Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [art] [adj] amount " in BNC.
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| 1 | The key to a good use is that it brings people to the building who value it for its beauty and appreciate and enjoy its surroundings — not simply people who regard it as an opportunity to acquire a large amount of cheap floor space . |
| 2 | ( Note , though , that once prices have risen , people will need more money to conduct the same amount of transactions . ) |
| 3 | Maria made the decision to sacrifice a certain amount of advertising revenue and turn the radio station into a temporary community service , as other stations and television channels were doing , monitoring the situation and providing updates , broadcasting official government warnings and advice to those districts likely to be affected by after-shocks and urging their local listenership to donate blood against a possible depletion of existing supplies . |
| 4 | Yesterday Sudbury chairman Iain Hook said the club 's case was based on the fact the division four clubs had a greater need for support as a result of their geographical locations and inability to attract the same amount of outside backing as top clubs . |
| 5 | In general , then , a bank 's highest yielding assets tend to be illiquid — for example , a large proportion of advances to customers , though profitable , are illiquid ; similarly , equities are illiquid in that any attempt to sell a large amount of stock would depress stock prices and cause capital losses . |
| 6 | First , it is the only style that was invented by a woman ; and second , it requires only the minimum exertion of force to do the maximum amount of work . |
| 7 | We measured the ability of the oesophagus to clear a given amount of acid ; patients were allowed to swallow during and after acid perfusion . |
| 8 | One of the interesting things that I do is go every so often and talk to groups of British civil servants who are going to spend some of them a week some of them up to six weeks on an exchange visit erm with the French civil service , in an attempt to learn a certain amount erm about how the system works , both so that they will be able to understand more easily when it comes to joint erm ventures , joint matters , joint policies , what the other side is doing and the pressures within which it 's operating , and also so that sometimes they may be able to learn things , and pick up useful tips and hints about the way to handle a particular problem . |
| 9 | His intention to repay the equivalent amount was relevant to dishonesty , not to the intention permanently to deprive . |
| 10 | Some British steel factories , using identical machinery to our foreign competitors , use up to 40% more labour to produce the equivalent amount of steel . |
| 11 | To provide everyone with a voucher that can be used instead of money to purchase a minimum amount of that particular service . |
| 12 | It 's the legacy of the Irish Football Association 's promotion , whereby fans buying tickets for last night 's Latvia game were given the opportunity to purchase a similar amount for the Republic of Ireland 's visit in November . |
| 13 | Faced with a pressing requirement to absorb a great amount of educational , legal and procedural information , governors have an obvious and urgent need for training . |
| 14 | She was told that it was the law to pay the full amount and she must pay it in full , and her answer was that it was the law last year that everyone should pay their own bills , and what happened to them ? |
| 15 | In addition to these plans , each of which would be appropriate for different zones , there should be an overall plan to limit the total amount of traffic in the city as a whole . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I have elsewhere tried to show ( Dignan , 1983 ) that as far as the peace-tax issue itself is concerned the principle of equal concern and respect does generate a right to divert an appropriate amount of income tax from military to peaceful expenditure . |
| 18 | The government 's approval of a £30 million road tunnel under the Devil 's Punchbowl , an important Surrey wildlife site and beauty spot , has fuelled controversy over its refusal to spend a smaller amount on a similar scheme in Oxleas Wood , London , which is scheduled for destruction by a new motorway [ see ED 68 ] . |
| 19 | And with that she went off to the shop to collect the miserable amount of provisions that were due . |
| 20 | The Grand Junction , he told them , had entered into minimum toll agreements with the Leicestershire Navigation , the Loughborough Navigation and the Erewash Canal , but there had been insufficient traffic to meet the full amount . |
| 21 | You can take your endowment loan with you when you move , topping up the policy to cover the extra amount . |
| 22 | Of course it is necessary for the prospective student to possess a reasonable amount of intelligence as well as a genuine desire to help others . |
| 23 | Secondly , Panzer has noticed solution forms at the base of several small isolated rocks , which would not have sufficient surface area to allow a large amount of surface water to collect . |
| 24 | Again , this design gives it only vague impressions of light and shade , but it allows the ostracod to collect a phenomenal amount of the illumination available in its dimly lit environment . |
| 25 | In Karnataka at least 16 people , mostly Tamils , were reported killed in violent incidents on Dec. 11-13 after the Cauvary [ River ] Water Dispute Tribunal ordered the state to allocate a significant amount of water annually to Tamil Nadu . |
| 26 | Perpetual debt is debt in respect of which the issuer has neither the right nor the obligation to repay the principal amount of the debt . |
| 27 | To prevent a heavy landing as the airbrakes are opened , a backward movement is needed on the stick to increase the wing 's angle of attack to maintain the same amount of lift as before . |
| 28 | Among the peers identified by the parliamentary writer Andrew Roth as voting in favour of a measure which would oblige a labourer to pay the same amount of tax as a millionaire were the Duke of Buccleuch , the biggest landowner in Europe , the beef magnate Lord Vestey , another of the richest men in Britain , and the eighty-three-year-old Marquis of Bath , of the Longleat Estate . |
| 29 | Home-made compost is wonderful , but you will need a lot of space to make the necessary amount . |
| 30 | Emily willed her daughter to show the right amount of gratitude , she prayed that the girl would n't take it for granted . |