Example sentences of "on the [adj] amount of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 However , no agreement was reached on the total amount of assistance , estimated by the USA to be around $14,000 million but by the EC as no more than $9,000 million .
2 Income tax is not collected on the total amount of income .
3 If you enjoy wine or gin or beer and care about your health , you 'll probably want to keep a check on the total amount of alcohol you 're taking .
4 This is because the gonococcus rapidly perishes outside the human body , being dependent on the correct amount of warmth and moisture .
5 This may be charged on the actual amount of water you use or a percentage of it , or in some areas it may be based on the rateable value of your home .
6 At the end of the exercise have a short period of conversation while you concentrate on the fingertips on your larynx and on feeling the right degree of voice volume , your friend keeping check for you on the right amount of voice volume and indicating if it becomes too loud or too quiet .
7 An income beneficiary will also only be taxable on the net amount of income available after deduction of any income which has been applied to meet trust expenses on capital account , and , when the income account is made good , that income will become taxable as income of the beneficiary .
8 It should also be noted that in determining the amount of income available up to the end of any year one looks at the aggregate amount of the income arising under the settlement in that year and in any previous year which has not been distributed and one deducts an amount equal to tax at the rate applicable to trusts on the aggregate amount of income , arising under the settlement in the year of payment and any previous year , which has not been distributed .
9 Having fleshed out the frames of the characters , Whitaker virtually gave Coburn a free hand in his teleplay , needing to concentrate instead on the vast amount of work involved in reshaping the series with the loss or deferment of so many storylines .
10 There is a restriction on the maximum amount of compensation which a magistrates ' court may order ( currently £2,000 ) which has serious implications where there are other offences to be taken into account .
11 Because part of the problem is that there are too many people in agriculture and if you can reduce the population threshold allowed , right , wages will virtually rise , because labour productivity will rise because there is less labour on the same amount of land .
12 Phil Farrand says that he 's spent the last two years building the car and has put hours of work into it … his machine runs on the same amount of power that drives a toaster or a hair dryer so much for ceremony … with the sun blazing down its time to race south … the track is the main Stewart Highway …
13 Income tax is paid directly to the Exchequer by the individual taxpayer ( mainly through Pay As You Earn — PAYE ) , on the full amount of income from employment and investment in the fiscal year .
14 This is because if it is not reserved as rent , the Stamp Office take the view that the application of the " contingency principle " means that stamp duty is payable on the full amount of VAT which may become payable over the whole term of the lease .
15 Already in my own LEA there are plans for visual arts teachers to explore and establish assessment guidelines , and to capitalize on the considerable amount of curriculum development work that has occurred over recent years .
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