Example sentences of "[verb] have a [adj] amount of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking this kind of argument it might be more desirable to improve the lot of someone who has had a considerable amount of resources , but now in old age has very little . |
| 2 | I mean it came about because , and I wo n't name names , one member of staff for example has had an astonishing amount of time |
| 3 | This means that the ‘ brain' of the synth has to have a certain amount of waveform information from the guitar before it can determine an actual pitch and synthesise that information accordingly . |
| 4 | Devon Malcolm was not sparing himself on a pitch which was offering help to all the bowlers but Waugh seemed to have a ridiculous amount of time to ease him through the leg field twice in an over for two of his 10 boundaries . |
| 5 | ‘ Owen always seemed to have an enormous amount of mail at Stratford and would come straight from the stage door to the green room , clutching a handful of letters which he would clasp to his body in a special way which I had n't realised he did until I started drawing this picture and could n't work out what to do with the arms . |
| 6 | I can remember having a certain amount of resentment towards politics after that . ’ |
| 7 | I can remember having a certain amount of resentment towards politics . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We would have had a monumental amount of stuff anyway , even if we had n't had the business . ’ |
| 9 | Moving on , erm in te you know obviously you must have had a fair amount of c you said you had a fair amount of contact with erm tenants in the flats . |
| 10 | He seems to have a considerable amount of information about what your work implies . ’ |
| 11 | Solid features such as walls tend to have a smaller amount of magnetic minerals within them than the surrounding soil , and therefore give lower readings . |
| 12 | Kim , who had transformed Daewoo from a small textile-exporting company into the country 's fourth-largest conglomerate , was renowned as an entrepreneur and was known to have had a huge amount of personal wealth with which to have supported a presidential campaign . |
| 13 | ‘ I do have a certain amount of work to do , ’ Alice said , ‘ but I can fit in with your plans , Harry . |
| 14 | ‘ It seems to me , do correct me if I 'm wrong , but reading the weekly ‘ Jottings ’ one would say you 've had a certain amount of experience with women . ’ |
| 15 | erm , I would certainly stand up and and and er share everyone 's congratulations of what N C V O's done over the la past year , and certainly we 've had an enormous amount of help , particularly from the rural . |
| 16 | The thing that about Bill is , he does have an amazing amount of labour saving gear , like electric hedge shears trimmers , and erm |
| 17 | May I place it on record that I know that my hon. Friend is doing his best to ensure that south Dorset continues to have a large amount of Ministry of Defence employment ? |
| 18 | Councils have had an enormous amount of money through their hands , and have spent it in an equally enormous number of areas over the past 12 years . |
| 19 | But from the little things this Haverford Downs slips in about the ladies , would I be right in thinking he 's had a fair amount of experience with the sex ? ’ |
| 20 | There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed . |