Example sentences of "been a [adj] amount [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , it is obvious that it can not be relied on until there has been a substantial amount of trading between the same parties . |
| 2 | But more recently there has been a limited amount of private sector involvement . |
| 3 | Considerable use has been made of actuality , especially in BBC regional weekly , review programmes , and there has been a reasonable amount of committee coverage . |
| 4 | ‘ The basic concept was that there should be a period of restraint to redress the balance of what has been a tremendous amount of development over the years , ’ he said , referring to the support the parish council had given to county and district while they were drawing up their local plans . |
| 5 | Nuclei — there 's been a tremendous amount of work done on nuclei . |
| 6 | He added : ‘ There has been a terrific amount of publicity about his sister . |
| 7 | Unlike previous years , however , the significance of the Iowa contests was reduced by the fact that neither of Bush 's two challengers ( Buchanan and former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke ) contested the caucus , whilst amongst the Democrats it had long been accepted that the contest would be won by Tom Harkin , one of the state 's representatives in the Senate , and so there had been a minimal amount of campaigning . |
| 8 | Our response to it was of course that er since the Post Office was re released from the Civil Service in nineteen sixty-nine to trustee , to pen the trustees , there 's been a minimum amount of trustees er I can recollect on those on the funds and we 've not had any problem . |
| 9 | Recently there has been a certain amount of paranoia from agents who have been tied to short-term agreements , and then have lost a band to the highest bidder just as the act is becoming successful . |
| 10 | There had therefore been a certain amount of premeditation . |
| 11 | When Charles obtained his post at Suffolk , there had been a certain amount of pressure from both sets of parents for them to get married . |
| 12 | There 's been a certain amount of feeling about it locally . ’ |
| 13 | There has also been a certain amount of experimental work by linguists and psychologists which supports the hypothesis that for current speakers of English , generic masculines are interpreted as masculine rather than generic — though it has to be said the results of this work are not entirely clear-cut , except perhaps in the case of generic man . |
| 14 | In the six years since the Mulla Committee 's report , there has been a certain amount of further progress , including increases in the prison budget , some new instructions from the central government to the states , and the setting up of a small policy section within the Ministry of Home Affairs to consider the implementation of the recommendations . |
| 15 | Even at the height of the strike movement of the 1890s there had been a certain amount of friction between workers and intelligentsia . |
| 16 | But there had been a certain amount of argument with the police and one National Socialist was arrested for obstructing the footway . |
| 17 | There had been a certain amount of bustle about it , but you could hardly have a journey — any journey — without a bit of bustle . |
| 18 | ‘ My mother felt that Suzie would be more inclined to listen to me because there had been a certain amount of friction between the two of them recently . ’ |
| 19 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 20 | Recently there has been a large amount of attention ( both media and scientific ) directed towards bathing in seawater with a number of studies conducted around the UK coastline . |
| 21 | Since this condemnation of research opportunity , few studies have penetrated deeply beneath the sensitive skin of ‘ police culture ’ , and even though Chatterton in his notes to my thesis argued there has been a considerable amount of ‘ participant police research ’ , I would question whether many of these inquiries achieved the finer grain and detail' of the insider 's account , for they can never really know or tell if they have been excluded from the inner workings of police practice or prevented from gaining access to the hidden realities ‘ contained inside the heads of the constables ’ . |
| 22 | Whilst , over the years , there has been a considerable amount of work on costing such flows , a more important question from the point of view of planning is the fact that the home ( exporting ) authority is compulsorily required to pay for such flows whilst having no control over them ( Brazier , 1986 & 1987 ; Mullen , 1986 ) . |
| 23 | Comparative analysis suggests that there has been a considerable amount of divergence of evolution in the cortices of different mammalian lines . |
| 24 | Over the last 4–5 years there has been a considerable amount of activity in the colony due to the expiry of the lease in 1997 when the land on which the colony has been built reverts back to its previous owner the Republic of China . |
| 25 | Which , of course , momentarily , it did : ‘ Two weeks , ’ she boldly and brightly continued , breaking the trance like stillness with a frisky movement of her head and braceleted right arm , ‘ yes , two weeks , in Kyoto and Osaka , it should be quite fascinating , quite an opportunity to see a completely different culture , of course it relates to our own work at the Institute in a very particular way , it seems that there has been a considerable amount of research done in the department we are visiting on the problems of adoption and stepparents . |
| 26 | As suggested in the last chapter , there has been a considerable amount of conflict in recent years about the autonomy of these authorities as ‘ policy makers ’ . |
| 27 | Please pass on my congratulations to the Editor and his team for what must have been a considerable amount of sustained commitment , in producing such a high quality publication for the benefit of all members and the industry in general . ’ |
| 28 | Over the last few years , there has been a considerable amount of interest regarding the role of joint consultation in British Industrial Relations . |
| 29 | To date there has been a considerable amount of research into the organisational and employee implications of introducing new technology . |
| 30 | For many years there has been a considerable amount of interest in the extent to which industrial relations play a significant role in explaining variations in economic performance . |