 29 | The revival of small-scale farmhouses cheeses and the subsequent interest in these individual products has been brought about partly by the farmers ' need to cut the amount of milk that they send to the Milk Marketing Board and partly by the public 's demand for ‘ real ’ cheeses with traditional texture and flavour . |
| 30 | In Panamena Europea Navigacion ( Compania Limitada ) v Frederick Leyland & Co Ltd ( J Russell & Co ) [ 1947 ] AC 428 a surveyor was appointed by a ship 's owners to certify the amount to be paid to ship repairers , and held to have acted as an expert ( and as a " quasi-arbitrator " ) . |