Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] the amount " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE WORLD 'S largest floating concrete dock was officially completed for the Royal Navy yesterday , as an admiral disputed the amount by which its costs had overrun . |
| 2 | The revenue repaid the amount of the tax and interest which accrued subsequent to the date of the decision of Nolan J. on 31 July 1987 , but refused to pay interest prior to that date contending that the principal sum could not be recovered as a debt under section 35A of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The vendor 's agent disclosed the amount of an offer made by one potential purchaser to another . |
| 5 | This has in effect reduced the amount of space devoted to Western art to 25% of what it was before . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The plan , which involved charging a flat-rate tax per kilo , represented an attempt to reduce the amount of waste dumped in landfill sites . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | How does the witness assess the amount of detail required ? |
| 11 | The Commission also aims to put pressure on industry to cut the amount of non-recyclable packaging . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This enables the exporter to price the contract to reflect the amount of Sterling he expects to receive . |
| 14 | The cut is part of a regular review system that adjusts funding to reflect the amount of interest in the programmes . |
| 15 | The tax price index measures the amount of gross income needed to maintain a level standard of living once taxes , national insurance and prices have been allowed for . |
| 16 | But when the milestone passed 123 days , breaking a long-standing record , terminal management boosted the amount to £5000 . |
| 17 | Hence measures the amount of stored energy and , sometimes called the imaginary part , is actually a real quantity measuring the amount of energy dissipated by the material . |
| 18 | This seems to be the way it is with men and women ; buckets of water from a well , one drawing deep while the other is empty , and so on , as if there is a physical law governing the amount of emotional nourishment available to a couple . |
| 19 | It is very important that you claim Poll Tax benefit to reduce the amount of your Poll Tax bill that you pay . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | As the cold progresses the amount of virus will drop . ’ |
| 22 | The project is part of a four-year plan to double the amount that the European Community spends on research and development . |
| 23 | If you do so you must repay to us immediately the amount by which your withdrawal exceeded the amount available and if you fail to do this we may debit any other account or accounts you may have . |
| 24 | Among these was a plan to cut the amount of personal income tax withheld by employers during the year . |
| 25 | By spreading the impactor 's mass over a wide area , fragmentation increases the amount of atmosphere intercepted and so enhances ablation and aerobraking ; hence a fragmenting object stops more abruptly , surrendering its kinetic energy more explosively , than does a non-fragmenting object . |
| 26 | So the B U category shows the amount of income support that er is being , that the deduction is being based on . |
| 27 | Specifically , Welsh measured the amount of neutral sodium gas in front of each star . |
| 28 | The curve measures the amount by which falls as the population of the locality increases . |
| 29 | The transfer will be at an under value if the market value of the benefit received by the purchaser exceeds the amount of value of any consideration given by the member . |
| 30 | It is also possible that in this continuum a tumour increases the amount of large cells and develops higher grades of malignancy transforming low grade into high grade as occurs in nodal counterparts . |