Example sentences of "[adj] amount [prep] [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know if this was my business , I would have budgeted for this amount of advertising to be ab I mean you ca n't sit it by getting at home er you ca n't get it by sitting at home . |
| 2 | This of course is something I was aware of having witnessed a news conference with Miss Graf in mid-week , in which she very politely criticised her absent rivals saying that none of the top ranked players needed the vast amounts of money to be gained by playing in lucrative exhibition events . |
| 3 | The differing amount of solution to be made up gives flexibility for each patients needs and infers that the remedy action is different ( weaker ) in its ‘ intensity ’ the more diluted the original granule becomes . |
| 4 | Because of the large amount of information to be displayed in an adequate route map , there is no hope of one that is not complex . |
| 5 | The proximity of a market , the feasibility of holding the animal for ransom , the likely amount of profit to be earned , the value of the animal to thieves if kept for personal use or consumption , and the likelihood of discovery and punishment were among the considerations which were taken into account . |
| 6 | Sometimes materials are just not available or too expensive to afford , but often curriculum panels , drawing on experiences from college demonstration schools and materially rich urban contexts , place far too great reliance on the collection and use of ‘ waste ’ materials or require large amounts of apparatus to be made by teachers . |
| 7 | Several of the most recent supermergers have seen one company borrow large amounts in order to be able to afford to acquire another company . |
| 8 | My father left Kirsty a considerable amount of money to be held in trust until she reaches eighteen … ’ |
| 9 | Mr Ievers said , however : ‘ There is still a considerable amount of work to be done before schools can report to parents using the levels and attainment targets used in assessment of children introduced as a pilot project only very recently . |
| 10 | The boilers to raise the necessary steam were of ‘ Lancashire ’ type , the characteristics of which enable a small amount of steam to be supplied over long periods with a minimum of attention , which was the type of duty envisaged for this plant . |
| 11 | As the scope of foreign policy expanded to embrace areas hitherto regarded as unimportant or completely ignored , and as the geographical scope of the diplomatic network widened , the sheer amount of business to be handled grew correspondingly . |
| 12 | The increasing amount of business to be handled meant that more and more decisions were now taken by officials , even merely middle-ranking ones : it was no longer possible for almost every question to go to the minister himself for final decision , as had hitherto been normal . |
| 13 | It was long thought that a mere redistribution of duties without any reduction in the total number of employees required or the total amount of work to be done did not amount to redundancy . |
| 14 | Many of us who represent the valleys would like the same amount of money to be spent on matters other than the bay , which has no God-given right to it . |
| 15 | With two years before the opening of World Cup ‘ 94 there is an immense amount of work to be done . |
| 16 | ‘ There 's just an immense amount of work to be done , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Because teaching RE effectively depends upon understanding the nature of RE and developing those skills and attitudes essential to it , there is a certain amount of theory to be mastered . |
| 18 | Presumably this might happen due to the greater amount of material to be eroded before a cut off could occur . |
| 19 | A surprising amount of work to be found in the island does , however , show their influence . |
| 20 | The Hard Copy manager should supply two parameters for this keyword : the name of the hard copy directory and the maximum amount of space to be used , in that order . |
| 21 | I assure groups that have contacted me and which are concerned about over-regulation that I want a minimum of regulation and the maximum amount of discretion to be given to local authorities . |