Example sentences of "amount of [noun] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What amount of space should be left at skirtings for a wood floor to expand ? |
| 2 | Erm Ryedale District , as can be seen from the table supplied by Greater York , has taken the largest proportion of the Greater York housing element over the past ten years , as regards the proposed level of future housing growth suggested for the Greater York area , the District Council supports the figure in the structure plan , the Greater York study identified a number of sites around the Greater York area which could accommodate further development without compromising greenbelt objectives or adversely affecting the character of the settlements surrounding York , and within that part of Southern Ryedale within the Greater York area the identified sites were , by and large , incorporated into the Southern Ryedale local plan , which has recently been through the public enquiry , the District Council does not believe that a larger amount of land could be identified within Southern Ryedale , without compromising greenbelt objectives . |
| 3 | By the end of our discussion , however , he was still prepared to go on thinking about an editorial involvement — I ( mis ? ) led him to believe the amount of work could be contained and he would be given good backing by OUP . |
| 4 | The alternative of deciding not to get involved in any but the most obvious and serious cases means that an enormous amount of damage can be done by each and every suffering individual both to himself or herself and to the Company while he or she progresses inexorably towards becoming a " serious case " . |
| 5 | A basic amount of money must be provided , and the Conservatives have put more money than ever in real terms into education . |
| 6 | Only a small amount of money could be taken out of the country because of post-war restrictions and , as this was a personal rather than a business trip , he was forced to prepare lectures from which he could earn income while he was away . |
| 7 | Well , not an awful lot really I mean , you know , you , you ca n't win , as I say , it just seemed wrong that you know when people ask being asked to make cuts and make these charges that that amount of money should be spent on something else |
| 8 | If , for example , workers are paid weekly , then a smaller amount of money will be required compared with a monthly system of payment ; a worker will require to hold money balances to meet his purchases only for a maximum of one week at any particular point in time . |
| 9 | This yield will fall in a period of inflation because a progressively larger amount of money will be needed to pay for the same quantity of goods and services . |
| 10 | Provided the stress on the web is applied gradually — as here , with tiny droplets slowly filling the sheet — a surprising amount of water can be retained . |
| 11 | People with higher savings , however , receive less : for every £250 of capital over £3,000 , individuals are deemed to be getting £1 a week income — so the actual amount of benefit will be reduced accordingly . |
| 12 | If , as is likely , NHS employees then seek and obtain wage increases in line with other increases in earnings , then a greater amount of resources will be needed to fund them . |
| 13 | If the product is at the introductory stage , a considerable amount of resources will be put into advertising . |
| 14 | A small amount of Italian may be included to give bulk in the first year . |
| 15 | Potatoes are cheap and a considerable amount of profit can be made with a little thought being put into the presentation . |
| 16 | Any amount of debt can be sold , but at the cost of driving interest rates uncomfortably high . |
| 17 | The carrying amount of debt should be increased by the finance cost in respect of the reporting period and reduced by payments made in respect of the debt in that period . |
| 18 | The direction of the outflow and the amount of turbulence can be adjusted by the positioning of the filter , though it should be mainly submerged to prevent burning out . |
| 19 | A large amount of memory could be saved if each occurrence of the same sequence of letters used the same set of nodes in the tree structure . |
| 20 | The amount of damages will be assessed later . |
| 21 | The IMS advised that , initially , a fairly simple system relating to one location and containing a limited amount of data should be set up . |
| 22 | The amount of caffeine should be reduced gradually , over a period of two to three weeks , to minimize withdrawal reactions . |
| 23 | Another mechanism by which the amount of repressor can be kept low in the nucleus involves the possibility that the repressor be confined in the cytoplasm ; we were thus prompted to test the nucleo-cytoplasmic ripartition of the X binding activity in Raji and RJ2.2.5 . |
| 24 | We feel that all doctors or other qualified individuals seeing a myocardial infarction for the first time should consider thrombolytic therapy as early as possible so that the maximum amount of myocardium can be salvaged . |
| 25 | Such considerations are important with respect to efficiency , as an alarming amount of time can be spent on the road as opposed to face to face with buyers . |
| 26 | Well that just er to be honest with you I mean after , after looking at it we , we could n't believe it really that , that amount of people could be affected by that , we obviously thought it would n't happen to us but after seeing that , at the age we are , I really think it 's a super plan and I 'm sure we 'll feel a lot better |
| 27 | A small amount of salt should be added to the water to see it really flourish . |
| 28 | A large amount of information can be gathered systematically in this way — data on techniques , personnel involved , subjects covered etc . |
| 29 | Sachs argued that since only a limited amount of information can be stored verbatim in memory , normally only the most recently heard sentence is remembered word for word . |
| 30 | The list of places with worthwhile examples is far too extensive for inclusion in anything other than a specialist guide to private collections , but a considerable amount of information can be obtained from local tourist authorities and both general and individual heritage guides . |