Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [art] [adj] amount " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Publications Officer is handling an increasing amount of such material , and preparing it to increasingly high technical specifications . |
| 2 | It 's been sitting on the forecourt of a garage just outside Ross on Wye for the past few weeks , and is gaining a considerable amount of interest from passers by … but as yet no one is very serious about buying it . |
| 3 | USL is seeking an unstipulated amount of actual and compensatory damages from UC Berkeley as well as legal fees . |
| 4 | Sun is paying an undisclosed amount towards the cost of the project , thereby fulfilling some of its operating obligations down under . |
| 5 | And so , you know , on the business desk you might have three teams and the first team is only doing the first page and the opinion and the second team is doing a large amount of financial news and the third team is doing the company news , and then the erm there 's a graphics person who 's working on charts and stuff . |
| 6 | Timber trade world-wide is doing an enormous amount of work already to make sure that sustainable timber is supplied , and the horror stories are slowly going away , and a lot of people now do not buy timber in this country , from those countries who 've got a bad track record , but are buying from countries like Denmark and Sweden , where it 's a national law on their forestry policy . |
| 7 | DENIS Winston Healey is having a certain amount of characteristically mischievous fun with journalists at the moment , on the question of whether he will or will not stand at the next election . |
| 8 | The key to successful distribution is having the right amount no more no less . |
| 9 | Thus Vaughan is assuming a certain amount of shared knowledge on the part of the reader ; but because we can not , naturally , see things from the perspective of his origo , he must also assist the reader in the assignment of indexical or deictic meanings . |
| 10 | I would understand it if the Minister were saying merely that he is reorganising the same amount of resources , but he has cut resources . |
| 11 | The first is that the author , a lifeboat supporter , is donating a substantial amount of the cover price to RNLI funds , and the second is that there are links in the text with the lifeboat service , more particularly in the section dealing with the aircraft 's crashes in the sea . |
| 12 | The United States is reviewing the small amount of aid — about $55m a year — it gives its erstwhile friend . |
| 13 | This is the deep sleep level , at which the unconscious mind is obtaining the greatest amount of real rest . |
| 14 | The Home Secretary is receiving a disproportionate amount of attention from the press for the action that he has taken . |
| 15 | But it is receiving a large amount of money — in addition , it receives £61 million specifically for the new St. Pancras project . |
| 16 | He says that the main concern is that the mother is receiving the right amount of support . |
| 17 | To see that she is receiving the correct amount of occupational pension ( if any ) that is due to her . |