Example sentences of "do a [adj] amount " in BNC.
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| 1 | has done a tremendous amount of meticulous research on these valuable records . |
| 2 | He was the ‘ guiding light ’ who ‘ has done a tremendous amount of good work for the club ; he has gained the confidence of everyone ’ . |
| 3 | For whose efforts on behalf of the fund I I really do thank them and I 'd like to make a special thanks to Lady Chandler , Lucy stepped into the breach as acting chair about a year ago and since I was elected has done a tremendous amount to help me settle in quickly and I hope effectively . |
| 4 | Yes , the Germans have always had gigantic and very refined apparatus and have done a vast amount of hard work . |
| 5 | He had done a reasonable amount of pilot work , firing for some of the older shunt link drivers and had also fired on the local ‘ pick-up ’ , but this at last was the real thing . |
| 6 | Indeed , if you have followed through all the exercises in this book , you have done a substantial amount of work . |
| 7 | Mr. Dobson : Setting aside the Lord President 's snide references to the London food commission , which has done a considerable amount of good work , I ask him whether , instead of being so complacent , he would be prepared to undertake a thoughtful and organised survey of the views of Hon. Members and of the other people who have to use the cafeterias in this place |
| 8 | At the Confederation of British Industry , we have already done a large amount of research into the sources of international competitiveness , and we now welcome the interest that the Government is showing in some of our conclusions . |
| 9 | Many category 2 queries , however , are from people who have done a fair amount of ‘ homework ’ , but have been unable to find out all they would like to know , or wish to check that they have made the right interpretation of their reading . |
| 10 | Julia , who had done a fair amount of riding in Australia , chuckled to herself . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've done a fair amount of work down here in the south of France , mostly on the Cap Ferrat . |
| 12 | Over the past few days he had fished a little with Burkett , been to Crosthwaite Church , laid a light siege to the maid Christine , cast out a few nightlines about the town and done a calculated amount of promenading . |
| 13 | You can either do it per pound or you can do a total amount in the end |
| 14 | In some cases , however , estate agents will do a certain amount of advertising free of charge . |
| 15 | But they still did do a certain amount of er the stock in trade course the bins for g for transporting stuff in and all like that . |
| 16 | Yeah and er you know we can do a certain amount but I think if you went away from that you can go away from it a little bit but I think if you went too much away the people that you have and and our audience when we 've got them you know , they tend to stay with us you know they do n't change like the the youngsters and when we started off first you know our audience were mainly over forty five fifty plus really and now they 're down to we 're getting you know loads of of people in their twenties and in their teens and even down to kids like last night , five and six years old . |
| 17 | Controlling risk is still the first priority and they can do a substantial amount themselves . |
| 18 | Since no scientist was prepared to sit down and do a comparable amount of research in order to demolish a theory which seemed so patently to be a load of rubbish , they all simply cried ‘ Rubbish ! ’ and stamped their feet . |
| 19 | See you should do a fair amount of . |
| 20 | As we try to decide what to eat , we notice that Denice has managed to do a certain amount of major structural damage to her menu , resulting to the pages ' coming out of the middle . |
| 21 | Until 1936 he had also continued to do a certain amount of coaching for the Victoria Tutorial College . |
| 22 | But , the major ones , I mean the engineer ones used to levy all firms two and half percent and therefore , there is an incentive to do a certain amount of training itself , and the finance obviously was self-generation itself . |
| 23 | University students of all kinds , not just those studying archaeology , often participate in excavations in vacations , and some university archaeology departments require their students to do a certain amount of practical work , on site or in a museum , as part of their course work . |
| 24 | that almost regardless of the number , you 've actually got to do a certain amount |
| 25 | If you listen sometimes to speeches made by the Royal Family now , they are not necessarily to my mind and er this is this difficulty of the sort of humanity and effemininity of the Duchess of York and the Princess of Wales who tried I think , both of them , to do a phenomenal amount of public work with different levels of success and different levels of coverage . |
| 26 | Unlike Rousettus , which can see very well and which uses unmodified relatively low-pitched sounds to do a modest amount of echolocation to supplement its good vision , the smaller bats appear to be technically highly advanced echo-machines . |
| 27 | Once he had decided to write the Guide Book he realised he would have to do a considerable amount of writing and although he never felt he was a good writer , his unwavering intent carried him through . |
| 28 | I still think maybe maybe we should n't be doing as much , and we should d be doing a small amount better . |
| 29 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |
| 30 | And so , you know , on the business desk you might have three teams and the first team is only doing the first page and the opinion and the second team is doing a large amount of financial news and the third team is doing the company news , and then the erm there 's a graphics person who 's working on charts and stuff . |