Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] the [adj] amount " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although John 's percentage cut depended on the total amount collected , it was known that he never harassed tax debtors , indeed , anyone with genuine difficulty in paying was likely to be entertained to lunch at Henrietta Villa by the sympathetic Comptroller . |
| 2 | The scrutiny would further reveal the utter confusion created by the phenomenal amount of — holy ’ writings or scriptures produced over the centuries . |
| 3 | The women who had this type of machine complained about the considerable amount of work still required of the housewife , and the mess on the kitchen floor to be cleared up afterwards . |
| 4 | Phil Farrand says that he 's spent the last two years building the car and has put hours of work into it … his machine runs on the same amount of power that drives a toaster or a hair dryer so much for ceremony … with the sun blazing down its time to race south … the track is the main Stewart Highway … |
| 5 | Indeed , according to Hamnett and Williams ( 1980 ) , gentrification or ‘ Chelseafication ’ was already proceeding rapidly in London during the 1970s — to the extent that the proportion of professional , managerial and intermediate non-manual workers in Inner London 's population increased by the same amount as for Greater London as a whole ( Hamnett , 1986 ) . |
| 6 | I have also enclosed an article to add to the considerable amount of reference material you should now be holding on this subject . |
| 7 | Lysosomes were then incubated at 37°C for 30 minutes with 50 µM oleic acid ; this concentration of oleic acid corresponded to the maximum amount of free fatty acid present in the liposome preparation . |
| 8 | Clearly it is unreasonable to assume that being one standard deviation above the mean in terms of any indicator corresponds to the same amount of deprivation . |
| 9 | He lay there for a minute scratching at the pitiful amount of hair on his chest and then he came over . |
| 10 | Specialists exist who undertake the drafting of the bill , usually for a commission calculated on the total amount of the bill or for a salary if employed by a large firm of solicitors . |
| 11 | The Bank of France pushed up its intervention rate by 0.75 per cent to 9.5 per cent and its five-to 10-day repurchase rate rose by the same amount to 10.25 per cent . |
| 12 | a ) increasing to £2,500 million , with power to increase by order to £3,000 million , the limit imposed on the aggregate amount of grants made under section 3 of the Coal Industry Act 1987 , or |
| 13 | In the constitution he goes on to elaborate : the hypothec tacitly covered all property received by the heir or trustee from the estate of the deceased ; the action for the hypothec lay for the same amount as the original actio in personam ; it extended only over property received from the estate and not over any personal property of the heir or trustee . |
| 14 | Internal growth accounted for the total amount of revenue increase , the company said . |
| 15 | Historical records showed that every time the quantity manufactured doubled , the cost per unit reduced by the same amount . |
| 16 | If central government cuts taxes , so that the income of a representative individual increased by the same amount , the increase in local spending should be identical . |