Example sentences of "amount of [noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 2 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 3 | There 's the same amount of work and you have more interest for your time off . ’ |
| 4 | The amount of money that we have to pay out , is er obviously detract from the education budget . |
| 5 | you are only entitled to spend the amount of money that you have put into the current account : If you spend more , you are spending the bank 's money . |
| 6 | ‘ Both sides saved a considerable amount of money and we have set an example which we hope others will follow . |
| 7 | ‘ But it is a substantial amount of money and we have tried the conventional means of reclaiming it without success . |
| 8 | There is no single requirement for capital but permissible risk exposure is governed for each GEMM by the amount of capital that it has . |
| 9 | Has there been any kind of surprise of the amount of support that you have got ? |
| 10 | I did n't know at that time what the content of the exhibition was because Sarah who organised it all had to write to lots of people and arrange the loans and you know it is fairly recently that we discovered for example the tate would lend , their pictures because its very rare that they do , erm , and , so we thought the next best thing , when I discovered the change of dates would be to have slides of the pictures that Sue was using , but erm oh dear then wonderful that Sue was using a another book and this term allocated and I was n't able to get the slides she picked , it was my fault that they 're not on slide due to the amount of time that we had to do this . |
| 11 | Now , you 'll notice the numbers in the brackets are some indication of the amount of time that we spent , the relative amount of time that we 've spent on the subjects . |
| 12 | Well , the thing I mainly notice when last week when Paul was home , not last week , the week before last I had Paul solidly at home , he moved himself entirely in lock , stock and barrel at the weekend , he was then with me waiting for his job and he went out every day and did little bit 's of shopping for me , got him from under my feet , saved me money , cos I was only buying what I absolutely needed , and the amount of time that I had , I mean I was able to go out for the whole day with Peggy on Wednesday , I was able to get food prepared and , admittedly I did n't manage to get as much done as I thought I was going to do , but then I think that 's with most people in life , |
| 13 | Jesus had so much to communicate to people in such a small amount of time as we 've realised yes you can look upon the miracle of the cure of the blind man 's sight . |
| 14 | We replaced them by closed stoves or by central heating boilers , which were so much more efficient that they essentially have used the same amount of fuel and we have simply become more comfortable in the process . |
| 15 | Her initial task will be to try and regularise for us all the amount of information that we have about what is sent to which categories of all the Christian Aid materials and then go on to hopefully ‘ plug the gaps ’ in church contacts . |
| 16 | It is unlikely that the House will be able to consider a Bill on this matter in the remainder of this Session , given the amount of business that we have to do . |
| 17 | ‘ He knew if he had said he was an alcoholic there would be an enormous amount of interest and he had to gauge when he could cope with that . ’ |