Example sentences of "have a [adj] amount [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Berlin has a surprising amount of open space including the beautiful Grunewald Forest . |
| 2 | A library , like any other organisation , has a limited amount of manpower and money to carry out the activities required and expected of it ; training is just one way of ensuring that these resources are used in the most effective possible manner . |
| 3 | Every group has a limited amount of money available for arbitrage transactions ( possible due to self-imposed position limits ) . |
| 4 | Yes , this is another big problem I think you put that very well , that people forget , of course , that in clinical psychoan analysis the analyst has a vast amount of data , because the patient is going five times a week , or in Freud 's case , six times a week , for fifty minutes every day , six days a week , nine months of the year , often for several years and er , the , the sheer amount of data that the analyst gets , is absolutely immense . |
| 5 | The purpose of this chapter , however , is not to suggest clever ways of reducing your liability — although in fact almost everyone has a certain amount of scope to do so without in any way cheating on the system . |
| 6 | But Prince Adam has a certain amount of clout , as he has recently brought off a resounding coup and made a grand gesture . |
| 7 | and it implies that any institution which serves as a channel for the articulation and aggregation of group interest in centre-periphery relations has a certain amount of autonomy , however limited that may be . |
| 8 | Kicks , punches and elbow strikes can all be directed at the ball , and because it has a certain amount of give in it , practitioners can get a more or less accurate feeling of how a punch or kick will feel against a human body . |
| 9 | Every assignment has a certain amount of documentation attached to it . |
| 10 | But although Ralph 's business is being hit by the dispute , he has a certain amount of sympathy for his French counterparts . |
| 11 | That as it were milkman 's stool with three legs and each of them has a certain amount of power and it is a question of the adjustment of that power and it is not the of the power to my Right Honourable Friend , the Home Secretary and yet when things go wrong , and they do , in police forces and in local auth police authorities , what happens , people turn round to the Home Secretary and say what are you going to do about it . |
| 12 | He has a good amount of strong , grey hair . |
| 13 | The setting of macro is usually done via the zoom lever which has a short amount of extra travel at the wide-angle end . |
| 14 | The kitchen is quite beautifully designed and has a staggering amount of storage space , along with really small double sink and a washing up machine , and electric gadgets of every variety . |
| 15 | Each of the dealing firms has a different amount of stock but you can work out who has what by how keenly the prices compare with the best bid , best offer . |
| 16 | The guitar has a fair amount of natural sustain and the three Chandler pickups emphasise this , as well as producing a warm tone with enough cut to sound through . |
| 17 | She has a fair amount of control over her work ; ‘ being one 's own boss ’ was a phrase used by over half the sample . |
| 18 | One exemption not to be overlooked is the normal expenditure exemption under which a taxpayer who has a considerable amount of net income arising over the years is able to make gifts into a discretionary trust out of his income provided the expenditure is normal and that , after allowing for all transfers of value forming part of his normal expenditure , the transferor was left with sufficient income to maintain his normal standard of living ( IHTA 1984 , s21 ) . |
| 19 | In particular , the manager has a large amount of human capital invested in the firm which is difficult to hedge against so that he will be concerned about the possibility of very low earnings . |
| 20 | The resulting plants are likely to be better because there is minimal root disturbance , and each seedling has a generous amount of compost without competition — but the number of seedlings you can raise at once will be very limited , so use this method for plants like tomatoes , where you do n't need many , or those worth special treatment , such as bedding geraniums . |
| 21 | Dick has a generous amount of time and experience in taildraggers like Staggerwings and T-6s but he wanted Bill Dodds who had broad P-40 for the first time so that he could compare the aircraft with others that he 's flown . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 23 | The possession charge had been dropped because her daughter had only had a small amount on her . |
| 24 | ‘ We would have had a monumental amount of stuff anyway , even if we had n't had the business . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Schools have always had a fair amount of control over their resources — making decisions about accommodation , capitation and so on — and their decisions have normally been used in accordance with the identified needs of the institution , whether explicitly identified or not . |
| 28 | 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 ? ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ I do have a certain amount of work to do , ’ Alice said , ‘ but I can fit in with your plans , Harry . |