Example sentences of "a [adj] amount [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | which needs to be deducted from the hundred and ten point two seven which gives you a re a possible alloca a possible amount of land to come forward in the structure plan period of seventy seven point six seven , off which to make the figures round properly you need to take another ten , for the retail element if that became I five land which could theoretically give you a figure of sixty seven point six seven . |
| 2 | I 'm sure he was under a terrific amount of both metabolic and emotional stress . |
| 3 | There is a terrific amount of power in the Duncan Distortion and here it is being put to the best possible use . |
| 4 | He added : ‘ There has been a terrific amount of publicity about his sister . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's not a terrific amount of talent around anyway . |
| 6 | You 're really getting through a terrific amount of stuff and you keep asking for more it 's great . |
| 7 | Er as you got older of course you got different meals , but as youngsters we ate a terrific amount of bread and jam . |
| 8 | He 's going to need a terrific amount of energy , and he 's going to need it quickly , because he 's got to deal with this very dangerous situation that he finds himself in . |
| 9 | And then it 's sanded down you 'd use a terrific amount of sandpaper . |
| 10 | It closes off the street half way and you know George Street is a commercial street erm delivery lorries will go up and not know where to turn round and come back or what entrance or exit they can use , and also because traffic ca n't use it it will simply put a terrific amount on another of the main streets , namely Beaumont Street . |
| 11 | The ‘ concentration of the spirit ’ enabled this solitary youth to achieve a prodigious amount of literary self-education . |
| 12 | They consumed a prodigious amount of fuel , logs which had to be carted in by the barrow-load , stacked to dry , and fed frequently into the ravenous , red-hot maw of the burner . |
| 13 | Little acts of kindness which required the body 's co-operation , such as helping with the washing-up after a good meal , demanded a prodigious amount of persuasion ; while a really big thing , like finishing Student Cross , just met with stubborn resistance . |
| 14 | William Carey had achieved a prodigious amount in many different spheres : evangelism , translation work , social reform , education , co-operation with other Protestant missionaries , botany — the list goes on and on . |
| 15 | On the whole , these collections receive a low amount of use , particularly if the use of short loan collections is excluded from consideration . |
| 16 | So at the end of the day you 'll get a total amount of er years and days times the average salary and that divided by eighty . |
| 17 | In consideration of your agreeing to make an offer , on behalf of our customer , [ client name ] for the whole of the issued share capital of a company known to both of us under the code name [ ] ' , we , [ name of Bank ] London Branch , [ address of Bank ] , hereby guarantee that our customer , [ client name ] have available to them funds up to a total amount of £ [ ] . |
| 18 | A total amount of 15 mg protein was coupled to 0.6 g ( dry weight ) CNBr-activated Sepharose 4B according to the instructions of the manufacturer . |
| 19 | A total amount of 15 mg enterocyte protein was coupled to 0.6 g ( dry weight ) CNBr-activated Sepharose 4B as described above . |
| 20 | You 've got a total income coming in , er a total amount of benefit there of a hundred and three pounds thirty for this family . |
| 21 | You can either do it per pound or you can do a total amount in the end |
| 22 | Caterham tends to compete , he says , with the ‘ hot hatches ’ such as the Golf GTI , a huge surprise considering that a Golf has four comfortable seats and can carry a respectable amount of luggage while the Seven arrives at a buyer 's door in several cardboard boxes , has two seats , no doors or luggage space to speak of and , in the words of one reviewer , ‘ is likely to blow your teeth out at much over 80 mph ’ . |
| 23 | Sometimes loan agreements do not state a specific amount for the payments : instead they include a formula to be used for their calculation . |
| 24 | Within our group of 19 authorities who spent over £5,000 , only one did not formally allocate a specific amount of money for training , and that one authority was still able to be very specific about the amount estimated for 1984/5 ( £6,000 ) , though not formally budgeted . |
| 25 | Whereas a wrongful dismissal action covers a specific amount of wages , a claim for unfair dismissal covers general compensation by way of damages in respect of an employee 's dismissal . |
| 26 | The Cash on Delivery facility provides you with a means of collecting a specific amount of money — up to a maximum invoice value of £350 — upon delivery of the parcel . |
| 27 | These will vary from Compact to Compact but you will be expected to show : a ) that your attendance and punctuality have been consistently good , b ) that you can work reliably at school , c ) that you have spent a specific amount of time on Work Experience , d ) that you have a positive sense of responsibility to your school and the wider community . |
| 28 | In such a situation it may be appropriate to think of restricting development of some SBUs — not to a specific amount of investment each year , but to a projected rate of development consistent with internal funds generated by the whole company over a period of years . |
| 29 | Suggested Compromises : The Purchaser to have the right of rescission for breaches which are ‘ so material ’ that they effectively change the nature of what the Purchaser thought it was acquiring ; any such compromise should ideally specify the measure of materiality either by reference to a specific amount of money or a percentage of the value of the business to be acquired although this may be felt to be impossible to quantify ; or |
| 30 | Geoffrey Moorhouse uses Bury as his pivot : he explores it fact by fact , family by family ; this little town in the moors bore a hideous amount of the slaughter in the Dardanelles , no matter what your Australian neighbour may tell you as he leans on the bar and his legend . |