Example sentences of "the amount [prep] [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither the buildings of Parliament nor the members were in serious danger from the amount of gunpowder to be used . |
| 2 | Other matters , such as the amount of capital to be subscribed by each contributing country , and the eligibility of the Soviet Union for funding , were left until a further meeting due on March 10-11 . |
| 3 | One of the major environmental decisions surrounds the target for the amount of electricity to be generated from renewable sources by the year 2000 , which is to be increased by 50 per cent to 1,500 megawatts . |
| 4 | The more varied or diversified the business of the client , and the larger the amount of insurance to be placed , the more likely it is that he will look around the market for himself in order to obtain the best terms . |
| 5 | The report highlights three issues : the amount of money to be transferred from the budget of the Department of Social Security ; the way in which housing benefit will be calculated after 1993 ; and the division of responsibility between the health authorities and the local social service departments . |
| 6 | The public 's ideas for providing full employment were coloured by the success of wartime planning , but they remained largely the notions of the years before the war , as Table 1 , compiled immediately following the publication of the Beveridge report in December 1942 , shows : a public works programme was mentioned four times as frequently as socialism , which was less popular than solutions based on reducing the amount of work to be done by individuals , and in the number wanting work . |
| 7 | In early July , the Senate approved a bilateral accord with the USA instructing a commission of jurists , to be designated by both countries , to rule on the amount of compensation to be paid by the Chilean government to the families of Letelier and his secretary Ronni Moffitt who was murdered with him . |
| 8 | For instance , in Re Hammond and Waterton ( 1890 ) 62 LT 808 , arbitrators were designated by the parties ' agreement to assess the amount of compensation to be paid by an outgoing tenant of a market garden to his landlord . |
| 9 | Another powerful financial weapon is the annual decision made by the government on the amount of grant to be given to local authorities to aid current expenditure . |
| 10 | From this declaration Edward and his officers knew the amount of relief to be levied from Lesparre , the amount of military service owed and the status of the tenures . |
| 11 | The most convincing answer is that Truman was intent primarily upon terminating the Pacific conflict speedily so as to save American lives but that he was interested simultaneously in strengthening American interests vis-à-vis Russia , which included restricting the amount of territory to be occupied by the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | If altitude is changed then make a correction at a rate not exceeding twice the amount of height to be changed . |
| 13 | A report from the all-party Energy Select Committee of the House of Commons urges the government to set " challenging " targets for the amount of energy to be generated by renewable sources by the year 2000 . |
| 14 | It will be necessary to decide on the amount of resource to be invested in management development , and what mechanism should be used to allocate these resources . |
| 15 | I have said ( in Chapter 2 ) that one can calculate the rate of protein synthesis by injecting a radioactively labelled amino acid into the bloodstream and measuring the amount of radioactivity to be found in the protein of particular brain regions after a given time . |
| 16 | The amount of time to be spent on learning about tone languages should depend to some extent on your background . |
| 17 | But the Law Lords unanimously decided that he was obliged to have regard only to ‘ material considerations ’ and that the amount of weight to be given to these was a matter for his judgment . |
| 18 | Patients or relatives may attempt to manipulate the therapist into compromising on issues such as the amount of weight to be regained or the kinds of food to be eaten . |
| 19 | Therefore it may be advantageous to sole traders or partners whose incomes from the business mean that they are taxed under Schedule D at a higher rate to convert the business into a company to minimize the amount of tax to be paid out of the profits made . |
| 20 | As we pointed out in the last chapter , not only is the amount of redistribution to be undertaken by the government a pure value judgement on which different individuals and different political parties will disagree , but there is an inevitable trade-off between the competing objectives of efficiency and equity . |
| 21 | A second way of dealing with the amount of information to be specified in a conditional jump instruction is to separate the test and the jump into two different instructions , and to provide a short processor register to communicate between the two instructions . |
| 22 | Since the amount of information to be conveyed remains much the same this means that the signal-to-noise ratio will be worse . |
| 23 | The first is the amounts of money to be made in the business . |