Example sentences of "amount [prep] [noun sg] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Materiality is the monetary amount of misstatement which would affect the user of an account ; the amount is a matter of judgement depending on the circumstances of the case . |
| 2 | With that amount of choice you may need a helping hand . |
| 3 | Do you , do you happen to know , will this service give benefit advice as well , because the , the budget which introduced a , an allowance of a kind for , for child care , is actually quite complicated , and , and it 's kind of er , an amount of income which can be disallowed before Family Credits are calculated and it , it , it involves a new kind of benefits trap as well , and I can see people needing quite a lot of advice about how to get it , and , and when not to get it and so on . |
| 4 | They ( the trust expenses ) do , however , under general principles reduce the amount of income which can be taxed upon the beneficiary ( Murray v IRC ( 1926 ) 11 TC 133 and MacFarlane v IRC ( 1929 ) 14 TC 532 ) . |
| 5 | Oriental rugs need room to breathe , and unless they are given the right amount of space they can either be swamped by the surrounding decor or become so overpowering that they detract from everything else in the room . |
| 6 | Also the grass grows for only a short-season , and the amount of hay which can be cut and dried varies from one year to the next . |
| 7 | A major restriction in the cementation brass-making process was the limited amount of zinc which could be introduced into the alloy . |
| 8 | The official letter giving the amount of grant we would receive and the conditions of the grant had yet to be received by the Society . |
| 9 | After defeats against Italy , Ireland and France , the Scots have made sweeping changes for their final encounter , prospects for which will revolve around the amount of ball they can supply for a back division sure to be enlivened by the presence of will-o-the-wisp stand-off , Derrick Lee . |
| 10 | Julie Oldfield ( from the MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ) phoned : I have faxed her a copy of Dinamation 's letter for information and confirmed shoot times at 1630 to 1730 on Wednesday ; she was worried about the amount of equipment you might be bringing in 4 vehicles — you said you would have a camera and one light . |
| 11 | It has only been met twice this year , the budget is quite small for the amount of work we can continue to do is quite small er it 's quite possible that it would only need to meet once a year in future so it would be sensible to combine it with other non-policy and traffic matters as a working party . |
| 12 | Were you to decrease or increase those staffing levels , then obviously that affects the amount of work you can carry out . |
| 13 | ‘ The government is giving this project every conceivable support because of the enormous amount of work it would provide not just for Cleveland but for many other British companies . |
| 14 | At the efficient size S * your total cost is the area OAES&SUP * ; and this is the total amount of compensation you will be paid . |
| 15 | and that was for that , then I had a letter back to say that we were having , there was too much money coming in a week for me to draw unemployment and then they , then a few days later I had this double page letter a big one that says you are entitled to no prescription help , X amount of pounds after erm eighty pounds per glasses you are responsible for the first eighty pound , we say that you can afford to pay that , so much on your teeth , if you 're visiting somebody in prison then you exceed a certain amount of mileage you can only get it if you exceed more than twenty five pound incurring , then I thought oh blow it , forget it , and I never done it , that all come to then , that 's why I wanted a ten of your wage , wage slips you remember now ? |
| 16 | The English Court of Appeal has given guidelines on sentencing and the amount of discount which may be allowed in appropriate cases . |
| 17 | We were giggling at each other 's pictures and I started to remember the amount of fun we used to have together . |
| 18 | For the rest , there is the drab functionality of the place , the bureaucracy , the tatty carpets , a vast , amorphous organization given form by regulations which even prescribe the amount of money which may be claimed for riding a bicycle on official duty . |
| 19 | British Petroleum South Africa underwrote the cost of the tour , so no material loss was incurred , but either way the action deprived the West Indian Board coffers of a large amount of money which would have been ploughed back into very necessary ground and youth development in the region . |
| 20 | There was no limit to the amount of money which could be used during any given assignment but at the end of it each operative had to account to Kolchinsky for his or her expenses in tabular form , supplying the relevant chits to back up the figurework . |
| 21 | It used to be the case that one had to find a property that one wanted to buy first and then apply for a mortgage , but some organisations will now provide a mortgage guarantee document , that is to say an assurance of the amount of money they will lend you , before you start looking for a property . |
| 22 | As self-governing bodies , local education authorities are , by and large , free to decide for themselves the amount of money they will spend on education . |
| 23 | Subsequently the government ‘ capped ’ the amount of money it would pay in private care fees . |
| 24 | Powell had no argument with the principle of starting a magazine , or even over the amount of money it would cost , but he felt that Branson was treading on sensitive political ground in attempting to take advantage of somebody else 's industrial dispute . |
| 25 | But , considering the amount of money you may lay out , buying Koi can also be a risky business . |
| 26 | Either way , the amount of money you can borrow will be based , if you are at work , upon a multiple of your earnings — usually two-and-a-half to three times the value of your gross earnings per year . |
| 27 | If you invested a pound on a horse , then the amount of money you 'd expect to get back would depend on the odds that that horse was offered at , but if you confined yourself to horses that had a reasonable chance of winning , say , the sort of horses that tend to be offered at odds of , say , six or seven to one or better , then your average rate of return might be nearer ninety per cent than thirty per cent , so putting it one way betting a pound a week on the horses is a slower way of losing your money than betting a pound a week on football pools , but football pools gives you a much greater chance of winning an absolutely astonishing sum of money . |
| 28 | So have you any target for the amount of money you 'd like to raise ? |
| 29 | What you pack apart from the camcorder itself depends on the kind of holiday you are planning and the amount of luggage you can reasonably handle . |
| 30 | ‘ No one had ever realized the amount of water we would need , ’ he added . |