Example sentences of "it [vb -s] a [adj] amount " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has a quiet rural grace about it and , particularly in this area where gabled houses went on being built well into the eighteenth century , it displays a certain amount of daring . |
| 2 | Erm it produces a certain amount of , it can produce a maximum of torque , a certain amount of force a go-kart engine . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It contains a great amount of statistical evidence and pictures and models . |
| 5 | The writing on a carton of orange juice may tell you that it contains a certain amount of vitamin C — but did you know that the vitamin C content starts to decrease from the moment the carton is opened ? |
| 6 | It contains a huge amount of such data including amongst many other surveys and statistics , the 1981 National Census , 500 maps , 22,000 photographs , 1,500 items of text in the form of essays and published articles and , on side two of the disc , about an hour of video recording some of the events of 1986 . |
| 7 | seems to have got most of his information about Sarah from the data held at her local Family Health Services Authority in Bristol , registered under the data protection act , it holds a large amount of information on patients within its area including the name and address of a patient 's doctor . |
| 8 | The difference between Fresco and other toolkits like X-Windows ' XT intrinsics is that being object-oriented , it uses a small amount of memory , says Sternlicht . |
| 9 | As a veritable web of gender contradictions , it says a tremendous amount about Suede as artists . |
| 10 | So I 've looked after myself but I 've worked hard as well because I like a certain lifestyle and it costs a fair amount to sustain . |
| 11 | It prefers a fair amount of nutritious detritus . |
| 12 | As this is a plant usually found in ditches , rice-fields and slow-moving water-courses such as irrigation canals , it prefers a fair amount of mud or clay . |
| 13 | Though many may wonder about the destructive theory , it requires a moderate amount of mathematical training to develop the conservation laws . |
| 14 | Manufacturing it requires a prohibitive amount of electricity , unless the electricity comes from cheap renewable sources , like photo-voltaic cells in the Sahara , where the sunlight is guaranteed even if the water to make the hydrogen is not . |
| 15 | This may not be downright evil , but in the absence of potential disbarments ( like possibly being a rubber doll ) it requires a considerable amount of bad faith . |
| 16 | But then it requires a fair amount of imagination to picture this place without seeing it . |
| 17 | A valve , or vacuum tube , looks like a typical electric light bulb , it requires a large amount of power for its operation , generates a considerable amount of heat and is generally found to be unreliable in operation . |
| 18 | It takes a tremendous amount of organisation . ’ |
| 19 | A c.c.d. delay line provides a delay because it takes a certain amount of time for each input sample to be passed along the chain of capacitors and to finally emerge at the output . |
| 20 | But I 'm not saying that people are incompetent , but it takes a certain amount |
| 21 | Therefore , as it takes a considerable amount of time to scan the tapes looking for rarely occurring variants , we have selected one particular variable of this kind , which we call meat/mate , and have studied this quantitatively outside the main projects in a different way . |
| 22 | It takes a considerable amount of time to conduct an audit covering the points mentioned above , and this time is expensive in labour costs . |
| 23 | It keeps the rain out , it lets a certain amount of light in and it 's dirt cheap . |