Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] the amount " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The plan , which involved charging a flat-rate tax per kilo , represented an attempt to reduce the amount of waste dumped in landfill sites . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Commission also aims to put pressure on industry to cut the amount of non-recyclable packaging . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This enables the exporter to price the contract to reflect the amount of Sterling he expects to receive . |
| 9 | The cut is part of a regular review system that adjusts funding to reflect the amount of interest in the programmes . |
| 10 | It is very important that you claim Poll Tax benefit to reduce the amount of your Poll Tax bill that you pay . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The project is part of a four-year plan to double the amount that the European Community spends on research and development . |
| 13 | Among these was a plan to cut the amount of personal income tax withheld by employers during the year . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Margaret then asked the meeting to consider the amount of work done by the Trainers — they too need help . |
| 16 | That leaves governments and companies with no incentive to reduce the amount of rubbish they create . |
| 17 | I accept that the Government have the right to determine the amount of money that they are prepared to give to local government . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The right to ask a court to fix the amount they have to pay for services or works on the grounds that these have not been provided to a reasonable standard or at a reasonable cost . |
| 22 | a proof correction mark to reduce the amount of space between characters or words indicated as ( ) . |
| 23 | E-mail offers the chance to reduce the amount of paper moving between staff within RBGE , and the Strategic Plan for Information Services envisages us making increasing use of this facility for internal communication . |
| 24 | Certainly , if we use a ruler or some other simple measure to calculate the amount of speech devoted to each speaker in a typical course book , we find it balances out very nicely . |
| 25 | These achievements were reached despite a background of deepening nationwide recession and the Government 's decision to reduce the amount of funding available to TECs , particularly for adult training . |
| 26 | This enables the investigator to establish the amount of training being undertaken and for companies doing little or none , why this is the case . |
| 27 | This is achieved by switching in a new set of ‘ up ’ and ‘ down ’ compensation adjustments ( JR sets ) , or adding a control to reduce the amount of ‘ up ’ compensation ( Futaba sets ) . |
| 28 | As a County Council we have a commitment to reduce the amount of waste produced in the County , the building waste which includes spoil and rubble , forms around fifty per cent of the total waste production . |
| 29 | Put briefly and simply what is required is to write a formula that will allocate the time spent to the appropriate project column where it is then multiplied by the relevant charging rate to show the amount of money due from the client . |
| 30 | Probably , at the present day , such service on such request would have raised a promise by implication to pay what it was worth , and the subsequent promise of a sum certain would have been evidence for the jury to fix the amount . ’ |