Example sentences of "[vb infin] [art] [adj] amount of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the [ draft ] FRS requires appropriations of profit over and above the dividends payable to be made in some circumstances in respect of non-equity shares it does not affect the total amount of distributable profits . |
| 2 | Mr Deputy Speaker , no I did not know the exact amount of the recommendation but I of course assumed there was likely to be some pay increase and I have made an increase in grant which I am just about to explain to the house which will go some way to meet the requirements of local authorities and there are other assets and resources they have er which I will illustrate later on in my speech . |
| 3 | I tell you what I will buy the minimum amount of drink , i.e. a twenty four pack and some wine , and do the mulled wine and everybody else can bring a bottle or some food . |
| 4 | A given budget will buy the maximum amount of QALYs if resources are spent on those aspects of care with the least cost per QALY . |
| 5 | Local authorities will need a substantial amount of time to ensure that their information technology is correct and is in place to deal with the council tax . |
| 6 | If you use this method you will need a generous amount of fabric , about three times the width of the wall . |
| 7 | This walk , by the way , although it 's only short , does involve a bit of scrambling which , though hardly dangerous , does need a fair amount of agility — fit grannies and grandads would make it , overweight VAT inspectors with beer bellies would n't . |
| 8 | A large machine like Penry Vaughan 's body must need a fair amount of fuel to keep it running efficiently . |
| 9 | In order to successfully write assembler language programs for the Z88 you will need a considerable amount of technical information about the machine . |
| 10 | If you wish to write more than the simplest assembler code programs for the Z88 , you will need a considerable amount of technical information about the machine . |
| 11 | Any conversation with elderly people may include a certain amount of guilt or recrimination about the past . |
| 12 | Expected to comprise some 3,000 lots , the art , accumulated in the late 1950s and 1960s , will include a significant amount of good quality if not exactly highly refined eighteenth-century French furniture . |
| 13 | I foresee that this statement will excite a certain amount of comment . |
| 14 | These Stax headphones , with the dipole-like transducers , do introduce a small amount of round-the-head aural crosstalk which partly solves the problem . |
| 15 | The review model is the standard , no-frills version and although the speaker cabinets are quite a size for single twelves , they 'll guarantee a significant amount of stereo spread . |
| 16 | Focused effort and determination can yield a surprising amount of information but the motivation has to he high . |
| 17 | to recall and display a limited amount of accurate and relevant historical knowledge ; to show a basic understanding of the historical concepts of cause and consequence , continuity and change , sufficiently supported by obvious examples ; to identify and list differences and similarities . |
| 18 | This claim would need an enormous amount of evidence to substantiate it , but it does illustrate very clearly a particular view about the structures that a certain type of structuralism deals with : namely , that they actually exist , and that the task of structuralist sciences is to uncover them . |
| 19 | The balance sheet should show the total amount of shareholders ' funds and an analysis of shareholders ' funds between the amount attributable to equity interests and the amount attributable to non-equity interests . |
| 20 | IT 'S ONE of the ancient myths of conservatories that they must necessarily trap the maximum amount of sunlight . |
| 21 | Fourth , many participants frankly admitted that they had very low expectations at the outset : specifically that the course was simply designed to punish them , in return for which they would give the minimum amount of attention possible . |
| 22 | If properly encouraged , they could carry the small amount of pollen necessary for fertilisation and place it on the exact spot in the female flower where it was required . |
| 23 | We can also send a limited amount of information by fax if required . |
| 24 | However , both types of ‘ Internal Market ’ would generate a considerable amount of activity in billing , payment and verification which , even in the computer age , would require vastly increased numbers of administrative and clerical staff . |
| 25 | The big , the big advantage Chair , and one of the reasons that it appeals to us to , to go along with Age Concern on this is that , as you know , the area of activity in terms of day centre provision in which they are very active , is one whereby on the current grant mechanisms for community care , and our need to spend eighty five percent in the voluntary and independent sector , whilst they were directly employed by us , we could n't divert a substantial amount of that money in their direction if they wished to develop services . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In some cases , however , estate agents will do a certain amount of advertising free of charge . |
| 28 | But they still did do a certain amount of er the stock in trade course the bins for g for transporting stuff in and all like that . |
| 29 | Since no scientist was prepared to sit down and do a comparable amount of research in order to demolish a theory which seemed so patently to be a load of rubbish , they all simply cried ‘ Rubbish ! ’ and stamped their feet . |
| 30 | See you should do a fair amount of . |