Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] amount " in BNC.

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1 Depending the amount of drying concerned actually alters the composition of some salts .
2 The normal method of recovering the amount due is by application to the proper financial officer of the council , on the appropriate form of application as set out in the Regulations .
3 CHARITIES are losing money not so much because of the practice of suggesting the amount of donations but because they impose such high postal charges on the goods they offer .
4 Simple sieving , on its own , is obviously nowhere near capable of generating the amount of order in a living thing .
5 So yet again , the budget was reflecting the amount of money necessary to maintain existing services .
6 The second thing to consider is that if you are eating the amount you say , then this may be too much .
7 The point Herrnstein 's ‘ anti-hereditarians ’ are trying to make deals , not with the obvious genetic roots of an individual 's intelligence , but , first , the exact meaning of this thing we call ‘ intelligence ’ and , secondly , the impossibility of separating and then quantifying the amount of intelligence which is inherited and the amount which is subject to change .
8 Taxation will be the normal means of quantifying the amount of the costs that can be retained .
9 I mean , seeing the amount of kids that do go out there , and the state of the changing rooms that they are using at the moment , I , I think it 's really degrading .
10 EC Evans-Lombe QC , sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge , referred to the ‘ relevant ’ part of s 349(1) : ‘ … the person by or through whom any payment … is made shall , on making the payment , deduct out of it a sum representing the amount of income thereon ’ .
11 In retaliation for the economic blockade of Slovenia imposed by Serbia at the beginning of December 1989 [ see p. 37131 ] , the Slovene government on Feb. 22 decided to withhold payment of 15 per cent of the republic 's contribution to the federal budget , representing the amount designated for subsidies to the Serbian economy .
12 It provides detailed monthly reports and annual summaries itemising the amount overcharged , or if appropriate , undercharged .
13 The exploration was pursued by statistical analysis relating the amount of manufacturing change ( the phenomenon to be explained ) to characteristics of areas which it was hypothesized might explain the change .
14 A figure of about 500,000 was calculated after establishing the amount of shoeing steel produced for local consumption by British Steel and dividing by an average of four new sets a year .
15 It can be surprising the amount of pressure a little wet concrete puts on shuttering .
16 Ignorance of the union world was underlined early on by a detailed target list itemizing the amount sought from each union .
17 Erm , if they start to have an illness and it develops we 'll obviously be talking to their doctor , I mean if it 's apparent that they 're blind on the form , well then , obviously we would looking the amount we paid , or , or , erm , basically come to some agreement on that .
18 Three outfits costing an amount of money that did n't bear thinking about , but which were nevertheless perfect .
19 " So how can I be of assistance to you ? " she asked , fixing a professional smile to her face , the same smile she used when dealing with difficult customers or when fixing the amount to paid out in bribes .
20 Relevant state benefits for which the plaintiff must give credit should still be estimated and deducted when fixing the amount to be paid into court before a certificate is received as the plaintiff will be entitled to take out the whole amount in court and the defendant remains liable to reimburse the Secretary of State .
21 The demand was for £1,456-odd , comprising the amount of the two bills plus £146 in respect of the preparation and service of the statutory demand .
22 The Corporation may reinstate repair or replace any insured property lost or damaged instead of paying the amount of the loss or damage and may join with other Insurers in so doing .
23 ‘ The drop represents halving the amount of sound energy . ’
24 So , that now I am releasing the amount of memory you could actually use .
25 The loop features a mono send and stereo return sockets ( left is mono ) with a loop attenuation switch to drop the signal from 0 to -20dB , and something I really like : a rotary mix/dry pot for balancing the amount of effected signal to the main , or dry signal .
26 The method seems quite popular , and usually seems to reflect the pattern of use whilst seriously underestimating the amount .
27 This seems to be the way it is with men and women ; buckets of water from a well , one drawing deep while the other is empty , and so on , as if there is a physical law governing the amount of emotional nourishment available to a couple .
28 Chatto has been researching the amount of space given by newspapers to its paperback originals , which it introduced last year .
29 Cats are normally extremely efficient at regulating the amount of food they take in .
30 Central government attempts to control local authorities by : a ) carefully regulating the amount of money which they can spend locally , and b ) scrutinizing the way in which money is actually spent .
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