Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [art] [adj] amount " in BNC.

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1 Can I ask therefore why the Eastern Arts of appraisal report of nineteen eighty-six a major appraisal costing a huge amount of Eastern Arts money was not considered and and presented across .
2 During the next 15 minute period a 5 ml bolus containing a known amount of sodium bicarbonate ( 100 , 200 , 500 , or 1000 µmol ) was infused slowly and the total amount of bicarbonate determined by dilution of [ 3 H ] PEG and pH and pCO 2 of oesophageal aspirates .
3 This presents no problem if the seller has a certificate or certificates representing the precise amount sold to a single buyer .
4 A system might be a beaker containing a known amount of water or it might be a heat exchanger used in a chemical plant .
5 Included are appendices containing a certain amount of relatively sophisticated economic analysis — diagrams and algebra .
6 Whereas an adult can fairly ‘ comfortably ’ lose a pint of blood , a child losing the same amount may be drained of as much as a third or even half of her total supply .
7 Thus it can not be stressed too strongly that the process of transforming publicly available information artefacts into information that is directly usable with minimal resource expenditure by the strategic decision maker is almost always a very difficult and demanding job requiring a considerable amount of intelligence , training and expertise .
8 ‘ I would prefer to see the medical charities emphasizing the large amount of research they sponsor into alternatives to the use of animals , rather than making a big fuss out of this ’ , says Michael Balls , chairman of the trustees of the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments , and until recently professor of medical cell biology at the University of Nottingham .
9 However , a random file generally occupies more space than a serial file holding the same amount of data because the records must be a fixed length and some of the records will be empty .
10 The company is also said to be having difficulty moving a significant amount of lower-end Sparcstation series 10s out of the channel and into end-user sites .
11 The company is also reportedly having difficulty moving a significant amount of lower-end series 10s out of the channel and into end-user sites .
12 Antibody incubations were done in TTBS overnight at 4°C and control strips were similarly incubated in TTBS containing an equivalent amount of protein from normal rabbit serum .
13 The aim should be to use clear and attractive signs containing the minimum amount of information to enable the user to find his way or to be able to use a given tool or resource .
14 Brain tissue was placed on cryostat cork discs using a small amount of embedding medium ( OCT compound , Miles ) .
15 Undercutting , polishing and pitting up to about 3 m ( 10 ft ) confirms that wind has played at least an important part in their development , while their restriction to areas of erodible sandstone providing a large amount of material for sand blasting also strongly suggests the part played by the wind .
16 Because of the way that the Moon moves in its orbit around the Earth , its place of rising on the horizon varies a little , each night moving a tiny amount further north until its position of rising seems to come to a halt ( a standstill ) before moving back southwards again .
17 I was expecting the usual French style of service , with an ice-bucket and a carafe of chilled water , and two glasses containing a small amount of Pernod at the bottom .
18 A partner or sole trader paying Schedule D income tax is able to claim more by way of expenses and allowances against income than a Schedule E person earning the same amount .
19 Now plug the old holes with the correct size dowels using a small amount of PVA wood glue .
20 An example might be to focus on car number plates and seeing if you can make a word containing all the letters of the plate number , or in a supermarket look out for all items costing a particular amount of money , or in a crowded room noting the number of people with blue eyes .
21 When a firm sells something , all the production costs should be inside the box with the consumer paying the full amount that it has cost to make the product .
22 Indexed files take a little longer to access than random files and it is necessary to have a separate index file , but they are generally the best space/speed compromise for files holding a large amount of data .
23 In spite of its quantitative sound , political equality never means having an equal amount of any chosen characteristic .
24 The last Jackson tour saw Jennifer doing a considerable amount of running around the stage …
25 The first method is to take out two separate policies that cover half the loan amount ( this can be stretched so that the higher earner of the two parties has a policy covering a greater amount ) .
26 They snatched two bags containing a large amount of cash and ran off to a waiting a white Vauxhall Nova GTE , registration number F235 BKM .
27 The document then put forward three possible options : the setting up of a small central body , along the lines of Model A in the English Green Paper , which would have a majority of its membership from Welsh local authorities ; a Model B type central body which would disburse government funds in Wales and would take from local authority control the colleges providing a significant amount of higher education , including teacher training ; and the direct association in Wales of the solution adopted in England through the setting up of a Welsh sub-committee of the main organization .
28 This will mean that if your claim is successful we will be able to send out your first bill showing the reduced amount .
29 A screen which will display clearly at least 80 characters per line and lower- as well as upper-case letters , and a full keyboard with a number of special purpose keys will be advisable for word processing A large amount of internal memory , a fast processor and high capacity external storage will be required for database applications , assuming that you have a fairly large number of records to be accommodated .
30 Instead of the present fixed ceilings on grants , Responsible Bodies ‘ should each be given an allocation representing the maximum amount of grant available for the year , limited to 75% of the teaching costs , after consideration of the quality and standards of work being done by the responsible body , as well as its proposed programme , the needs of the region in which it operates and the activities of other interested bodies in the region ’ ( Recommendations 5 , 6 ) .
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